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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 is planning to expand his operations dramatically.
(c) He thinks printing so many makes him look like he really does work for Pan Am.
(d) He anticipates needing that many checks to pay for his European vacation.

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

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

5. Why does Frank write his own name and address on the back of the blank expense check?
(a) He forgets that the piece of paper he is writing on is a check.
(b) He plans to give it to a fisherman to exchange pictures of Fords.
(c) He means to give it to his girlfriend so she is able to contact him later.
(d) He intends to give it to a friend who is going to mail him a package.

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

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

8. How does Frank manage to buy an I-Tek camera and printing press?
(a) He claims that he plans to open a newspaper.
(b) He claims that he is a commercial artist.
(c) He claims that he is working for a publisher.
(d) He claims that he is opening his own print shop.

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

10. Who helps Frank to get a passport?
(a) The American embassy in Mexico City.
(b) A Mexican politician.
(c) Pan Am's Mexico City office.
(d) A writer with political influence in Mexico.

11. 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.

12. What does Frank learn from Pixie, the commercial artist?
(a) With an I-Tek camera and a printing press he can print his own checks.
(b) Las Vegas is the perfect place for him to operate for a while.
(c) The routing numbers on checks tell where a bank is located.
(d) The FBI are still looking for him and they are getting closer.

13. 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) The check is not a good forgery and it is detected.
(c) He does not realize the FBI is tracking his phony checks.
(d) He passes a phony check to the same bank teller twice.

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

15. Who is Frank released to when he leaves Perpignan?
(a) The Swedish police.
(b) The Swiss police.
(c) The British police.
(d) The Italian police.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is an example of Frank's "code of honor"?

3. How does Frank get a flight crew to travel with him?

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

5. Why can't the American Consulate intervene on Frank's behalf?

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