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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do each of the four sleuths reveal a preference for in Chapter 8?
(a) Investigative techniques.
(b) Interviewing suspects.
(c) Boudoir selections.
(d) Crime scene notes.

2. How does the second interview go?
(a) Ends abruptly.
(b) It is delayed.
(c) More quickly than the first.
(d) More slowly than the first.

3. How does Dr. Roberts rate Miss Meredith as a card player?
(a) Safe.
(b) Over-bids.
(c) First-rate.
(d) Sound.

4. How does Dr. Roberts respond to questions about his personal life and practice?
(a) Affably.
(b) Angrily.
(c) Fearfully.
(d) Secretively.

5. What objects does Mrs. Lorrimer describe to Poirot?
(a) Rugs and couches.
(b) Paintings and vases.
(c) Flowers and Oriental pictures.
(d) Tables and chairs.

6. What do the sleuths sort through in order to identify the murderer?
(a) Bottles and drinks.
(b) Dinner remains.
(c) Wastepaper baskets.
(d) Clues and evidence.

7. Who visits Dr. Roberts in Chapter 9?
(a) Shaitana and Poirot.
(b) Maj. Depard and Mrs. Lorrimer.
(c) Superintendent Battle and Hercule Poirot.
(d) Mrs. Oliver and Col. Race.

8. What does Poirot ask Mrs. Lorrimer to tell him about the night of the murder?
(a) Conversation that she had with Col. Race.
(b) Furnishings in the room.
(c) The cards that she gave to Miss Meredith.
(d) How she is feeling that night.

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

10. What do the four sleuths decide they must appear to be investigating, by the end of Chapter 8?
(a) Motive for the death of a patient.
(b) Psychological motives for all suspects.
(c) Shaitana's murder.
(d) Crime scene investigations approved by the police.

11. What does Shaitana call a woman's weapon?
(a) Poison.
(b) Sarcasm.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Modesty.

12. How can vital clues be found from suspects, according to Poirot?
(a) Digging into their pasts.
(b) Interrogating them till dawn.
(c) Wire-tapping their homes.
(d) Torturing them.

13. Whose testimony does Mrs. Lorrimer confirm?
(a) Miss Meredith.
(b) Col. Race.
(c) Poirot.
(d) Dr. Roberts.

14. When the four sleuths enter the other room to say goodnight, what do they see?
(a) The bridge game in progress.
(b) Miss Meredith snoring.
(c) Mrs. Lorrimer sewing.
(d) Shaitana fighting with Major Despard.

15. Who does Mrs. Lorrimer talk to about wood fires during the night of the murder?
(a) Oliver.
(b) Battle.
(c) Poirot.
(d) Shaitana.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Mrs. Lorrimer meet Shaitana?

2. Who is Superintendent Battle partnered with?

3. What do they discover about Shaitana's set up for the evening?

4. What does the sleuth find in Dr. Roberts' files?

5. What is Mrs. Lorrimer able to describe in minute detail to Poirot?

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