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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. Who helps Frank to get a passport?
(a) A Mexican politician.
(b) A writer with political influence in Mexico.
(c) Pan Am's Mexico City office.
(d) The American embassy in Mexico City.

2. Where is Frank apprehended by the French police?
(a) At his grandparents' house.
(b) As he is getting into his car.
(c) In a grocery store.
(d) In Armand's vineyards.

3. Who is the first individual Frank admits to conning out of money?
(a) A college student intern.
(b) A bail bondsman.
(c) A Pan Am stewardess.
(d) A Miami prostitute.

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

5. Which of the following is an example of Frank's "code of honor"?
(a) He insists on cashing the interns' checks himself.
(b) He refuses to sleep with any of the interns.
(c) He refuses to send any more business to Papa Lavalier.
(d) He never steals money from the interns.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Frank confess to?

2. Why does Pan Am start an investigation?

3. Why doesn't Frank answer Jan's questions at first?

4. Which of the following is an important part of Frank's summer intern scheme?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe living conditions for prisoners at Perpignan Prison.

2. 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?

3. Why can't the American consulate intervene on Frank's behalf and get him out of Perpignan?

4. Why do you think that Frank stops using Papa Lavalier's printing shop?

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

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

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

8. Why do you think that Frank pays the expenses for his crew of interns personally rather than coming up with a scheme for getting Pan Am to pay them?

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

10. Why does Frank feel that he needs a flight crew?

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