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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Johnny want Two-Bit to go get for him in Chapter 8?
(a) A knife.
(b) A blanket.
(c) Some water.
(d) A copy of Gone With The Wind.

2. Why does Ponyboy have to walk home after Johnny dies?
(a) Dally had taken the car.
(b) Soda will not come pick him up.
(c) Ponyboy wants to be alone.
(d) Dally will not leave the hospital.

3. How does Dally convince the nurse to let him go to the rumble?
(a) He kisses her.
(b) He makes up a story about Ponyboy being hurt.
(c) By paying her.
(d) With Two-Bit's knife.

4. Why do Ponyboy and his brothers go home from the hospital in Chapter 7?
(a) To hide from the police.
(b) They get kicked out of the hospital.
(c) To get some rest.
(d) To get some money.

5. What does Ponyboy ask Two-Bit to do for him before the rumble?
(a) Not to tell anyone he is sick.
(b) To give him a knife.
(c) To take him home.
(d) To go get Soda.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Ponyboy use to describe the way Dally dies?

2. While Ponyboy is sitting on the car at the grocery store in Chapter 12, three Socs pull up. Why don't these three Socs like him?

3. What does Ponyboy threaten the three Socs at the grocery store with?

4. Why does Ponyboy call Cherry a traitor?

5. Who does Johnny refuse to see at the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. What prognosis do the doctors give Johnny?

2. How do readers realize that Ponyboy is in denial and delusional?

3. What does Randy tell Ponyboy when he asks to talk to him alone?

4. What does Dally ask Two-Bit for in the hospital?

5. What makes Ponyboy realize that Johnny is dying?

6. Why doesn't Darry want Ponyboy to fight in the rumble?

7. What happens at Ponyboy's court hearing?

8. What does Johnny do when his mother comes to the hospital?

9. What do Ponyboy and Randy talk about when Randy comes to visit him?

10. What do the newspaper articles say about Ponyboy?

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