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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. In Chapter One, who has died?
(a) Mr. Ford
(b) Mrs. Ferris
(c) Mr. Ferguson
(d) Mrs. Ferrars
2. Why does Miss Gannet tell James that Mrs. Ferrars and Mr. Ackroyd broke off their engagement?
(a) Mrs. Ferrars planned to see someone else.
(b) Mr. Ackroyd was planning to move away.
(c) Mrs. Ferrars was a gambler.
(d) Mrs. Ferrars had an addiction to sleeping pills.
3. Flora gets into a fight with whom over comments about Ralph?
(a) Parker
(b) Her mother
(c) Poirot
(d) James
4. Ralph was secretly speaking to whom?
(a) An unknown boy
(b) An unknown girl
(c) Miss Flora
(d) Mr. Poirot
5. What does Flora tell Parker when she sees him walking to Mr. Ackroyd's room with drinks?
(a) She will take the drinks to him herself.
(b) Don't disturb him.
(c) Mr. Ackroyd said he wasn't thirsty.
(d) Mr. Ackroyd is not in his room.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is missing from Mr. Ackroyd's bedroom?
2. Before his death, what did Mr. Ackroyd tell Flora about Mr. Poirot?
3. Mr. Ackroyd says that Ralph is where?
4. What is the parlor maid's name?
5. Ralph tells James what about Ralph's relationship with his stepfather?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter One, how does James feel about Caroline's theory regarding Mrs. Ferrars' death?
2. Describe what Mr. Ackroyd confides to James, in Chapter Four.
3. Why do James and Poirot disagree about the evidence against Ralph and whether or not Ralph is the killer?
4. Whose fingerprints does Poirot tell the inspector that he forgot to check against the prints on the murder weapon?
5. Describe James and Caroline's new neighbor, Mr. Poirot, using information from Chapter Three.
6. Based on the information given in Chapter Two, describe the village.
7. What two important clues were found by Poirot and James, at the end of Chapter Eight, and where were they found?
8. How is Parker's behavior, in Chapter Five, suspicious, and why might he be a suspect in the murder?
9. Explain the relationship, in Chapter One, between Dr. James Sheppard and his sister, Caroline.
10. What is the Intelligence Corps and what role does it play, in Chapter One?
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