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The Outsiders: Chapters 5-6
Instructions: Read chapters 5-6. Then, answer the questions below by circling the BEST
answer. Cite your proof by writing the page # in the blank provided.
1. Where was Ponyboy when he thought, “I woke up late in the afternoon. For a second, I
didn’t know where I was. You know how it is, when you wake up in a strange place…”? –
A) in the back of a car
B) on a train car
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C) in an old church
D) in New York City
2. What item did Ponyboy hope Johnny would remember?
A) a pack of cigarettes
B) Gone With the Wind
C) baloney
D) peroxide
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3. What did Johnny want Ponyboy to read to him to kill time?
A) Gone With the Wind
B) Great Expectations
C) The New York Times
D) Esperanza Rising
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4. Why did Johnny buy peroxide?
A) to help treat the cuts they received in the fight
B) to bleach their hair
C) to put in a first aid kit
D) to be able to start a fire
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5. What caused Ponyboy to remember Robert Frost’s poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay?”
A) their lack of much money
B) the sunrise
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C) the autumn leaves
D) Soda’s hair
6. What food are Pony and Johnny tired of?
A) peanut butter and jelly
B) mustard sandwiches
C) baloney
D) candy bars
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7. What was Ponyboy addicted to?
A) cigarettes
B) alcohol
C) reading
D) Pepsi
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8. Why did Dally say it was okay for Pony and Johnny to come out of hiding?
A) because he told the police they were in Texas
B) because no one was looking for them
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C) Darry and Sodapop were worried
D) he didn’t want anyone else to find them first
9. What did Sodapop ask Dally to give to Pony?
A) a pack of cigarettes and a switchblade
B) a change of clothes and a Pepsi
C) a letter and half his paycheck
D) a picture of Cherry and $50
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10. Who was acting as a spy for the greasers?
A) Cherry
B) Marcia
C) Steve
D) Bob
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11. Why did Johnny decide to turn himself in?
A) because Pony and Cherry would support his story
B) because he did not want to be on the run his whole life
C) he knew he would eventually run out of money
D) he didn’t want Ponyboy to possibly be hurt with him
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12. Why did Dally try to convince Johnny NOT to turn himself in?
A) because he didn’t think Johnny would receive a fair trial
B) Dally thought the judge would believe the Socs story
C) he didn’t want Johnny to become hardened in jail like him
D) Dally didn’t trust the police
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13. Why did Johnny and Ponyboy rush back into the church after they had eaten at
the Dairy Queen?
A) to save some children who were trapped by a fire
B) to retrieve the money Dally had just given them
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C) to get the supplies they had bought
D) to say goodbye to the place they had called home
14. Why did the teacher say Pony, Johnny, and Dally were “sent from heaven”?
A) they had appeared from inside the church
B) he saw them praying outside the church
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C) because of their heroic actions
D) because he was praying for the Greasers
15. When he was reunited with Darry, Ponyboy realized –
A) Darry worked hard to support himself and his brothers
B) Darry was upset because he didn’t want to lose another family member
C) the reason Darry didn’t go to college
D) Darry was planning revenge on the Socs
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