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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the vacationers headed to the Second Cataract travel to meet their cruise ship?
(a) By bus.
(b) By plane.
(c) By car.
(d) By train.

2. What is Mr. Richetti's profession?
(a) Anthropology.
(b) Archeology.
(c) Architecture.
(d) Accounting.

3. Why does Poirot tell Jackie at the end of chapter 7 that he feels sorry for her?
(a) She is a pitiful creature, obsessed with jealousy.
(b) She is only making people dislike her with her actions.
(c) She is poor and spending her last pennies to obsess over the Doyles.
(d) She has chosen a dangerous path.

4. Why does Poirot suggest that Linnet Doyle has put up with harassment on her honeymoon?
(a) She feels guilty for her own actions.
(b) She is not truly afraid.
(c) She likes how it makes her new husband overprotective.
(d) She likes the attention.

5. Where does Poirot decide to spend the final two hours before lunch in chapter 7?
(a) Shellal.
(b) Cairo.
(c) Elephantine Island.
(d) The hotel bar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Otterbourne insist on giving Poirot in chapter 3?

2. What has Linnet Ridgeway recently purchased that has caused a great deal of gossip?

3. To what astronomical body does Jackie compare Linnet?

4. What does Jackie claim to see while she is talking to Poirot in chapter 5?

5. At what table does Mrs. Allerton note in chapter 7 Jackie de Bellefort has been placed?

(see the answer key)

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