The Outsiders: Chapter One
Test your knowledge of Chapter One of S.E. Hinton's classic novel. Some questions are a little tricky.
Quiz created by: Andrea
1. In the first paragraph, Ponyboy says he was thinking about a ride home and what actor?
(#) James Dean
(#) Paul Newman
(#) Humphrey Bogart
(#) James Stewart
2. Ponyboy usually dislikes people with what eye color?
(#) brown
(#) blue
(#) gray
(#) green
3. What is Two-Bit's real name?
(#) Charlie
(#) Keith
(#) Louis
(#) Jerry
4. Which of his brothers does Ponyboy say looks like a movie star?
(#) Sodapop
(#) Darry
(#) Dallas
(#) Keith
5. Who does Ponyboy say treats him a like a tagalong kid?
(#) Dallas
(#) Darry
(#) Steve
(#) Sodapop
6. Which of Ponyboy's friends is still a junior in high school at 18 and a half?
(#) Sodapop
(#) Two-Bit
(#) Steve
(#) Johnny
7. Who does Ponyboy think is "the real character" of the gang?
(#) Two-Bit
(#) Steve
(#) Johnny
(#) Dallas
8. Who reminds Ponyboy of "a puppy that's been kicked too many times"?
(#) Johnny
(#) Sodapop
(#) Two-Bit
(#) Dallas
9. How did Dallas acquire the ring he always wears?
(#) He beat up a drunk senior and stole his ring.
(#) It belonged to his dead father.
(#) He stole it from a jewelry store in New York.
(#) He saved up the money he earned at the DX to buy it.
10. What, according to Ponyboy, are Two-Bit's main hobbies?
(#) drinking booze and stealing things from stores
(#) football and carpentry
(#) saying dirty things to girls and beating up Socs
(#) racing cars and sleeping
11. What are the names of Sodapop and Steve's girlfriends, respectively?
(#) Cherry and Marcia
(#) Janet and Lucy
(#) Sandy and Evie
(#) Sylvia and Sara
12. What is Dallas's part-time job?
(#) busboy at The Dingo
(#) He doesn't have a part-time job.
(#) jockeying for the Slash J
(#) running the projector at the movies
13. Whose place is Ponyboy not to be caught within 10 miles of?
(#) Steve's
(#) Buck Merril's
(#) Dallas's
(#) Johnny's
14. Where does Dallas ask Ponyboy and Johnny to go with him?
(#) The Nightly Double
(#) the junior prom
(#) The Dingo
(#) one of Buck's parties
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