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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. Poirot tells James that he knows James arranged the phone call because of what?
(a) Caroline told him about a patient of James' who turned out to have made the call.
(b) The steward who made the call for James came back on his own and confessed.
(c) The station master told Poirot that the person who made the call said James asked him to.
(d) Ralph was clearly being framed by James.

2. What was discovered about Parker when James and Poirot questioned him?
(a) He stole the money.
(b) He blackmailed his former employer.
(c) He knew the owner of the ring.
(d) He blackmailed Mr. Ackroyd.

3. Who summons James to his/her bedside?
(a) Flora
(b) Poirot
(c) Mrs. Ackroyd
(d) Caroline

4. Poirot agrees with James about what regarding the murder?
(a) The murderer and blackmailer may be different people.
(b) The murderer and blackmailer are probably working together.
(c) The murderer and blackmailer are probably the same person.
(d) Ralph is probably either the murderer or the blackmailer.

5. What does Poirot show James an article about?
(a) The murder of Roger Ackroyd
(b) Cocaine smuggling
(c) Ralph's disappearance
(d) A lot of recent thefts in the area

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Poirot eliminate Parker as the person who made the call?

2. Poirot suggests what to the Inspector about Flora?

3. Caroline tells James that which person stopped in looking for Poirot?

4. Poirot says that he wishes his old friend were around to do what?

5. Who is not going to the meeting?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Poirot ask Caroline to do, in Chapter Fourteen, and what is the result?

2. In Chapter Twenty-four, Poirot's maid walks in with what object and what significance does it have?

3. Who do James and Caroline invite over, in Chapter Sixteen, and why?

4. In Chapter Twenty-three, Poirot insinuates that nobody was actually in the room when Mr. Ackroyd died. How does he account for the conversation that was heard?

5. In Chapter Twenty, Poirot and James go to see Miss Russell because Poirot wants to confront her about what?

6. In Chapter Nineteen, when Poirot and the others visit Flora, what does she confess?

7. In Chapter Twenty-one, what does Poirot ask James to do, regarding people at Fernly Park?

8. As a result of Mr. Ackroyd announcing Ralph's engagement to Flora, what did Ursula do?

9. What idea does Poirot have about why Charles Kent went to Fernly Park the night of the murder?

10. What is learned about Charles Kent, the stranger James met, in Chapter Eighteen, that would make him seem like a suspect?

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