<span>"And, if they lived before the Christian era, / They did not worship God in the right way: / And I myself [Virgil] am one of those poor souls." (Canto IV, lines 34 – 39)</span>
When Pony is coming back from the movies, he realizes he is alone. His first mistake is that he didn't stop to wait for Darry, Sodapop, or one of the gang members to go with him to the movies. This results in him walking home alone, which in turn makes him easy bait. He then gets jumped by the Socs, all because he didn't wait for someone else to go with him.
I believe the answers are
1. B
2. H
3. D
4. F
5. D
Cause and effect, compare and contrast, order-sequence and problem-soultion
It is a tragic tale of a man who decides to travel alone through the hostile environment of the Yukon in sub- freeing temperatures and falls victims to the unrelenting and unforgiving power of nature.