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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Frank avoid leaving a trail at his apartment building?
(a) He pays his rent with a nonexistent checking account.
(b) He pays cash and never wears his uniform there.
(c) He never pays his rent but moves out when the rent is due.
(d) He uses money orders and cashier's checks.

2. Why doesn't Frank move back to New Orleans when his girlfriend is transferred?
(a) He does not really like his girlfriend that well.
(b) He is afraid the police are still looking for him there.
(c) He likes Atlanta better than New Orleans.
(d) He does not want to leave his job as a doctor.

3. From the tone of the first chapter, how does Frank feels about the choices he makes?
(a) He is proud of his resourcefulness.
(b) He deeply regrets ever turning to crime.
(c) He dreams about other paths he takes.
(d) He feels ashamed about betraying his father's trust.

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

5. What does Frank's ability to pass the bar exam prove?
(a) He is smart enough to finish school and get a good job.
(b) Frank should stay in his job as an attorney.
(c) It is easy to cheat on the bar exam.
(d) Anyone can be a lawyer.

6. What does NOT make Frank nervous the first time he deadheads on a flight?
(a) Answering questions from the pilot and copilot during the flight.
(b) Waiting while an airline employee calls the FAA tower.
(c) Trying to find the jumpseat in the cockpit.
(d) Having to present his pilot's license and I.D. card.

7. How does Frank's father's financial situation change during the first chapter?
(a) He loses his job and is unemployed.
(b) He rises from his job as a postal clerk to become a businessman.
(c) He leaves his job as a businessman and becomes a politician.
(d) He goes from being a businessman to being a postal clerk.

8. What does Frank need to fill out in order to deadhead on a flight?
(a) A red slip.
(b) A green slip.
(c) A pink slip.
(d) A blue slip.

9. Where does Frank get the Pan Am logo for his I.D. card?
(a) He draws it himself and puts it on his card.
(b) He gets it from the company that makes the I.D. cards.
(c) He takes it from a Pan Am brochure.
(d) He takes it off a model airplane from a hobby shop.

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

11. Why does Frank finally leave the hospital?
(a) The hospital administrator finally locates a permanent replacement.
(b) His cover is blown and he is discovered.
(c) He decides that his salary at the hospital is not enough to live on.
(d) He is afraid that he is responsible for a child's death.

12. What is Frank's biggest complaint about the reformatory?
(a) There is nothing to do for fun.
(b) There are no girls.
(c) His freedom is restricted.
(d) He misses his family.

13. What impression might a reader form about Frank's character from the first chapter?
(a) He does not like to have to think anything through.
(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 likes to follow the rules and play by the book.

14. Why does Frank leave his $1.50/hour job?
(a) He does not like working for a living.
(b) He is afraid his boss finds out he is forging checks.
(c) He cannot live on that amount of money.
(d) He hopes to find a job where he meets more girls.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Frank prove that he really is employed by Pan Am?

2. How does Frank find out that he does not yet know enough about being a pilot?

3. How does Frank find out about airline procedures and routines?

4. What explanation does Frank give the state's attorney's office for his decision to stop working as a pilot?

5. What mistake does Frank's father have expunged from Frank's record?

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