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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Frank learn from watching his father's business dealings?
(a) Alcohol encourages businessmen to make deals.
(b) Alcohol and business do not mix.
(c) Businessmen never drink while they work.
(d) It is easy to con a businessman.

2. How does Frank feel about being treated like a gopher?
(a) He is relieved not to have to practice law.
(b) He is happy to be left to focus on other things.
(c) He is offended not to have a chance to prove himself.
(d) He is determined to prove that he is capable.

3. What does Frank tell his girlfriend when he leaves town and abandons his job as a lawyer?
(a) That he is rehired by Pan Am.
(b) That he is transferred to another state.
(c) That he is gone for a few weeks because of a death in the family.
(d) That he is leaving for good because the FBI is chasing him.

4. What impression might a reader form about Frank's character from the first chapter?
(a) He likes to follow the rules and play by the book.
(b) He is very greedy and dreams of having many possessions.
(c) He likes to find creative ways to avoid following the rules.
(d) He does not like to have to think anything through.

5. How does Frank prepare to teach sociology courses?
(a) He takes courses at another university.
(b) He audits some courses taught by the head of the deparment.
(c) He studies sociology in the library.
(d) He makes it up as he goes along.

6. Why can't Frank earn a decent living at an ordinary job?
(a) He is not good at learning new things.
(b) He is too young to get a good job.
(c) He never gets his high school diploma.
(d) He is a wanted criminal.

7. How does Frank manage to pass the bar exam?
(a) He gets a copy of the exam and cheats.
(b) He studies hard and takes it three times.
(c) He has someone else take the exam for him.
(d) He doesn't pass the exam, but he forges documents showing that he does.

8. What con does Frank commit at the very beginning of the book?
(a) He tricks the gas station attendant.
(b) He takes a job as a substitute teacher.
(c) He impersonates an airline pilot.
(d) He forges a check.

9. How does Frank find out about airline procedures and routines?
(a) He reads Pan Am's travel brochures.
(b) He poses as a high school reporter and interviews a captain.
(c) He starts his con and learns as he goes along.
(d) He hangs out in the airport and watches what flight crews do.

10. How does Frank find out what a "blue baby" is?
(a) He asks a nurse.
(b) He checks his pocket medical dictionary.
(c) He figures it out when he sees the baby.
(d) He asks an intern.

11. Where does a deadheading pilot sit on a plane?
(a) In a jumpseat in the cockpit.
(b) In the copilot's seat.
(c) In an extra seat in first class.
(d) In an extra seat in coach.

12. What technology, which does not exist at the time, might have stopped Frank's crime spree?
(a) Pagers.
(b) Video surveillance cameras.
(c) Cell phones.
(d) Computer networking.

13. Why does Frank tell the sales representative that he needs to order 200 I.D. cards when he really only needs one for himself?
(a) So that the salesman believes him.
(b) At first he thinks he needs 200 cards.
(c) He wants to keep a few extras just in case.
(d) He plans to sell ID cards to other criminals.

14. Why is Frank so determined to raise money?
(a) He wants to travel.
(b) He wants to save for college.
(c) He wants to go on dates with girls.
(d) He wants to buy a car.

15. Why doesn't Frank worry that the hotels may call the police?
(a) He is certain he leaves no trail for police to follow.
(b) He is certain that as a juvenile, he cannot be charged.
(c) He feels sure that his crimes are small compared to others they must solve.
(d) He thinks that he is several steps ahead of the police.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Frank's plan work?

2. When he realizes that airline employees are suspicious of him, how does Frank gather more information about his role as a pilot?

3. Why does Frank later realize that it is just as well that he leaves Atlanta when he does?

4. How does Frank earn his father's trust?

5. Where does Frank go when he leaves his job at the Attorney General's office?

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