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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 prove that he really is employed by Pan Am?
(a) He convinces the officers by talking and using terminology only a pilot would know.
(b) He has the officers call Pan Am's business office and ask about him.
(c) He gives the officers names of pilots and stewardesses who can vouch for him.
(d) He shows the officers his phony I.D. and pilot's license.

2. How long does Frank usually stay in a new apartment?
(a) Long enough to throw the police off his trail.
(b) Long enough to have a new box of checks delivered to him.
(c) Long enough to finish a relationship with his current girlfriend.
(d) Long enough to wait until his next deadhead flight.

3. Why does Frank decide to pose as a pediatrician?
(a) He happens to meet a doctor who works at a local hospital.
(b) He hopes he can earn a good income as a doctor.
(c) He knows the FBI is looking for a fake pilot.
(d) He wants to be a doctor.

4. When he realizes that airline employees are suspicious of him, how does Frank gather more information about his role as a pilot?
(a) He uses a method of trial and error.
(b) He goes to the library.
(c) He reads airline magazines.
(d) He conducts more interviews.

5. Why does Frank tell the sales representative that he needs to order 200 I.D. cards when he really only needs one for himself?
(a) He wants to keep a few extras just in case.
(b) At first he thinks he needs 200 cards.
(c) So that the salesman believes him.
(d) He plans to sell ID cards to other criminals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "deadheading"?

2. What skills must Frank possess in order to pass himself off as a doctor?

3. Why is Frank forced to pose as a lawyer?

4. What does Frank need to fill out in order to deadhead on a flight?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Does Frank feel that he is in any danger of being caught when he begins working as a lawyer?

2. Describe Frank's appearance.

3. How do changes in technology make Frank's con harder to pull off today?

4. 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?

5. Do you think that Frank wants to pose as a pilot only because he wants to cash bad checks? Or is there some other reason? Please explain.

6. Why do you think Frank thinks it is important never to wear his uniform around his apartment building?

7. What skills do you think Frank needs to have in order to pass himself off as a pilot?

8. Why does Frank feel safe perpetuating his scams? Why do you think he is not more worried about being caught?

9. Frank manages to avoid being caught for several years. Imagine, though, that he is caught. How do you think he is caught earlier? How much of his good fortune is luck and how much is skill?

10. What are the drawbacks, for Frank, of working as a doctor?

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