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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Whose intervention saves Frank from being turned over to the FBI while he is in jail in Boston?
(a) A bail bondsman.
(b) A state trooper.
(c) A desk sergeant.
(d) A Pan Am pilot.

4. How does Frank eventually pay his bail bondsman?
(a) With a legitimate cashier's check.
(b) With a credit card.
(c) With a phony Pan Am check.
(d) With cash.

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

6. Who is the first individual Frank admits to conning out of money?
(a) A Miami prostitute.
(b) A bail bondsman.
(c) A college student intern.
(d) A Pan Am stewardess.

7. Who pays for the interns to travel around Europe?
(a) The University of Arizona.
(b) Pan Am.
(c) Papa Lavalier.
(d) Frank.

8. How does Frank keep his stewardess interns from asking questions of other stewardesses they meet while they are traveling?
(a) He tells them that they are sent home if they tell anyone what they are doing.
(b) He tells them that asking questions invalidates their internships.
(c) He tells them they are on a special assignment and should only ask questions of him personally.
(d) He tells them that they are part of an illegal scheme and are arrested if they tell anyone.

9. How does Frank convince the bank teller to give him the original check?
(a) He photocopies it for her.
(b) He tells her that it is evidence in a prosecution.
(c) He tells her that he gives it back later.
(d) He takes it when she is not paying attention.

10. Why doesn't Frank call his parents when he returns to New York?
(a) He is still angry about the divorce.
(b) He is too ashamed to face them.
(c) He does not want to have to lie to them.
(d) He fears that they turn him in.

11. How does Frank avoid being caught when the bank figures out that his check is phony?
(a) He poses as an FBI agent and confiscates the phony check.
(b) He changes to a different identity and avoids banks.
(c) He quickly leaves town.
(d) He decides to stay with a girlfriend for a few weeks.

12. What are living conditions like at Perpignan?
(a) Prisoners are given their own apartments.
(b) Prisoners are treated humanely, but have little to eat.
(c) Prisoners live in damp, dark cells with no sanitation.
(d) Prisoners come and go as they please on work release.

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

14. How does Frank manage to steal deposits from ordinary bank customers?
(a) He makes up account numbers and some turn out to be accurate.
(b) He finds out how to get account numbers from customers.
(c) He phones people pretending to be from their banks.
(d) He types his account number on a pile of deposit slips.

15. Why does Frank decide to swindle a bank back in the States?
(a) He overhears the banker treating an underling badly.
(b) He still needs more money.
(c) He likes the challenge of trying to rook money out of banks.
(d) He cannot stop conning people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Pan Am start an investigation?

2. What feature of a Boston airport gives Frank an idea for another con?

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

4. What does Frank pose as in Philadelphia?

5. Why does Frank feel it is important to pay the bail bondsman?

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