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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who has to leave a little after midnight to go home?
(a) Miss Meredith.
(b) Major Despard.
(c) Colonel Race.
(d) Hercule Poirot.

2. Who is seated by the fire?
(a) Mrs. Lorrimer.
(b) Major Despard.
(c) Shaitana.
(d) Miss Meredith.

3. What is Poirot's theory for identifying the suspect?
(a) Lock them up.
(b) Psychological study.
(c) Deprive them of food and water.
(d) Interrogate them till dawn.

4. What does Lorrimer do when she sees the stiletto?
(a) Becomes fearful.
(b) Screams in delight.
(c) Views dispassionately.
(d) Cries passionately.

5. What do the men do during the bridge game that is different from the women?
(a) Belch and fart.
(b) Steal and fight.
(c) Smoke and laugh a lot.
(d) Poke the fire and get drinks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the four sleuths decide they must appear to be investigating, by the end of Chapter 8?

2. Who approaches Shaitana to say goodbye?

3. What do each of the four sleuths reveal a preference for in Chapter 8?

4. Who does Mrs. Lorrimer talk to about wood fires during the night of the murder?

5. Where was Miss Meredith born?

(see the answer key)

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