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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. Where does Frank go when he leaves his job at the Attorney General's office?
(a) He goes West.
(b) He stays in the South.
(c) He returns home to New York.
(d) He goes to the Pacific Northwest.

2. How does Frank get to know the staff at a pediatric hospital?
(a) He poses as a student writer and interviews hospital staff members.
(b) He does research on the staff by looking up doctors in the hospital directory.
(c) A doctor friend takes him there and introduces him to the staff.
(d) He hangs around the hospital to prepare for his new role.

3. What does Frank need to fill out in order to deadhead on a flight?
(a) A blue slip.
(b) A green slip.
(c) A pink slip.
(d) A red slip.

4. How does Frank find a place to stay after he runs away?
(a) He convinces a friend's parents that he is an orphan.
(b) He forges checks to pay for hotel rooms.
(c) He becomes homeless and has to live on the streets.
(d) He puts his apartment rent on his credit card bill.

5. How does Frank's father react to his reversal in fortune?
(a) He is broken by it.
(b) He does not care one way or the other.
(c) He is philosophical about it.
(d) He is determined to turn things around.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Frank tell the Pan Am stores clerk about what happens to his wings and hat emblem?

3. What explanation does Frank give the state's attorney's office for his decision to stop working as a pilot?

4. Why does Frank feel safe from the law while he is working as an attorney?

5. What does Frank decide to do after traveling through the western United States?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe Frank's appearance.

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. 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.

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

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