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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 does Monique break up with Frank?
(a) She wants to get married and settle down.
(b) She is jealous of Frank's summer interns.
(c) She figures out that he is a con man.
(d) She does not like Frank very well.

2. How does Frank keep his stewardess interns from asking questions of other stewardesses they meet while they are traveling?
(a) He tells them they are on a special assignment and should only ask questions of him personally.
(b) He tells them that they are part of an illegal scheme and are arrested if they tell anyone.
(c) He tells them that they are sent home if they tell anyone what they are doing.
(d) He tells them that asking questions invalidates their internships.

3. Where does Frank leave the checks and credit card receipts from his bank heist?
(a) In a locker at the bus station.
(b) In Boston's harbor.
(c) In the bathtub of his hotel room.
(d) In a suitcase in the airport.

4. How does Frank get the prison officials at the Federal Detention Center in Atlanta to treat him well?
(a) He poses as a lawyer.
(b) He poses as a doctor.
(c) He poses as a prison inspector.
(d) He poses as a newspaper reporter.

5. Why does Frank decide to start forging large corporate checks?
(a) He has a grudge against Pan Am and wants to hurt the company.
(b) The criminal penalty is the same whether he passes a phony check for $100 or $5000.
(c) His expenses get larger and he needs more money.
(d) It is easier to forge a corporate check than a personal check.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Frank's relatives lives near Montpellier?

2. Where does Frank go with the money he makes from his account deposit scheme?

3. Why is it so hard for the FBI to find out anything about Frank?

4. Who does Frank confess to?

5. Why does Pan Am start an investigation?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Frank's background as a fake airline pilot help him to escape when he is extradited to the United States?

2. Why does O'Riley tell Bailey that it serves him right that Frank pays him with a check?

3. How does Frank convince Papa Lavalier that he is a pilot for Pan Am?

4. How do you think Frank feels when he meets the Swedish police officers?

5. Why does O'Riley think that Frank must be 500 miles away when he hears that Frank makes bail?

6. How does Frank's plan to fill his account number in on a stack of deposit slips from the bank differ from his usual schemes?

7. When Frank realizes that he passes a check that has his real name and address on the back, he poses as an FBI agent to get it back. What other choices does he have? What can he do instead? How do his choices affect his future?

8. Why do you think that Frank chooses not to tell his grandparents that he is living in Montpellier?

9. How does Frank rely on stereotypes to get away with his cons?

10. How does Frank obtain a flight crew?

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