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The Run Series, #1

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who are the MAIN characters?

a)

Dennis & Mac

b)

The Greersons

c)

The Muskrat

d)

TJ & the other ranch hands

2.

What word was used to describe the roads as Dennis and Mac were driving?

a)

busy

b)

empty

c)

dark

d)

cold

3.

How did Dennis and Mac feel as they drove?

a)

excited

b)

relaxed

c)

worried

d)

fearless

4.

Replace the word:

”They we’re worried.”

a)

carefree

b)

concerned

c)

anxious

d)

fearless

5.

“The roads were almost empty. There was the occasional abandoned car, but that was it.”


Does abandoned mean...

a)

dirty

b)

full

c)

empty

d)

clean

6.

What is the main idea of this story?

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

7.

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.

8.

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.

a)

although

b)

as a result

c)

because

d)

however

9.

What family owned the ranch the boys worked on?

a)

The Muskrats

b)

The Greers

c)

The Greersons

d)

The Coltrains

10.

Where did the boys first hear about the plague?

a)

TV

b)

Cell phone

c)

Newspaper

d)

Radio

11.

What DJ did the boys listen to at night?

a)

The Muskrat

b)

Bill Monroe

c)

T.J.

d)

Earl Scruggs

12.

True or False: The Greerson's did not give the ranch hands the option to leave the ranch during the plague.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

True or False: Mac and Dennis were the only two ranch hands that decided to leave the ranch during the plague.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

What did Dennis think he saw at the end of "Run Series 1"?

a)

Car

b)

People

c)

Zombie

d)

A wild animal

15.

Which of the following describes a plague?

a)

A sudden invasion of harmful insects

b)

A lifetime of good fortune.

c)

Any terrible thing that harms many people

d)

A deadly disease