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- 3. I was dying for a Pepsi. I'm what you might call a Pepsi addict. I drink them like a_______________, and going for five days without one was about to kill me.
- 4. "Robert Frost wrote it. He meant more to it than I'm gettin' though." I was trying to find the meaning the poet had in mind, but it _____________me. "I always remembered it because I never quite got what he meant by it"
- 5. "And," Two-Bit added grimly, "a few other of the socially ____________checkered-shirt set"
- 6. "My parents," Johnny repeated__________, "did they ask about me?"
- 8. Towheaded and shifty-eyed, Dally was anything but handsome. Yet in his hard face there was character, pride, and a savage _____________of the world.
- 12. Sodapop kept them in stitches. He'd grab one guy's press hat and another's camera and walk around interviewing the nurses and ___________TV reporters. He tried to lift a policeman's gun and grinned so crazily when he was caught that the policeman had to grin too.
- 15. Two-Bit or Steve or even Soda would have gone right along with him, just to see if they could embarrass the girls, but that kind of kicks just doesn't appeal to me. I sat there, struck dumb, and Johnny left _____________to get a Coke
- 16. I WALKED DOWN THE hall in a daze. Dally had taken the car and I started the long walk home in a____________. Johnny was dead
- 17. AFTER THE MOVIE was over it suddenly came to us that Cherry and Marcia didn't have a way to get home. Two-Bit _____________offered to walk them home--- the west side of town was only about twenty miles away--- but they wanted to call their parents and have them come and get them.
- 18. Finally Johnny finished. "We figured you could get us out if anyone could. I'm sorry we got you away from the party." "Oh, shoot, kid"--- Dally glanced ______________over his shoulder--- "I was in the bedroom."
- 19. It was the reward of two hours of walking aimlessly around a hardware store to __________suspicion
- 21. "Hey, Ponyboy"--- he fumbled with a piece of paper in his back pocket--- "I gotta letter for you." "A letter? Who from?" "The President, of course, stupid. It's from Soda." "Sodapop?" I said,_________. "But how did he know...?
- 26. up Then I hurried to take a shower and change clothes. Me and Soda and Darry always got ____________before a rumble. And besides, we wanted to show those Socs we weren't trash, that we were just as good as they were.
- 27. That's a habit I have. Then he said I was _________and the whole case was closed. Just like that. Didn't even give me a chance to talk much. But that didn't bother me a lot. I didn't feel like talking anyway.
- 28. "Hey, grease," one said in an over-friendly voice. "We're gonna do you a favor, greaser. We're gonna cut all that long greasy hair off." He had on a ______________shirt. I can still see it. Blue________. One of them laughed, then cussed me out in a low voice. I couldn't think of anything to say. There just isn't a whole lot you can say while waiting to get mugged, so I kept my mouth shut.
- 31. ___________and shifty-eyed, Dally was anything but handsome
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- 1. "You sure don't need an amplifier," Soda said, and stuck out his tongue at the back of Darry's head. I ___________a giggle. If you want to see something funny, it's a tough hood sticking his tongue out at his big brother
- 2. "We put it out before you got burned. That jacket saved you from a bad burning, maybe saved your life. You just ______________over from smoke inhalation and a little shock--- of course, that slap on the back didn't help much."
- 7. We had stood there, clenching our teeth and___________, with sweat pouring down our faces and the smell of burning flesh making us sick, each refusing to holler, until Tim happened to stroll by.
- 9. I was lousing up my schoolwork, too. I didn't do too badly in math, because Darry checked over my homework in that and usually caught all my mistakes and made me do it again, but in English I really washed out. I used to make A's in English, mostly because my teacher made us do __________all the time. I mean, I know I don't talk good English (Have you ever seen a hood that did?), but I can write it good when I try
- 10. He liked fights, blondes, and for some __________________reason, school. He was still a junior at eighteen and a half and he never learned anything. He just went for kicks.
- 11. She gave him an _______________look; and then she threw her Coke in his face. "That might cool you off, greaser. After you wash your mouth and learn to talk and act decent, I might cool off, too."
- 13. Darry is six-feet-two, and broad-shouldered and muscular. He has dark-brown hair that kicks out in front and a slight _____________in the back
- 14. Buck glared at me for a second, then stumbled, off. He was pretty well crocked, which made me_____________. If Dally waS drunk and in a dangerous mood....
- 20. He's not as tall as Darry, and he's a little slimmer, but he has a finely drawn, sensitive face that somehow manages to be ____________and thoughtful at the same time.
- 22. I've never seen him so mad. I think he could have whipped anyone, in the state he was in. Today's Tuesday, and you've been asleep and ____________since Saturday night. Don't you remember?"
- 23. "Gee, thanks." I put the book down______________. I wanted to start it right then.
- 24. I stared at the newspaper. On the front page of the second section was the headline: ___________DELINQUENTS TURN HEROES.
- 25. "I won't be able to walk again," Johnny started, then__________. "Not even on crutches. Busted my back."
- 29. "Work?" Two-Bit was__________. "And ruin my rep? I wouldn't be baby-sittin'the kid here if I knew of some good day-nursery open on Saturdays."
- 30. that was the truth. Socs were always behind a wall of______________, careful not to let their real selves show through. I had seen a social-club rumble once. The Socs even fought coldly and practically and impersonally