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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, "Fly a Crooked Sky".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Frank pretend to be a representative of Carib Air?
(a) To get a pilot's license made.
(b) To deadhead on a flight.
(c) To get a pilot's uniform.
(d) To get a sample I.D. card made.

2. What does Frank give as his address when he stays at hotels?
(a) He gives General Delivery, New York as his address.
(b) He lists whatever hotel he stays at last.
(c) He makes up a phony address.
(d) He lists Pan Am's address in New York.

3. How does Frank earn a living when he first runs away from home?
(a) He lives off money sent to him by his parents.
(b) He works part-time in a warehouse.
(c) He supports himself writing bad checks.
(d) He takes a job in a stationery store for $1.50 an hour.

4. What event in his personal life serves as the trigger for Frank to become a juvenile delinquent?
(a) His first arrest.
(b) Moving in with his father.
(c) Getting his first credit card.
(d) His parents' divorce.

5. What is "deadheading"?
(a) Forging a check.
(b) Tricking a teacher or school with a fake note.
(c) Getting a free ride in the cockpit of an airplane.
(d) Failing to pay a credit card bill.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Frank's plan work?

2. What is Frank's biggest complaint about the reformatory?

3. Why does deadheading to Dallas give Frank a nervous moment?

4. What does Frank decide to do to make it possible for him to cash more bad checks?

5. Why doesn't Frank worry that the hotels may call the police?

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