View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Princess lie about?
(a) Having an affair with Ratchett
(b) Not owning a red kimono
(c) Recognizing the Countess
(d) Being from Russia

2. What about the case makes it intriguing to Poirot?
(a) Impossibility
(b) Location
(c) Deceit
(d) Ease

3. What event is temporarily held up by the investigation?
(a) Dinner
(b) Social hour
(c) Train stop
(d) Embarkation

4. Poirot claims there are how many possible solutions to the case?
(a) Two
(b) Three
(c) Five
(d) One

5. Which passenger does Poirot suspect of traveling under an alias?
(a) Colonel Arbuthnot
(b) Miss Debenham
(c) Cyrus Hardman
(d) Countess Andrenyi

6. Who is Poirot most interested in at the beginning of this chapter?
(a) Dr. Constantine
(b) Unknown conductor
(c) Hildegarde Schmidt
(d) Miss Debenham

7. What was so strange about Ratchett's decree that everything was okay?
(a) To whom he was speaking
(b) Tone
(c) What he said
(d) Language

8. What topic does Poirot discuss with Hardman?
(a) Women
(b) Murder
(c) Cars
(d) Police work

9. Who most likely reported Ratchett's nightmare?
(a) Ratchett
(b) Murderer
(c) Michel
(d) Cassetti

10. M. Bouc is suspicious of what nationality?
(a) Italians
(b) Brits
(c) Hungarians
(d) Americans

11. What is the Countess afraid of?
(a) Being wrongly accused
(b) Being the next victim
(c) Spiders
(d) Having her luggage stolen

12. Who is Masterman's alibi?
(a) Foscarelli
(b) Hardman
(c) Michel
(d) Debenham

13. Which clue was most likely planted to mislead Poirot?
(a) Handkerchief
(b) Pipe cleaner
(c) Note
(d) Watch

14. How did Miss Debenham react when the train was delayed in Syria?
(a) Angry
(b) Frantic
(c) Confused
(d) Annoyed

15. Who turns out to be Armstrong's former chauffeur?
(a) Bouc
(b) Michel
(c) Foscarelli
(d) Hardman

Short Answer Questions

1. What item does Poirot retrieve from his compartment?

2. Why does Constantine claim that the Princess could not have killed Ratchett?

3. Why does Poirot have to have special permission to search the Count and Countess' luggage?

4. What does Mrs. Hubbard insist on showing to the investigators?

5. What is Miss Debenham's profession?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 321 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample