The Run

With: MS. Shyne

Multiple Choice

1. Who is rushing toward Mac and Dennis at the beginning of the story?

• A. a swarm of crazed people

• B. a woman named Ann Greerson

• C. a girl named Anna Johnson

• D. the owner of a gas station

Fill in the Blanks

Read these sentences from the text.

Mac didn't want to let her down. He reached into his wallet and found a twenty-dollar bill. He had just placed it on the counter when he heard a sound behind him. Mac froze. He wasn't alone in the store.

What evidence supports the statement that Mac "wasn't alone in the store"?

Poll

What is the main idea of this story?

• A girl named Anna Johnson uses her father's radio kit to ask whether anyone "who's still human" is out there.

• Two young men barely escape a crowd of people rushing toward them.

• Mac enters a gas station and fills plastic bags with trail mix, bottled water, medicine, granola bars, and jars of peanut butter.

• Two young men are trying to survive in a world where almost everyone seems to have gone crazy.

Multiple Choice

The young men talked over their next move as they drove. Big cities seemed dangerous, but the small towns were abandoned. Should they head back to the ranch? Go deeper into the wilderness? Or try to find other survivors who were also on the run? There was no easy answer. No matter what decision they made, it would be risky.

Based on the information in the story, why might any decision the young men make be risky?

• A. They do not have much experience driving long distances at night.

• B. They do not know whether they can trust the girl who says her name is Anna Johnson.

• C. They have no map and do not know how to get back to the ranch.

• D. Wherever they go, there is a chance they will come across more "crazed people."

Poll

Were those zombies?' asked Mac. 'I don't know,' said Dennis. 'Whatever they were, they didn't seem completely human.'

What evidence from the story supports the idea that the people Mac and Dennis saw were not "completely human"?

• A. There were a lot of them.

• B. They were "only twenty feet away" from Mac and Dennis.

• C. They were "crazed" and had "wild eyes."

• D. They were running toward Mac and Dennis.

Poll

The young men talked over their next move as they drove. Big cities seemed dangerous, but the small towns were abandoned. Should they head back to the ranch? Go deeper into the wilderness? Or try to find other survivors who were also on the run? There was no easy answer. No matter what decision they made, it would be risky.

Based on these sentences, what does the phrase "on the run" mean?

• 1. trying to help people

• 2. trying to win a race

• 3. trying to hurry up

• 4. trying to escape or hide