The Outsiders Review Game
Rules of Trashketball Each table consists of a team. A new person will answer a question each round. You will have 30-60 seconds to discuss the answer to a question with your team. If it is your turn, you will then immediately answer the question. If you are correct, your team will get 1 point for the correct answer. Your team will also get the opportunity to shoot a ball into the trashcan from a 1, 2, or 3 point line. If the shot is made, that team gets extra-credit.
Who Am I? I am the author of The Outsiders.
S. E. Hinton
Who am I? I am a wisecracker; I can’t stop making funny remarks or jokes all of the time.
Two bit
Who Am I? I killed Bob in self defense.
Johnny
Who Am I? I killed Dally.
The police
Who Am I? I am known for my “firey” red hair. I can hold my own in a conversation with anyone. I am a “spy” for the Greasers.
Cherry
Who am I? I am very well liked by most people. I get away with everything. When I get in trouble, my parents blame themselves. I wish that someone would tell me, “No!”
Bob
Who Am I? I constantly feel as if I am in the middle of a tug of war. I am always caught between my two brother’s fighting. I’ve been described as “movie star handsome.”
Soda Pop
Who Am I? I am Soda’s best buddy since grade school; I am really good with cars.
Steve
Who Am I? I hate the world. I am tougher than everyone else. I’ve been in and out of jail.
Dally
Who Am I? I am the “pet” of the gang. I am like a puppy that has been kicked too many times.
Johnny
Who Am I? I am not going to the rumble because it won’t do any good. I realize that fighting doesn’t change anything.
Randy
Who Am I? I have more worries than somebody my age ought to. I work during the day as a roofer.
Darry
Who Am I? I am a loner; I get good grades, but I don’t always use my head. I get into a lot of trouble with my friend when I run away during the night.
Ponyboy
Figurative Language – What Am I? A ray of gold touched the hills.
Personification
Literary Device – What Am I? Pony’s dream came true---he went to the country.
Irony
Figurative Language – What Am I? Sweat ran down my face and back.
Personification
Figurative Language – What Am I? The horizon was a thin golden line.
Metaphor
Figurative Language – What Am I? He had…ears like a lynx.
Simile
Figurative Language – What Am I? So dawn goes down to day. 1 sound device and 1 figurative device Must get both answers.
Alliteration Paradox
Figurative Language – What Am I? Everything held its breath.
Personification
Figurative Language (sound device) – What Am I? The line, "Her hardest hue to hold,” from “Nothing Gold Can Stay” is an example of ______________________.
Alliteration
Figurative Language – What Am I? “So, I sat there like a bump on a log.” (Ponyboy)
Simile or idiom
Figurative Language – What Am I? “Johnny was a candle with the flame gone out.”
Metaphor
Figurative Language – What Am I? “The fire reached out and grabbed Johnny’s jacket.”
Personification
Figurative Language – What Am I? He’s got eyes that are like two pieces of pale blue- green ice.
Simile
Figurative Language – What Am I? "Darry didn't deserve to work like an old man when he was only twenty."
Simile
Literary Device What does the sunset symbolize?
Unity It shows that even though there are differences between the Greasers and the Socs, they are still alike or the same in some ways.
Trivia What poem does Ponyboy quote by Robert Frost?
“Nothing Gold Can Stay”
Trivia What is the Curtis boys’ favorite breakfast food?
Chocolate cake
Trivia Give an an example of when Johnny did not feel extremely scared or defeated.
When he saved the children from the fire
Trivia What book did Ponyboy and Johnny read while they were at the church?
Gone with the Wind
Trivia How old was S. E. Hinton when she wrote The Outsiders?
15 to 16.
Setting of the story What is the setting of The Outsiders? Place and time period
Small, rural town in Oklahoma
Trivia In what small town was the old abandoned church in which Ponyboy and Johnny hid out?
Windrixville
Trivia What is the name of Soda Pop’s horse?
Mickey Mouse
Trivia In what sport does Ponyboy participate at school?
track
Trivia What does Ponyboy say is visible on both the East Side and the West Side?
sunsets
Trivia How does Ponyboy get a concussion?
He is kicked in the head during the rumble.
Trivia Why are Cherry and Marcia alone at the drive- in?
The girls walked away from their boyfriends when they found out their boyfriends had been drinking.
Trivia Why does Johnny bleach Ponyboy’s hair?
So he won’t be recognized as easily.
Trivia What food does Ponyboy hate to eat?
bologna
Trivia According to Johnny, Dally is gallant ____________.
Because Dally took the rap for something he didn’t do. Because he didn’t tell the police that Two-bit was the one who had stolen something instead of him.
Trivia What is the meaning of the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay?
All good things must end
Trivia Which two people were willing to testify that Bob was drunk and looking for a fight the night he was killed?
Randy and Cherry
What was Johnny’s response to his mother coming to the hospital? Trivia What was Johnny’s response to his mother coming to the hospital?
He did not want to see her.
What topic did Ponyboy choose for his English essay? Trivia What topic did Ponyboy choose for his English essay?
The story of the events from the past week.
What did Cherry and Ponyboy both enjoy? Trivia What did Cherry and Ponyboy both enjoy?
sunsets
Why did Johnny accept his death so peacefully? Trivia Why did Johnny accept his death so peacefully?
He knew he gave his life for a worthy cause.
What were Johnny’s last words to Ponyboy? Trivia What were Johnny’s last words to Ponyboy?
“Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold.”
What caused Ponyboy to finally accept Johnny’s death? Trivia What caused Ponyboy to finally accept Johnny’s death?
He found Johnny’s good-bye letter tucked inside of Gone with the Wind.
Trivia Name four Socs.
Bob Randy Cherry Marcia Paul
Trivia Ponyboy wanted other boys like him to know that there was still good in the world. He communicated this theme through his ________.
essay
Trivia Which physical feature will Ponyboy usually comment on when describing someone?
eyes
Why do Darry and Ponyboy agree to stop arguing? Trivia Why do Darry and Ponyboy agree to stop arguing?
They stopped arguing because Soda was being caught in the middle and torn apart by their fighting.
Trivia According to Ponyboy, what is the major difference between the Greasers and the Socs?
Socs feel nothing and Greasers feel too violently. or Socs get all the breaks and Greasers know the score.
Trivia Ponyboy could stay gold by looking at things as if they were new and that Johnny knew he was dying, but saving the kids was worth it were two ideas contained in what, specifically?
Johnny’s letter
What really caused the church fire? Trivia What really caused the church fire?
The kids from the picnic playing with matches that were left behind by Johnny and Ponyboy.
Which two characters have spent time in the reformatory? Trivia Which two characters have spent time in the reformatory?
Dally and Curly Shepard