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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who spent a year in Washington?
(a) Princess Dragomiroff
(b) MacQueen
(c) Count Andrenyi
(d) Pierre Michel

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

3. Why does the Countess claim to remember so little?
(a) She was asleep
(b) She was very young
(c) She was away at school
(d) She was drugged

4. Why couldn't the unknown conductor be one of the people Poirot had met?
(a) Build was too small
(b) All of their voices were masculine
(c) Unknown conductor was probably a woman
(d) The unknown conductor was the only one to lose a button

5. How does Poirot categorize Miss Debenham?
(a) Nervous
(b) Indignant
(c) Passionate
(d) Distant

Short Answer Questions

1. How was MacQueen's father related to Cassetti?

2. Who turns out to be Daisy Armstrong's former nurse?

3. Which group of men investigated the murder?

4. What topic does Poirot discuss with Hardman?

5. What does Poirot find odd about Princess Dragomiroff's maid?

(see the answer key)

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