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Reading Questions

Choose the best answer.

1. What primarily created Alcatraz’s mystique?

a. its harsh rules
b. its notorious prisoners
c. books and movies
d. the large amount of tourists that visit it every year

2. What is the first thing mentioned about Alcatraz in the passage?
a. the tourists who visit the island
b. the prisoners who attempted to escape from the island

c. the punishments prisoners faced for violating the prison’s rules
d. the island’s Chinese population

3. What causes so many tourists to visit Alcatraz every year?

a. the rigid discipline on the island
b. the notorious prisoners that can be seen there
c. the island’s civilian population

d. the island’s mystique

4. What did some of the prisoners and the Chinese civilians on Alcatraz
have in common?

a. They both at times attempted to escape the island.
b. They both lived in cramped cells.
c. They both worked as servants on the island.
d. They both lived on a diet of bread and water.

5. Predict how a prisoner who disobeyed the prison’s rules would be
punished.
a. They would be forced to wear a twelve pound ball and chain.
b. They would be forced to work as servants for some of the island’s families.

c. They would not be punished.
d. They would be left to drown in the freezing water surrounding the island.

6. In the passage what does the word ironhanded mean?

a. beaten with a metal rod
b. extremely strict
c. put in handcuffs

d. passive

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