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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What bonus does Frank get from a Pan Am stewardess on vacation in Mexico?
(a) He gets more information about the way Pan Am works.
(b) He cashes a check for her and keeps her paycheck to use as a template.
(c) He finds out more about what Pan Am pilot's uniforms should look like.
(d) He gets a copy of her passport and starts printing his own passports.

4. What is Frank actually doing when FBI agent O'Riley shows up at the Boston jail to pick him up?
(a) He is on a plane to Paris.
(b) He is 500 miles away.
(c) He is hiding in the apartment of a girlfriend.
(d) He is at the airport stealing the money from the bank's night depository.

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 intends to give it to a friend who is going to mail him a package.
(c) He plans to give it to a fisherman to exchange pictures of Fords.
(d) He means to give it to his girlfriend so she is able to contact him later.

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

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

8. What is Frank's sentence at Perpignan Prison?
(a) Five years.
(b) One year.
(c) Six months.
(d) Ten years.

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

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

12. What is one way in which Frank is treated differently in Sweden than he is in France?
(a) He is provided with medical care.
(b) He is not allowed to bathe.
(c) He is not given room to move freely.
(d) He is not given enough to eat.

13. Where does Frank go in an attempt to escape the manhunt for him?
(a) New York City.
(b) Washington D.C..
(c) Las Vegas.
(d) Anchorage.

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

15. Why does Frank decide that he needs a flight crew?
(a) He hopes the crew make it harder for the FBI to trace him.
(b) Banks are starting to tell him that they don't believe he is a pilot.
(c) He likes the idea of having beautiful women around.
(d) It makes his check-cashing scheme more believable.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Frank convince the bank teller to give him the original check?

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

3. How does Frank manage to leave the Federal Detention Center?

4. Which of the following activities is Frank the first known check forger ever to do?

5. Which of Frank's relatives lives near Montpellier?

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