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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Frank's supervisor at the Attorney General's office treat him?
(a) Like a secretary.
(b) Like a competent attorney.
(c) Like a gopher.
(d) Like a future politician.

2. What does Frank do when he is released from the police station in New Orleans?
(a) He goes home to New York City.
(b) He decides to stay with a girlfriend in New Orleans.
(c) He deadheads to Atlanta.
(d) He buys a plane ticket to Atlanta.

3. Why does Frank feel safe from the law while he is working as an attorney?
(a) Because he does not pass any phony checks in almost two years.
(b) Because he thinks that the FBI forgets all about him by now.
(c) Because he no longer lives in New Orleans or Atlanta.
(d) Because he does not think the FBI thinks to look for him in the Attorney General's office.

4. What does Frank tell the Pan Am stores clerk about what happens to his wings and hat emblem?
(a) This is his first pair.
(b) He loses them.
(c) They are stolen.
(d) His two-year-old took them.

5. What incident scares Frank into thinking about resigning?
(a) He becomes faint at the sight of blood.
(b) A nurse becomes suspicious of him.
(c) He doesn't know what to do for a blue baby.
(d) He gets bored with the practice of medicine.

Short Answer Questions

1. When he realizes that airline employees are suspicious of him, how does Frank gather more information about his role as a pilot?

2. What event in his personal life serves as the trigger for Frank to become a juvenile delinquent?

3. Why is it lucky for Frank that he decides to buy a car?

4. What con does Frank commit at the very beginning of the book?

5. Why does Frank pretend to be a representative of Carib Air?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Frank manage to escape the New Orleans police?

2. How does Frank rely on Pan Am to help him?

3. How does Frank test his con before actually deadheading on a flight?

4. How does Frank's credit card scheme work?

5. First Frank poses as a pilot, then as a pediatrician. Do you see a pattern in his choices of role? Why do you think Frank chooses the roles that he does?

6. Is Frank well-respected by his new boss in the state's attorney's office?

7. What legitimate use can Frank make of his imagination and ability to do research?

8. Why do you think Frank gives different names to different stewardesses?

9. Looking back on his pilot con as he writes the book, do you think that Frank regrets his actions? Why or why not?

10. Why do you think that Frank is concerned when the pilot of the flight he is on does not let him listen to conversations with the tower on a courtesy headset?

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