The Run Series, #1

Who are the MAIN characters?

• Dennis & Mac

• The Greersons

• The Muskrat

• TJ & the other ranch hands

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

• busy

• empty

• dark

• cold

How did Dennis and Mac feel as they drove?

• excited

• relaxed

• worried

• fearless

Replace the word:

”They we’re worried.”

• carefree

• concerned

• anxious

• fearless

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

Does abandoned mean...

• dirty

• full

• empty

• clean

What is the main idea of this story?

• 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

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.

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

What family owned the ranch the boys worked on?

• The Muskrats

• The Greers

• The Greersons

• The Coltrains

Where did the boys first hear about the plague?

• TV

• Cell phone

• Newspaper

• Radio