View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Frank get himself out of the Fulton County Jail?
(a) He manages to steal a set of keys from a guard.
(b) He phones the desk sergeant posing as a doctor and claims that Frank Abagnale is diabetic.
(c) He poses as a lawyer for one of the other prisoners and convinces the guard to let him out.
(d) He gets a bail bondsman to bail him out.

2. What is Frank actually doing when FBI agent O'Riley shows up at the Boston jail to pick him up?
(a) He is on a plane to Paris.
(b) He is hiding in the apartment of a girlfriend.
(c) He is 500 miles away.
(d) He is at the airport stealing the money from the bank's night depository.

3. What plans does Frank make for his future while he is living in Montpellier?
(a) He is considering returning to school.
(b) He is thinking of moving in with his grandparents.
(c) He plans to loaf for the rest of his life.
(d) He hopes to get a legitimate job working for an airline.

4. Why does Frank decide to swindle a bank back in the States?
(a) He cannot stop conning people.
(b) He overhears the banker treating an underling badly.
(c) He likes the challenge of trying to rook money out of banks.
(d) He still needs more money.

5. Why does Pan Am start an investigation?
(a) Frank has proofs from the photo sessions sent to Pan Am's offices.
(b) A Pan Am pilot sees Frank in Europe and becomes suspicious.
(c) Pan Am begins to realize that its checks are being forged.
(d) Frank brazenly tells Pan Am what he is doing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frank learn from Pixie, the commercial artist?

2. Why does Monique break up with Frank?

3. How does Frank convince the bank teller to give him the original check?

4. How much does Frank make by stealing money from small deposits that people make at the bank?

5. What is one way in which Frank is treated differently in Sweden than he is in France?

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 Frank decide to take his criminal activities to the next level, and steal more money than he is taking before?

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

4. How does Frank survive Perpignan?

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

6. What do you think is Frank's opinion of women?

7. How do you think Frank expects Rosalie to react when he tells her who he really is?

8. Describe living conditions for prisoners at Perpignan Prison.

9. When and why does Frank make an exception to his policy of never defrauding individuals?

10. How does Frank get himself out of the Fulton County jail?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,056 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample