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1. What is the location this story was set in?
2. What decade is the story set in?
3. What are the three most leading characters' names?
4. In the book, why did Darry get upset with Ponyboy when he got jumped by the Socs?
5. At the drive-in, why did Cherry and Marcia leave their boyfriends during the movie?
6. What was the movie that was playing at the drive-in?
7. Why did Dallas get mad and leave the movie? Was this unusual?
8. What did Johnny notice about Cherry's boyfriend when they caught up with them after the movie?
9. What were Johnny's parents doing when he tried to go into the house?
10. Why did Darry and Ponyboy get into a fight, causing Pony to run from the house?
11. Why did Johnny kill the Soc and what was the boy's name? Who played this character in the movie?
12. What was one thing that Ponyboy got upset with Johnny about while they were hiding out?
13. When Dallas came to see them at the church, why did he get mad?
14. What caught the church on fire? How many kids did the guys save?
15. Who portrayed the nurse in Dallas's hospital room?
16. Why did Ponyboy always remember the poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost?
17. Who came to see Johnny in the hospital and why did he send them away?
18. Which Soc did Darry pick as his opponent at the rumble? How did they know each other?
19. Before the rumble, Ponyboy and Randy had a conversation. What realization had Randy come to because of the events of the last week?
20. When Johnny was dying, what were his parting words to Dallas and Ponyboy?
21. Why did Dallas want to die? What did he do to accomplish this? What weapon did he have?
22. What was Johnny's parting gift to Ponyboy?
23. What was the court verdict for the Curtis brothers?
24. Why did Sodapop get upset and run out of the house at the end of the book?
25. Who were the stars that played the leading Greasers?
Source: Author
80sMovieFan
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