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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 technology, which does not exist at the time, might have stopped Frank's crime spree?
(a) Pagers.
(b) Cell phones.
(c) Video surveillance cameras.
(d) Computer networking.

2. Why is Frank forced to pose as a lawyer?
(a) An old girlfriend remembers that he tells her he has a law degree from Harvard.
(b) He wants to find a job where he cannot accidentally kill anyone.
(c) He needs a job that allows him to avoid the FBI.
(d) He is looking for a job that helps him to earn a good salary.

3. Why does Frank later realize that it is just as well that he leaves Atlanta when he does?
(a) Because patients at the hospital where he works are complaining.
(b) Because he is easily identified by any of the people he works with.
(c) Because a paper trail leads straight to his apartment at River Bend.
(d) Because he has an FBI inspector concentrating on his case alone now.

4. What explanation does Frank give the state's attorney's office for his decision to stop working as a pilot?
(a) He says that flying does not present him with enough of a challenge.
(b) He explains that he never really works for Pan Am.
(c) He says that he is furloughed because of personnel cutbacks.
(d) He explains that he wants to settle down and work in one location.

5. How does Frank prove that he really is employed by Pan Am?
(a) He shows the officers his phony I.D. and pilot's license.
(b) He has the officers call Pan Am's business office and ask about him.
(c) He convinces the officers by talking and using terminology only a pilot would know.
(d) He gives the officers names of pilots and stewardesses who can vouch for him.

Short Answer Questions

1. When he realizes that airline employees are suspicious of him, how does Frank gather more information about his role as a pilot?

2. How does Frank's father react to his reversal in fortune?

3. How does Frank's father's financial situation change during the first chapter?

4. What does Frank decide to do to make it possible for him to cash more bad checks?

5. Why does Frank leave his $1.50/hour job?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do changes in technology make Frank's con harder to pull off today?

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

3. 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?

4. How does his job as a doctor fit into Frank's plans for living in Atlanta?

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

6. Frank manages to avoid being caught for several years. Imagine, though, that he is caught. How do you think he is caught earlier? How much of his good fortune is luck and how much is skill?

7. How does Frank test his con before actually deadheading on a flight?

8. What is Frank's pattern of preparing himself for a new role?

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

10. Describe Frank's appearance.

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