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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Caroline and Flora both tell James that they don't think which person is guilty?
2. What item was moved at the crime scene?
3. When James arrives at Fernly Park, what strange thing does Parker do?
4. Chapter 11 opens with Mr. Poirot interviewing whom?
5. Why does the officer take the murder weapon to the billiard room?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe James and Caroline's new neighbor, Mr. Poirot, using information from Chapter Three.
2. In Chapter One, how does James feel about Caroline's theory regarding Mrs. Ferrars' death?
3. Explain the relationship, in Chapter One, between Dr. James Sheppard and his sister, Caroline.
4. Describe the discussion between James and Officer Davis, in Chapter Six.
5. Why do James and Poirot disagree about the evidence against Ralph and whether or not Ralph is the killer?
6. All evidence is beginning to point to Ralph as the possible blackmailer, including what?
7. Describe what Mr. Ackroyd confides to James, in Chapter Four.
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. Based on the information given in Chapter Two, describe the village.
10. What does Caroline tell Poirot, in Chapter Eleven, that upsets James and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What role does Mrs. Ferrars' suicide play in both the reason for Mr. Ackroyd's murder and the way in which Poirot solved the murder? Be sure to use both evidence gained by Mrs. Ferrars' suicide and the motivations of the killer, James, in your answer.
Essay Topic 2
Explain how Miss Russell's interest in drugs was tied to Charles Kent and how they became alibis for each other. What led Poirot to make the connection?
Essay Topic 3
Choose either of the following clues from the story and describe its significance to both throwing off the investigation at first and eventually cracking the case.
1. The phone call
2. The moved chair
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