"The Run" - Chapter 1

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

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

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

• There is a bad disease spreading among people.

• 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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.

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

• They want to find a person.

• They are running out of food and need more.

• They see thousands of people running.

• They both like being outdoors.

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What is the story mainly about?

• 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

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

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

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

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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?

• fears of getting sick

• signs of a disease

• serious injuries

• suggestions that doctors give to patients

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Choose the answer that best completes the sentence below.

Dennis and Mac are frightened after leaving the ranch ________ the towns and cities they visit have no people in them.

• although

• as a result

• because

• however

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