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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What plans does Frank make for his future while he is living in Montpellier?
(a) He plans to loaf for the rest of his life.
(b) He hopes to get a legitimate job working for an airline.
(c) He is thinking of moving in with his grandparents.
(d) He is considering returning to school.

2. What does Frank have Papa Lavalier print before he returns to New York?
(a) Three hundred copies of a cashier's check for $1,200.00.
(b) 1,500 personal checks for Frank.
(c) 10,000 more payroll checks for Pan Am.
(d) A second set of phony identification cards.

3. What is Frank's sentence at Perpignan Prison?
(a) Five years.
(b) Six months.
(c) Ten years.
(d) One year.

4. What feature of a Boston airport gives Frank an idea for another con?
(a) The all-night check-in counter.
(b) The after-hours depository for a bank.
(c) The security officers inside the airport.
(d) The computer at the gate.

5. How does Frank get the money from the night depository out of the airport?
(a) He carries it out on the next flight.
(b) He carries it in bags one at a time.
(c) Two state troopers help him to carry it to his car.
(d) He stashes it in an airport locker.

6. Does Frank make money on the intern scheme?
(a) No, but he enjoys the summer of travel.
(b) Yes, he makes more than $300,000.00.
(c) Yes, but he spends it all on the interns.
(d) No, but he does not care since he had fun.

7. Why does Frank refuse a job in his friend Armand's vineyards?
(a) He does not need the money.
(b) He does not enjoy physical labor.
(c) He thinks the work is boring.
(d) He fears the job exposes him to the authorities.

8. Which of the following is an important part of Frank's summer intern scheme?
(a) Making sure the interns wear their uniforms at all times.
(b) Cashing the interns' paychecks for them as a group.
(c) Carrying the interns' passports for them as a group.
(d) Never traveling on Pan Am itself, only on other carriers.

9. Why does Frank have 10,000 payroll checks printed?
(a) He expects to have to hire others to help him with his schemes.
(b) He thinks printing so many makes him look like he really does work for Pan Am.
(c) He anticipates needing that many checks to pay for his European vacation.
(d) He is planning to expand his operations dramatically.

10. Who does Monique leave Frank for?
(a) A local printer.
(b) An Air France pilot.
(c) An Air France flight attendant.
(d) An FBI agent.

11. Why does Pan Am start an investigation?
(a) A Pan Am pilot sees Frank in Europe and becomes suspicious.
(b) Pan Am begins to realize that its checks are being forged.
(c) Frank has proofs from the photo sessions sent to Pan Am's offices.
(d) Frank brazenly tells Pan Am what he is doing.

12. Why doesn't Frank answer Jan's questions at first?
(a) He thinks that he is extradited to Italy soon.
(b) He does not expect to be treated humanely after his trial.
(c) He believes that he is turned back over to the FBI.
(d) He fears that he is in a Swedish prison for 20 years.

13. Why does Frank decide to start forging large corporate checks?
(a) It is easier to forge a corporate check than a personal check.
(b) He has a grudge against Pan Am and wants to hurt the company.
(c) The criminal penalty is the same whether he passes a phony check for $100 or $5000.
(d) His expenses get larger and he needs more money.

14. Why is it so hard for the FBI to find out anything about Frank?
(a) None of their usual informants know who he is.
(b) The phony checks are never left in the same place twice.
(c) His checks are very good forgeries.
(d) He is very average-looking and no one can describe him.

15. How does Frank convince a Miami bank manager to cash a personal check for $15,000?
(a) He uses a Pan Am expense check.
(b) He charms her into cashing the check for him.
(c) He convinces her that he is a lawyer.
(d) He convinces her that the money is pending on his Philadelphia account.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one way in which Frank is treated differently in Sweden than he is in France?

2. Why does Frank write his own name and address on the back of the blank expense check?

3. How does Frank give himself a head start before a bank can figure out that he is using phony checks?

4. How does Frank keep his stewardess interns from asking questions of other stewardesses they meet while they are traveling?

5. How does Frank survive Perpignan?

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