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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. Who is in such disbelief that he/she calls the police to confirm the situation?
(a) Mr. Hammond
(b) Blunt
(c) Mrs. Ackroyd
(d) Raymond

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

3. Why has Kent really come to town, according to Miss Russell?
(a) To hide from police
(b) To have a nice visit family
(c) To get money
(d) To live

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of the following people, who did Ursula have a major fight with the day of the murder?

2. Why does Poirot think Charles Kent went to Fernly Park the day of the murder?

3. Raymond admits that his secret is what?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Twenty-six, what does Poirot tell James is the only reason he never considered James as a suspect?

2. In Chapter Twenty-three, Poirot insinuates that nobody was actually in the room when Mr. Ackroyd died. How does he account for the conversation that was heard?

3. What does Poirot say about the moved chair, in Chapter Twenty-five?

4. What does Raymond reveal to James and Poirot, in Chapter Fifteen?

5. In Chapter Twenty-four, Poirot unexpectedly produces Ralph at the meeting, saying what about Ralph's whereabouts during the time he was missing?

6. Poirot makes it known that he thinks James is guilty and offers James what way out?

7. What favor did Poirot ask of Inspector Raglan, in order to help solve the case?

8. At the meeting, how do Flora and Mrs. Ackroyd react to Poirot's announcement that Ursula and Ralph are married?

9. What is learned about Charles Kent, the stranger James met, in Chapter Eighteen, that would make him seem like a suspect?

10. In Chapter Nineteen, explain why Poirot suggests to the Inspector that he hold Charles Kent longer?

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