Someone is Hiding on Alcatraz Island (chaps 3-6)

The following questions are on chaps 3-4 vocabulary.

To become smaller and smaller; to shrink

• tramped

• skittering

• scampered

• dwindled

Firm, strict, or uncompromising

• stern

• despair

• bleak

• dwindle

To run or go hastily or quickly

• stern

• tramped

• scampered

• skittering

A prison run by the government

• morgue

• federal penitentiary

• despair

• cots

A place where dead bodies are kept

• despair

• federal penitentiary

• cots

• morgue

A light portable bed with a folding frame

• bleak

• cots

• stern

• morgue

To tread or walk with a firm, heavy, resounding step

• skittering

• dwindled

• scampered

• tramped

loss of hope; hopelessness

• despair

• bleak

• scamper

• morgue

bare, desolate, and often wind-swept

• tramped

• bleakly

• despair

• dwindled

to go, run, or glide lightly and rapidly

• tramped

• dwindled

• skittering

• scampered