Chapter One
Vocabulary
The Outsiders
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Content: To be satisfied, pleased.
I have to be content with what I have.
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Rarely: uncommon, infrequent
I am a greaser and most of my neighborhood rarely
bothers to get a haircut.
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Loned: by oneself
I thought I was the only person in the world that did.
So I loned myself.
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Asset: Worth
Not likes the Socs, who jump greasers and wreck
houses and throw beer blasts for kicks, and get
editorials in the paper for being a public disgrace one
day and an asset to society the next.
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Slouched: an ungainly gait
I automatically hitched my thumbs in my jeans and
slouched, wondering if I could get away if I made a
break for it.
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Madras: cotton fabric shirt usually bright colored.
He had on a madras shirt.
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Cowlick: tuft of hair growing in a different direction.
He has dark-brown hair that kicks out in front and a
slight cowlick in the back-just like Dad’s…
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Quivering: trembling, shaking.
I drew a quivering breath and quit crying.
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Complicated: involved, complex
Steve Randle was seventeen, tall and lean, with thick
greasy hair he kept combed in complicated swirls.
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Sarcasm: Bitter cutting jest
“Sure,” I said, trying for Soda’s sake to keep the
sarcasm out of my voice.
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Nonchalantly: indifferently
“Okay,” I said nonchalantly, “might as well.”
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Questions
Chapter 1-2
The Outsiders
1. Who is the narrator in this story? Describe him.
2. Who are the Socs? Who are the greasers?
3. Identify the following characters: Darryl,
Sodapop, Steve Randall, Dallas Winston, and
Johnny.
4. How did Two-Bit Mathews get his name?
What type of stealing is his specialty?
5. Soda tells Ponyboy that Darryl keeps after him
because the older boy loves his younger
brother. Why does Ponyboy think that Soda is
wrong?
6. What does Cherry tell Ponyboy
about the Socs that he has a hard
time believing?
7. What does Cherry’s comment to
Ponyboy about trouble suggest or
foreshadow?
8. Pony was somewhat surprised
what he was getting along with
Cherry and Marcia. Why?
9. The last line in Chapter Two refers
to what? What is foreshadowed by
this line?