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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mrs. Ackroyd asks James to discuss what with Mr. Ackroyd?
(a) Mr. Ackroyd's illness
(b) Caroline's gossiping
(c) Flora's settlement
(d) Ralph's will

2. Chapter 11 opens with Mr. Poirot interviewing whom?
(a) Mrs. Ferdinand
(b) Mrs. Fielding
(c) Mrs. Folliott
(d) Mrs. Ferguson

3. Ralph wants to avoid making Mr. Ackroyd angry for what reason?
(a) He might be cut out of the will.
(b) He doesn't want Mr. Ackroyd to get sick from stress.
(c) He is afraid Mr. Ackroyd will kill him.
(d) He might be kicked out of the house.

4. Why does the officer take the murder weapon to the billiard room?
(a) To question James
(b) To set up the murderer
(c) To find where it came from
(d) To question Raymond

5. In Chapter One, how does Caroline think Mrs. Ferrars died?
(a) An overdose of pain medication
(b) Natural causes
(c) An overdose of sleeping pills
(d) Murder

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Caroline think Mr. Ferrars died?

2. Before his death, what did Mr. Ackroyd tell Flora about Mr. Poirot?

3. What is discovered about the footprints?

4. Flora gets into a fight with whom over comments about Ralph?

5. What is the Intelligence Corps?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter One, how does James feel about Caroline's theory regarding Mrs. Ferrars' death?

2. What did Mr. Ackroyd say to James, in Chapter Two, that James knew to be untrue and why did James know that?

3. What important clue is found by Poirot in the pond, and what initial was inscribed on it?

4. Describe what Mr. Ackroyd confides to James, in Chapter Four.

5. In what ways does Flora act suspicious, in Chapter Nine?

6. Why does Caroline think Miss Russell may be the killer, but James disagrees?

7. All evidence is beginning to point to Ralph as the possible blackmailer, including what?

8. Describe clues that everyone tells the police and that the police themselves find, after Mr. Ackroyd's body is discovered, in Chapter Five.

9. Describe the relationship between Miss Russell, Mr. Ackroyd, and Mrs. Cecil Ackroyd.

10. Whose fingerprints does Poirot tell the inspector that he forgot to check against the prints on the murder weapon?

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