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QuizMultiple Choice

Conflict and Theme in The Outsiders

Question 7 • *CR Expository Reading and Writing S1 [E4250OX]

Read this excerpt from The Outsiders."I’m okay. Quit shaking me, Darry, I’m okay.”He stopped instantly. "I’m sorry.”He wasn’t really. Darry isn’t ever sorry for anything he does. It seems funny to me that he should look just exactly like my father and act exactly the opposite from him. My father was only forty when he died and he looked twenty-five and a lot of people thought Darry and Dad were brothers instead of father and son. But they only looked alike—my father was never rough with anyone without meaning to be.

Answer
A
big brothers are never sorry.
B
fathers can act like brothers.
C
family relationships are complicated.
D
fathers are never rough with anyone.

Explanation

The narrator compares Darry with their father: they look alike, but Darry behaves roughly while their father was never rough without meaning to be. This contrast shows that family members can resemble one another yet have very different personalities, making family relationships complicated. The best choice is “family relationships are complicated.”

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