"The Run" - Chapters 1 & 2

What news do Dennis and Mac hear on the radio while at the ranch?

• A. There is a cattle farm that hires young men to work over the summer.

• B. Thousands of people are running as fast as they can across the country.

• C. There is a bad disease spreading among people.

• D. Food is getting moldy on dinner plates because people are not staying at home.

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What is the sequence of events at the beginning of this story?

• A. The story begins after the disease has struck and then takes the reader back in time to a point before the disease

• B. The story begins before the disease has struck and then takes the reader forward in time to a point after the disease has ended.

• C. The story begins as the disease is striking and then takes the reader back in time to a point before the disease.

• D. The story begins as the disease is striking and then takes the reader two years into the future.

The Muskrat says that the disease is "real bad."

What evidence in the story supports his statement?

• A. T.J. wants to go into town even though The Muskrat has advised people to stay in their homes.

• B. After The Muskrat warns people about the disease, an old Earl Scruggs song comes on the radio.

• C. The Greersons tell the boys not to worry, saying that the disease will end soon.

• D. The disease is very contagious, and doctors have not been able to figure out a cure.

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Why do Dennis and Mac decide to drive to the nearest big city?

• A. They want to find a person.

• B. They are running out of food and need more.

• C. They see thousands of people running.

• D. They both like being outdoors.

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What is this story mainly about?

• A. a married couple who own a ranch, the young men they hire to work for them one summer, and the music they listen to together

• B. two young men, a mysterious disease, and what happens when they go out to explore after the disease hits

• C. a radio DJ, the music he likes to play, and the effect that his song choices have on the people who listen to them

• D. a long line of people running through a flat piece of pastureland and what happens when two young men see them

Read the following sentence: "More and more people were getting sick. The symptoms were strange. People would become violently ill, then fall into a long, deep sleep."

What does the word symptoms mean?

• A. fears of getting sick

• B. signs of a disease

• C. serious injuries

• D. suggestions that doctors give to patients

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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

Where does the second half of this story take place?

• A. two miles outside a big city

• B. in and around a gas station

• C. at a ranch

• D. deep in the wilderness

Read these sentences from the text:

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.

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Read these sentences from the text:

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."

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