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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. Why is Frank so determined to raise money?
(a) He wants to save for college.
(b) He wants to travel.
(c) He wants to buy a car.
(d) He wants to go on dates with girls.

2. How does Frank pay for his hotel bill while he is traveling as a pilot?
(a) He uses a Pan Am check that he forges.
(b) He has the hotels bill Pan Am for his rooms.
(c) He uses a phony check.
(d) He uses a real check from an overdrawn account.

3. Why does Frank decide to stop posing as a pilot for a while?
(a) He is arrested in New Orleans for having suspicious credentials.
(b) He is tired of flying around the country and wants to settle down.
(c) He wants to see what other professions he can pass himself off as.
(d) One of his phony checks is not accepted when he tries to cash it.

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

5. What event in his personal life serves as the trigger for Frank to become a juvenile delinquent?
(a) Moving in with his father.
(b) His parents' divorce.
(c) Getting his first credit card.
(d) His first arrest.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Frank earn a living when he first runs away from home?

3. What is Frank's biggest complaint about the reformatory?

4. What does Frank's ability to pass the bar exam prove?

5. Why does Frank end up leaving his job as an attorney?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Frank need money in order to pursue his interest in girls?

2. Describe Frank's method for finding out the things he needs to know.

3. 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?

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

5. What is the overall tone of Chapter One, "The Fledgling"?

6. How does his job as a doctor fit into Frank's plans for living in Atlanta?

7. 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.

8. What changes happen at home while Frank is away at the reformatory?

9. 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?

10. How does Frank feel about not being entrusted with any actual legal work?

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