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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapters 4 and 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes the train to stop unexpectedly in the middle of the night?
(a) Animals have wandered onto the tracks
(b) It gets stuck in a snowdrift
(c) The conductor is murdered
(d) There is a mechanical failure

2. The conductor stopped to speak to a colleague about what subject?
(a) Noisy passengers
(b) Switching shifts
(c) Snow
(d) Coffee

3. What is the name of the diplomat?
(a) Ratchett
(b) Conway
(c) Bouc
(d) Gildersleeve

4. Who committed suicide from grief?
(a) Harris
(b) Jacobson
(c) Colonel Armstrong
(d) Cassetti

5. Who refers to Poirot as harmless and peculiar?
(a) Miss Debenham
(b) M. Bouc
(c) Miss Marple
(d) Col. Arbuthnot

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the profession of Edward Henry Masterman?

2. Who spent a year in Washington?

3. What duty did MacQueen perform for Ratchett before going to bed?

4. What possibly altered the murderer's plan?

5. Who most likely reported Ratchett's nightmare?

(see the answer key)

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