The Outsiders Ch 7-12 Study guide answers

The Outsiders Study Guide: Chapters 7- 12 Chapter 7 1. Which of the characters is in critical condition after the fire? Answer: Johnny. 2. Who waits at the hospital with Ponyboy in Chapter 7? Answer: Darry and Soda. 3. What prognosis do the doctors give the critically injured character in Chapter 7? Answer: It will be impossible for him to walk again if he lives. 4. Why do Ponyboy and his brothers go home from the hospital in Chapter 7? Answer: To get some rest. 5. Why can't Ponyboy speak when he hears of Johnny's condition? Answer: He thinks he might cry. 6. Who comes over to Ponyboy's house to see him when he gets home from the hospital? Answer: Steve and Two-Bit. 7. Who tells Ponyboy that he is famous and shows him the newspaper article about him and Johnny? Answer: Steve. 8. When he reads the newspaper stories about the fire, where does Ponyboy learn that he has to go? Answer: Juvenile court. 9. What does Soda want to do after the big rumble? Answer: Throw a party. 10. Who has moved to Florida by Chapter 7? Answer: Sandy. 11. What do Two-Bit and Ponyboy do before going back to the hospital? Answer: Clean the house. 12. Who tells Ponyboy that he will not be going to the rumble? Answer: Randy. Chapter 8 1. What do the doctors say that makes Ponyboy realize Johnny is dying? Answer: It wouldn't hurt him to have people over now. 2. What does Johnny want Two-Bit to go get for him in Chapter 8? Answer: A copy of The Winds of Change. 3. What lie does Ponyboy tell Johnny in the hospital? Answer: That Johnny will be okay. 4. Who does Johnny refuse to see at the hospital? Answer: His mother. 5. What does Two-Bit give Dally in the hospital? Answer: His blade. 6. On the way to Dally's room, who do Two-Bit and Johnny pass in the hospital hallway? Answer: Johnny's mother. 7. Who has a fever and isn't feeling very well while he is at the hospital? Answer: Ponyboy. 8. What does Ponyboy ask Two-Bit to do for him before the rumble? Answer: Not to let anyone know he's sick. 9. Who has a bad feeling about the rumble? Answer: Ponyboy. 10. What does Cherry tell Ponyboy that the Socs have planned for the rumble? Answer: She says they won't use weapons and will fight fairly. 11. Where do Ponyboy and Two-Bit find Cherry as they are walking home from the hospital? Answer: The vacant lot. 12. Why does Ponyboy call Cherry a traitor? Answer: She won't go see Johnny because she won't. Chapter 9 1. What time does Ponyboy get home before the rumble? Answer: 6:30 p.m. 2. Who tells Ponyboy in Chapter 9 that he shouldn't fight in the rumble? Answer: Darry. 3. Where is the rumble to take place? Answer: The vacant lot. 4. What are Ponyboy and Soda supposed to do if the cops show up at the rumble? Answer: Take off. 5. Who is the youngest boy at the rumble? Answer: Ponyboy. 6. How many Socs show up at the rumble? Answer: 22. 7. How does Ponyboy want to make Darry proud? Answer: By being good at the rumble. 8. The first group to ______ will lose the rumble. Answer: Run. 9. How does Dally convince the nurse to let him go to the rumble? Answer: With Two-Bit's knife. 10. Who wins the rumble? Answer: The greasers. 11. What kind of car does Buck Merrill drive? Answer: A T-Bird. 12. As he is dying, what does Johnny tell Ponyboy to do? Answer: Stay gold. Chapter 10 1. Why does Ponyboy have to walk home after Johnny dies? Answer: This was Dally's car. 2. What has Dally done to make the cops chase him in Chapter 10? Answer: Robbed a store. 3. Where does Dally make the cops chase him to? Answer: The vacant lot. 4. Who shoots Dally? Answer: The cops. 5. What word does Ponyboy use to describe the way Dally dies? Answer: Gallant. 6. Who gets sick and passes out after Dally dies? Answer: Ponyboy. 7. Who is sleeping in the chair beside Ponyboy when he wakes up in Chapter 10 after the rumble? Answer: Darry. 8. What is wrong with Ponyboy after the rumble? Answer: He has a concussion. 9. On what day does Ponyboy finally wake up after passing out following the rumble? Answer: Tuesday. 10. Who does Johnny leave with a copy of Gone With the Wind for Ponyboy? Answer: The nurse. 11. What caused Ponyboy's injury/illness during the rumble? Answer: Getting hit in the head. 12. Who crawls into bed with Ponyboy and falls asleep with him in Chapter 10? Answer: Soda. Chapter 11 1. How long does Ponyboy stay in bed after the rumble? Answer: A week. 2. To pass the time after the rumble, Ponyboy reads and __________ while confined to bed. Answer: Draws. 3. What is one of the things Ponyboy reads while confined to his bed? Answer: Soda's yearbook. 4. Whose picture does Ponyboy come across while reading in bed after the rumble? Answer: Bob's. 5. Who comes to visit Ponyboy when he is confined to bed after the rumble? Answer: Randy. 6. When is Ponyboy supposed to go to court? Answer: The next day after Randy comes. 7. Who does Ponyboy say killed Bob? Answer: Himself. 8. Ponyboy tells Randy that Johnny isn't ______. Answer: Dead. 9. What does Darry scold Ponyboy for doing in bed after the rumble? Answer: Smoking. 10. How does Ponyboy respond to Darry's scolding in Chapter 11? Answer: He will try to be more careful after telling Darry. 11. Who is delusional about Johnny's death? Answer: Ponyboy. 12. How does Ponyboy feel about having to stay in bed after the rumble? Answer: It drives him crazy. Chapter 12 1. Who is present at Ponyboy's hearing? Answer: The people who killed Bob and Ponyboy's doctor. 2. Who speaks to the judge before the hearing begins? Answer: Ponyboy's doctor. 3. Who is the first person to be questioned at the hearing? Answer: Randy. 4. What does the judge ask Ponyboy? Answer: If he likes living with Darry and going to school. 5. What is the result of Ponyboy's hearing? Answer: He is acquitted. 6. Why does Ponyboy have to write a semester theme? Answer: To pass his English class. 7. Who does Ponyboy go to the grocery store with in Chapter 12? Answer: Steve and Two-Bit. 8. 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? Answer: He is accused of killing their friend. 9. What does Ponyboy threaten the three Socs at the grocery store with? Answer: A broken Pepsi bottle. 10. What does Ponyboy say doesn't happen when you're tough? Answer: You don't get hurt. 11. Why is Soda upset about Sandy in Chapter 12? Answer: She sends them back without opening them. 12. What does Ponyboy find inside his copy of Gone With the WInd? Answer: A letter from Johnny.