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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. Why is Flora worried about Ralph?
(a) She hasn't seen him for a week.
(b) He is sick.
(c) She saw him with a woman.
(d) She thinks the police suspect him.

2. Officer Davis questions James about the blackmailer because it was mentioned to him by whom?
(a) Parker
(b) Raymond
(c) Blunt
(d) Flora

3. John's sister's name is?
(a) Candace
(b) Connie
(c) Caroline
(d) Carlotta

4. John's last name is?
(a) Sanford
(b) Samson
(c) Sherwood
(d) Sheppard

5. After dinner, what does Mr. Ackroyd tell James about Mr. Ferrars' death?
(a) Mrs. Ferrars confessed to him that she murdered her husband.
(b) Mrs. Ferrars told him that Mr. Ferrars was murdered by his friend.
(c) Mr. Ackroyd killed Mr. Ferrars.
(d) Mr. Ferrars probably died naturally.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter One, who has died?

2. What item was moved at the crime scene?

3. Who is Mrs. Cecil Ackroyd?

4. Who tells Mr. Ackroyd that they are being blackmailed?

5. Mr. Poirot lives where?

Short Essay Questions

1. What important clue is found by Poirot in the pond, and what initial was inscribed on it?

2. Describe the murder weapon. What was it, where did it come from, and where was it usually kept?

3. Describe what Mr. Ackroyd confides to James, in Chapter Four.

4. Explain the relationship, in Chapter One, between Dr. James Sheppard and his sister, Caroline.

5. What is the Intelligence Corps and what role does it play, in Chapter One?

6. Describe clues that everyone tells the police and that the police themselves find, after Mr. Ackroyd's body is discovered, in Chapter Five.

7. All evidence is beginning to point to Ralph as the possible blackmailer, including what?

8. What two important clues were found by Poirot and James, at the end of Chapter Eight, and where were they found?

9. Describe James and Caroline's new neighbor, Mr. Poirot, using information from Chapter Three.

10. In Chapter One, what is Caroline's theory about Mrs. Ferrars' death and the death of Mr. Ferrars a year ago?

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