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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. Whose fingerprints are not taken right away?
2. Mr. Ackroyd says that Ralph is where?
3. What did Mr. Poirot ask Mr. Ackroyd to do?
4. Who arrives during Poirot's questioning about the stranger?
5. Who tells James that Ralph is in town?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is found missing from Mr. Ackroyd's room, in Chapter Ten, and who is discussed as someone who may have taken it?
2. In what ways does Flora act suspicious, in Chapter Nine?
3. In Chapter One, how does James feel about Caroline's theory regarding Mrs. Ferrars' death?
4. Why is Mrs. Ackroyd disappointed and upset, in Chapter Ten, according to what she confides to James?
5. How is Parker's behavior, in Chapter Five, suspicious, and why might he be a suspect in the murder?
6. Why does Caroline think Miss Russell may be the killer, but James disagrees?
7. Explain why James does not want to go with Flora to see Poirot, in Chapter Seven.
8. Based on the information given in Chapter Two, describe the village.
9. Describe James and Caroline's new neighbor, Mr. Poirot, using information from Chapter Three.
10. What is the Intelligence Corps and what role does it play, in Chapter One?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Choose two of the following characters and describe how they influenced the story:
1. Blunt
2. Raymond
3. Mrs. Cecil Ackroyd
Essay Topic 2
Agatha Christie uses foreshadowing throughout the story. Describe how and when Ralph's possible marriage to Ursula was foreshadowed.
Essay Topic 3
Describe how Poirot finally found out that James was the killer for certain. How did he confront James about it? What was James' reaction? What option did Poirot give? How did things end up? What were both mens' motivations for their actions at the end of the book?
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