Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake

Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-book review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. Frank’s earliest scam includes using his gas card to get money to finance dates with women. Why might his father empathize with him? 

A) Frank’s father recognizes that his son is young and stupid.

B) Frank’s father has also been charmed by women and sees himself in his son.

C) Frank’s father has also gone through a phase of petty crime and believes that his son will grow out of it.

D) Frank’s father sees that Frank is coping with his parents’ divorce and feels partly responsible for his acting out.

2. What is the effect of Frank beginning the memoir by saying that a Virginia psychiatrist determined that Frank has a low criminal threshold?

A) It sets the reader up to be on Frank’s side for the rest of the book, even as he commits a variety of crimes.

B) It makes the reader wonder what it really means to be a criminal.

C) It suggests that criminality is in the eye of the beholder. Frank didn’t see himself as a criminal, so why would the reader?

D) It helps us to see that Frank doesn’t really know who he is.

3. What is the common thread between many of Frank’s assumed professions?