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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Everyone at the meeting is shocked by what?
(a) An unexpected phone call
(b) The police arriving
(c) Ursula and Ralph being married
(d) Ralph showing up

2. Poirot says that he wishes his old friend were around to do what?
(a) Interview suspects.
(b) Keep a record of the case facts.
(c) Add more original ideas to the investigation.
(d) Keep him company.

3. Where did Ralph go into hiding?
(a) A home for the mentally ill
(b) A secret room in Fernly Park
(c) James' house
(d) The summer house

4. Miss Ganett and whom visit James and Caroline?
(a) Colonel Carter
(b) Mr. Poirot
(c) Inspector Raglan
(d) Flora

5. Poirot suggests that, rather than be arrested, James does what?
(a) Overdose on sleeping pills
(b) Hide at the inn
(c) Leave town
(d) Hide in Poirot's attic

6. Ralph wanted to conceal his marriage to Ursula until he could do what?
(a) Slowly get his uncle used to the idea.
(b) Break up with Flora gently.
(c) Move away.
(d) Get out of financial trouble.

7. Who walks into the meeting with a telegram?
(a) A young boy from town
(b) Poirot's maid
(c) Mr. Hammond
(d) Caroline

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

9. When they visit Flora, they find her with whom?
(a) Her mother
(b) Blunt
(c) Parker
(d) Raymond

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

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

12. Who does not go to Liverpool to see Charles Kent?
(a) Inspector Raglan
(b) James
(c) Flora
(d) Poirot

13. Ursula comes from what sort of family background?
(a) Orphaned at a young age
(b) Abusive family
(c) Wealthy family
(d) Poor family

14. What does Poirot ask Caroline to find out about Ralph's shoes?
(a) Size
(b) Type
(c) Who else owns similar shoes
(d) Color

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do James and Poirot ask Mr. Hammond about?

2. Flora confesses to what part of the mystery?

3. What unusual name does Poirot call Ursula?

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

5. Mrs. Ackroyd says that Ursula once caught her doing what?

(see the answer keys)

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