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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Frank survive Perpignan?
(a) He imagines that he is somewhere else.
(b) He embarks on an exercise program.
(c) He goes temporarily insane.
(d) He talks to other prisoners.

2. How does Frank dupe Cheryl?
(a) He pays her with a credit card that is over its limit.
(b) He convinces her that he pays her in a few days when he gets paid.
(c) He pays her with a worthless check, so she doesn't get paid at all.
(d) He pays her with a phony check, and she gives him $400.00 in change.

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

4. Why can't the American Consulate intervene on Frank's behalf?
(a) Because Frank is not behaving well in prison.
(b) Because Frank commits the crimes for which he is tried.
(c) Because Frank is being treated exactly like the French prisoners.
(d) Because Frank also commits crimes in the United States.

5. How does Frank give himself a head start before a bank can figure out that he is using phony checks?
(a) He cashes checks under a different name than the one he is traveling under.
(b) He uses checks in which the bank indicatese routing number is not the bank listed on the check. by th
(c) He uses checks issued by a bank in another city.
(d) He cashes checks late in the day so they are not processed right away.

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

7. How does Frank escape the federal officials who are surrounding his hotel?
(a) He poses as a lawyer who is a guest of the hotel.
(b) He poses as an FBI agent and asks for O'Riley.
(c) He poses as a plainclothes police officer.
(d) He poses as a member of the hotel's wait staff.

8. How does Frank get the prison officials at the Federal Detention Center in Atlanta to treat him well?
(a) He poses as a lawyer.
(b) He poses as a newspaper reporter.
(c) He poses as a prison inspector.
(d) He poses as a doctor.

9. How does Frank get himself out of the Fulton County Jail?
(a) He phones the desk sergeant posing as a doctor and claims that Frank Abagnale is diabetic.
(b) He manages to steal a set of keys from a guard.
(c) He gets a bail bondsman to bail him out.
(d) He poses as a lawyer for one of the other prisoners and convinces the guard to let him out.

10. Why doesn't Frank return to visit his parents while he is in New York City living as a fugitive from the police and the FBI?
(a) He thinks that they may turn him in to the authorities.
(b) He does not want to see them.
(c) He fears their homes are under surveillance.
(d) He is embarrassed to have them know he is a fugitive.

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

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

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

14. How does Frank award himself a bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Arizona?
(a) He slips a student file for himself in the pile with the prospective intern files.
(b) He sneaks into the registrar's office and sets up a file.
(c) He makes a copy of a degree and then forges his own diplomas.
(d) He decides to return to school at the university when the summer is over.

15. How does Frank get a security guard's uniform?
(a) He does not bother with a uniform.
(b) He just wears his Pan Am pilot's uniform instead.
(c) He makes one himself.
(d) He gets one from a uniform supply company.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Frank confess to?

2. Why does Frank decide to swindle a bank back in the States?

3. What does Frank promise the Swedish judge who releases him to the United States?

4. Why does Frank decide that he needs a flight crew?

5. Who is Frank released to when he leaves Perpignan?

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