The Run

What does exposure mean?

• the state of being vulnerable to something

• any large-scale calamity

• send from one person or place to another

What does horde mean?

• marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion

• a vast multitude

• living in or characteristic of farming or country life

What does ominous mean?

• contaminate with a disease

• a vague/unpleasant emotion

• threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

Which sentence correctly uses the word FRANTIC?

• The boy frantically ran around the gym because his team just won the championship basketball game!

• Ally frantically sat at her desk and quietly read a book.

• Dan frantically went to sleep and slept for 12 hours straight.

What is the definition of plague?

• Small calamity

• Large-scale calamity

• infected

• send from one person or place to another

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

• There is a bad disease spreading among people.

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

• Food is getting moldy on dinner plates.

The Muskrat says that the disease is “real bad.”What evidence in the story supports his statement?

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

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

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

Read these sentences from the text #2.

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"?

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

• There were a lot of them.

• They were running toward Mac and Dennis.

Choose the answer that best completes the sentence.

Mac is worried that the figure by the stream may be a zombie, ___ he tries to stay out of arm's reach.

• so

• but

• though

What injury does Anna have in #4?

• a gash on her leg

• sprained ankle

• cut on her forehead