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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. James seems unconcerned by Poirot's accusations and even does what during the exchange?
(a) Calmly drinks tea
(b) Accuses Poirot of the murder
(c) Walks into the other room
(d) Yawns

2. In the start of Chapter Fourteen, the narrator tells the reader that after Monday night Poirot and whom went their separate ways?
(a) James
(b) Flora
(c) Caroline
(d) Raymond

3. Why doesn't Poirot want James to be arrested?
(a) To protect Caroline's feelings
(b) Because he and James have become friends
(c) Because he still needs more information from James
(d) Because he knows James didn't mean to commit murder

4. Where does Caroline think Ralph is?
(a) Manchester
(b) Cranchester
(c) Winchester
(d) Worcester

5. How does James identify Kent?
(a) His footprints
(b) His fingerprints
(c) His face
(d) His voice

6. Who is not going to the meeting?
(a) Caroline
(b) James
(c) Poirot
(d) Ursula

7. Flora confesses to what part of the mystery?
(a) Murdering her uncle
(b) Stealing the $40 from her uncle's room
(c) The blackmail
(d) Knowing Ralph's whereabouts

8. Miss Ganett thinks who might be guilty of the crime?
(a) Ralph
(b) Mrs. Ackroyd
(c) Parker
(d) Flora

9. Poirot thinks that the killer used the chair to conceal what item on the table?
(a) A dictaphone
(b) The will
(c) A letter
(d) A wine glass

10. Poirot and James next go to confront whom?
(a) Mrs. Ackroyd
(b) Parker
(c) Miss Russell
(d) Charles Kent

11. When they return from their walk, whom do Poirot and James find in James' house?
(a) Flora
(b) Ursula
(c) Raymond
(d) Parker

12. Who tries to save Flora from her confession by confessing to the same thing?
(a) Raymond
(b) Blunt
(c) Miss Russell
(d) James

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

14. Caroline tells James that what event happened at Poirot's house today?
(a) There was a fire.
(b) There was a female visitor.
(c) There was a male visitor.
(d) There was an unusual noise.

15. Who is Charles Kent?
(a) A salesman
(b) The police officer who called
(c) The stranger James saw
(d) The milk man

Short Answer Questions

1. Caroline sends James to give what to Poirot?

2. Poirot thinks Kent may be what?

3. Poirot theorizes that Blunt did not hear Mr. Ackroyd at 9:30 the night he died because it was actually what?

4. What unusual name does Poirot call Ursula?

5. Half an hour before Mr. Ackroyd's death, Ursula met whom in the summer house?

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