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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 father's financial situation change during the first chapter?
(a) He loses his job and is unemployed.
(b) He rises from his job as a postal clerk to become a businessman.
(c) He leaves his job as a businessman and becomes a politician.
(d) He goes from being a businessman to being a postal clerk.

2. Where does Frank get the Pan Am logo for his I.D. card?
(a) He draws it himself and puts it on his card.
(b) He gets it from the company that makes the I.D. cards.
(c) He takes it off a model airplane from a hobby shop.
(d) He takes it from a Pan Am brochure.

3. What does Frank's ability to pass the bar exam prove?
(a) He is smart enough to finish school and get a good job.
(b) It is easy to cheat on the bar exam.
(c) Frank should stay in his job as an attorney.
(d) Anyone can be a lawyer.

4. What explanation does Frank give the state's attorney's office for his decision to stop working as a pilot?
(a) He explains that he never really works for Pan Am.
(b) He says that flying does not present him with enough of a challenge.
(c) He explains that he wants to settle down and work in one location.
(d) He says that he is furloughed because of personnel cutbacks.

5. Where does a deadheading pilot sit on a plane?
(a) In an extra seat in coach.
(b) In a jumpseat in the cockpit.
(c) In the copilot's seat.
(d) In an extra seat in first class.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why doesn't Frank move back to New Orleans when his girlfriend is transferred?

3. What does Frank give as his address when he stays at hotels?

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

5. Why does Frank leave his $1.50/hour job?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think that presenting himself as a jokester helps Frank to be accepted and look as though he knows what he is doing in the hospital?

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

3. What is Frank's pattern of preparing himself for a new role?

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

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

6. Does Frank manage to fool everyone in his new position as a lawyer?

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

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

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

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

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