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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Frank find out that he does not yet know enough about being a pilot?
(a) He is stopped by airport security because his I.D. is not correct.
(b) He is not allowed to deadhead on flights at first.
(c) He meets a TWA pilot who is suspicious of him.
(d) He tests his new identity before trying it out.

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

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

4. If Frank gets a regular job, which of the following professions do you think he is best suited for?
(a) Cashier.
(b) Fireman.
(c) Actor.
(d) Waiter.

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

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

7. Why does Frank accept the job as a supervising resident, even though he knows that he is not qualified to practice medicine?
(a) He needs the money while he is living in Atlanta.
(b) He thinks that he learns the job as he goes along by watching the interns.
(c) He thinks he knows enough about medicine to fake it.
(d) The hospital tells him he does not actually have to practice medicine.

8. How does Frank get a temporary license to practice medicine in Georgia?
(a) He is interviewed by a panel of doctors.
(b) He forges one himself.
(c) He says that he has a license but is never asked to show it.
(d) He copies a license belonging to another doctor.

9. Why does Frank's plan work?
(a) Because it is so simple.
(b) Because it is impossible to detect.
(c) Because it relies on the kindness of strangers.
(d) Because it is so brazen.

10. How does Frank find a place to stay after he runs away?
(a) He becomes homeless and has to live on the streets.
(b) He forges checks to pay for hotel rooms.
(c) He convinces a friend's parents that he is an orphan.
(d) He puts his apartment rent on his credit card bill.

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

12. How do the bill collector and Frank's father react when they find out he is running up thousands of dollars in charges that he cannot pay?
(a) They are understanding.
(b) They are disbelieving.
(c) They are distraught.
(d) They are angry.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frank need to fill out in order to deadhead on a flight?

2. How does Frank avoid blowing his cover while he is working at the hospital?

3. Why does Frank finally leave the hospital?

4. What does NOT make Frank nervous the first time he deadheads on a flight?

5. Why is Frank so determined to raise money?

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