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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Frank confess to?
(a) The FBI agent who is chasing him.
(b) His lover, Rosalie.
(c) A female bank manager.
(d) His friend, the fisherman.

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

3. 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 is embarrassed to have them know he is a fugitive.
(b) He does not want to see them.
(c) He fears their homes are under surveillance.
(d) He thinks that they may turn him in to the authorities.

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

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

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

7. How does Frank describe Rosalie?
(a) Easy to manipulate.
(b) Dishonest and unfaithful.
(c) Loyal and honest.
(d) Desperate for attention.

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

9. Why does Frank go to Vermont?
(a) To hide from the police.
(b) To settle down for good.
(c) To try posing as a banker.
(d) To meditate on his life.

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

11. Why does it help Frank to have Pan Am checks with Pan Am's bank account number printed on them?
(a) Bank tellers get suspicious if they see a number that is not the real account number.
(b) When banks call to verify the amounts, Pan Am's bank confirms that there is enough money to pay the check.
(c) Banks check the account numbers against a list of account numbers that they have.
(d) The bank account number makes the checks look more real.

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

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

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

15. Why does Frank feel it is important to pay the bail bondsman?
(a) He hopes the bail bondman does not talk to O'Riley if he is paid.
(b) He likes the bail bondsman personally.
(c) He thinks he may need to be bailed out again some other day.
(d) His code of honor requires it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Frank decide to start forging large corporate checks?

2. How does Frank get himself out of the Fulton County Jail?

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

4. Why does Pan Am start an investigation?

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

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