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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Frank tell the Pan Am stores clerk about what happens to his wings and hat emblem?
(a) His two-year-old took them.
(b) He loses them.
(c) They are stolen.
(d) This is his first pair.

2. Why does Frank want to deadhead on a flight out of New York City?
(a) He has to in order to be believable as a pilot.
(b) He suspects the police are looking for him.
(c) He wants to visit relatives in another city.
(d) He wants to see the world.

3. Why is Frank forced to pose as a lawyer?
(a) He wants to find a job where he cannot accidentally kill anyone.
(b) An old girlfriend remembers that he tells her he has a law degree from Harvard.
(c) He needs a job that allows him to avoid the FBI.
(d) He is looking for a job that helps him to earn a good salary.

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

5. How does Frank avoid blowing his cover while he is working at the hospital?
(a) He spends a lot of time doing research.
(b) He presents himself as a jokester.
(c) He presents himself as distant and all-knowing.
(d) He talks to the nurses to find out what he needs to know.

6. Why does Frank decide to stop posing as a pilot for a while?
(a) He is arrested in New Orleans for having suspicious credentials.
(b) He is tired of flying around the country and wants to settle down.
(c) He wants to see what other professions he can pass himself off as.
(d) One of his phony checks is not accepted when he tries to cash it.

7. Why does deadheading to Dallas give Frank a nervous moment?
(a) He learns that Pan Am does not fly out of Dallas.
(b) He does not know the answers to questions the pilots ask on the way.
(c) The Dallas FAA tower becomes suspicious of Frank.
(d) The stewardess asks if he knows a Pan Am pilot who she flies with.

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

9. How does Frank manage to keep track of the information he collects?
(a) He does not bother to keep track of it all.
(b) He uses an electronic organizer.
(c) He takes notes in a notebook.
(d) He keeps it all in his head.

10. Why does Frank have a checking account?
(a) He never has a checking account; he only pretends he does.
(b) His father sets one up for him a year earlier.
(c) He has to have a checking account to get a job.
(d) He starts his own account when he gets his first job.

11. How does Frank earn the respect of the hospital's interns?
(a) He questions every choice they make.
(b) He lets them practice medicine.
(c) He shows them how much he knows.
(d) He tells them what to do.

12. What incident scares Frank into thinking about resigning?
(a) A nurse becomes suspicious of him.
(b) He gets bored with the practice of medicine.
(c) He doesn't know what to do for a blue baby.
(d) He becomes faint at the sight of blood.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Frank decide to leave Atlanta?

2. How does Frank pay for his hotel bill while he is traveling as a pilot?

3. How does Frank add to his university lectures?

4. How long does Frank usually stay in a new apartment?

5. How does Frank get a Pan Am uniform?

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