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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. What does Frank tell his girlfriend when he leaves town and abandons his job as a lawyer?
(a) That he is gone for a few weeks because of a death in the family.
(b) That he is leaving for good because the FBI is chasing him.
(c) That he is rehired by Pan Am.
(d) That he is transferred to another state.

2. Where does Frank get the Pan Am logo for his I.D. card?
(a) He takes it off a model airplane from a hobby shop.
(b) He draws it himself and puts it on his card.
(c) He gets it from the company that makes the I.D. cards.
(d) He takes it from a Pan Am brochure.

3. What does Frank do when he is released from the police station in New Orleans?
(a) He deadheads to Atlanta.
(b) He decides to stay with a girlfriend in New Orleans.
(c) He goes home to New York City.
(d) He buys a plane ticket to Atlanta.

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

5. When he realizes that airline employees are suspicious of him, how does Frank gather more information about his role as a pilot?
(a) He conducts more interviews.
(b) He uses a method of trial and error.
(c) He goes to the library.
(d) He reads airline magazines.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "deadheading"?

2. Why does Frank have a checking account?

3. Where does Frank go when he leaves his job at the Attorney General's office?

4. How does Frank test out what he learns about airline terms and procedures?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Do you think that Frank's con works today? Why or why not?

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

4. How does Frank rely on Pan Am to help him?

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

6. How does Frank's father feel about Frank?

7. Why do you think that presenting himself as a jokester helps Frank to be accepted and look as though he knows what he is doing in the hospital?

8. 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?

9. Looking back on his pilot con as he writes the book, do you think that Frank regrets his actions? Why or why not?

10. Does Frank manage to fool everyone in his new position as a lawyer?

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