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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following activities is Frank the first known check forger ever to do?
(a) Travel around the country while forging checks.
(b) Manipulate the routing numbers on the bottom of checks.
(c) Print his own checks with a printing press.
(d) Steal such a large amount of money in such a short time.

2. What does Frank expect happens when he is released from Perpignan?
(a) He is sent to a more humane French prison.
(b) He is released on parole.
(c) He has to stand trial in another European country.
(d) He is sent home to the United States.

3. How much does Frank make from his heist of the bank's night depository?
(a) More than $10,000.00.
(b) More than a million dollars.
(c) More than $20,000.00.
(d) More than $62,000.00.

4. 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) He is very average-looking and no one can describe him.
(c) His checks are very good forgeries.
(d) The phony checks are never left in the same place twice.

5. How does Frank convince the Boston desk sergeant to let him keep his pilot's license and I.D. card?
(a) He argues that he cannot do any harm with them in a jail cell.
(b) He threatens to call his lawyer and sues the police station.
(c) He cites his constitutional rights.
(d) He says that company regulations require him to keep them on him at all times.

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

7. 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 is thinking of moving in with his grandparents.
(c) He is considering returning to school.
(d) He hopes to get a legitimate job working for an airline.

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

9. What does Frank promise the Swedish judge who releases him to the United States?
(a) He goes straight after he serves his prison time.
(b) He returns to Sweden.
(c) He continues his art education.
(d) He returns to France.

10. Why does Monique break up with Frank?
(a) She figures out that he is a con man.
(b) She is jealous of Frank's summer interns.
(c) She wants to get married and settle down.
(d) She does not like Frank very well.

11. Where does Frank leave the checks and credit card receipts from his bank heist?
(a) In Boston's harbor.
(b) In the bathtub of his hotel room.
(c) In a locker at the bus station.
(d) In a suitcase in the airport.

12. What are prisoners at Perpignan expected to use as a toilet?
(a) A bucket that is rarely emptied.
(b) An outhouse.
(c) An ordinary toilet.
(d) A hole in the ground.

13. What does Frank pose as in Philadelphia?
(a) A university professor.
(b) A construction company executive.
(c) A pilot.
(d) A lawyer.

14. Which of the following is an example of Frank's "code of honor"?
(a) He never steals money from the interns.
(b) He refuses to sleep with any of the interns.
(c) He insists on cashing the interns' checks himself.
(d) He refuses to send any more business to Papa Lavalier.

15. Why is Frank almost caught because of one of his corporate expense checks?
(a) He forgets he writes his own name and address on the back.
(b) He does not realize the FBI is tracking his phony checks.
(c) He passes a phony check to the same bank teller twice.
(d) The check is not a good forgery and it is detected.

Short Answer Questions

1. While he is watching the bank, Frank is approached by ____________________ who know his real identity.

2. What are living conditions like at Perpignan?

3. Why does Frank decide to leave for Montpellier, France?

4. How does Frank eventually pay his bail bondsman?

5. How many of Frank's interns begin to suspect that he is duping them?

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