Alcatraz Vocabulary in Context

Frank Morris and his _____ wanted to prove that breaking free from "the Rock" was not impossible. 

• wardens

• cohorts

• incarcerate

• ingenious

The men developed a(n) _____ plan to escape from Alcatraz.

• cohort

• barren

• notorious

• ingenious

The three criminals were ______ in Alcatraz.

• fashioned

• incarcerated

• barren

• warden

Using stolen and handmade tools, they’d managed to _______ life jackets and a raft out of raincoats.

• ingenious

• incarcerate

• fashion

• barren

_______ Alcatraz, located about a mile and a half from shore, seemed the perfect place to build a fort.

• barren

• warren

• notorious

• hypothermia

As Alcatraz ________ James A. Johnston later wrote, “They would select their worst; I would take them and do my best.”

• cohorts

• notorious

• warden

• penitentiary

But living next to the country’s most ________ prison had some downsides.

• uninhabited

• indigenous

• barren

• notorious

In the frigid water, they would have quickly succumbed to _________ or—had their makeshift life jackets failed—drowned.

• cohorts

• hypothermia

• boasted

• warden

For thousands of years, Alcatraz was an ________ rocky island, about a mile from shore.

• ingenious

• inconclusive

• uninhabited

• incarcerate

But most of the time, kids like Jolene would forget that they lived shoulder to shoulder with America’s ____________ lawbreakers. 

• infamous

• conclusive

• barren

• indigenous