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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which group of men investigated the murder?
(a) Constantine, Poirot, Cassetti
(b) Poirot, Buoc, Michel
(c) Poirot, Constantine, Bouc
(d) Poirot, MacQueen, Arbuthnot

2. What is Princess Dragomiroff's first name?
(a) Natasha
(b) Natalia
(c) Svetlana
(d) Helena

3. What does Poirot find odd about Princess Dragomiroff's maid?
(a) Nationality
(b) Temperment
(c) Age
(d) Education

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

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

6. Who claims to own the handkerchief?
(a) Princess Dragomiroff
(b) Countess Andrenyi
(c) Miss Harris
(d) Mrs. Hubbard

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

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

9. What is discovered in Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag?
(a) Flask of whiskey
(b) Bloody knife
(c) Conductor's uniform
(d) Severed finger

10. Hildegarde Schmidt hesitated when discussing what object?
(a) Pipe
(b) Torn dress
(c) Handkerchief
(d) Spiked coffee

11. About what did Miss Debenham lie?
(a) Her affair with Colonel Arbuthnot
(b) Knowing Cassetti
(c) Recognizing the Countess
(d) Missing the train in Syria

12. What is found in the pocket of the conductor's uniform?
(a) Pass key
(b) Silver pocket watch
(c) Gold coin
(d) Ratchett's pipe

13. Poirot gives Michel a list of passengers and second list containing what?
(a) 10 questions
(b) Altered train schedule
(c) Suspects
(d) Alibis

14. Most of the passengers seem to be related to what crime?
(a) Forgery
(b) Embezzlement
(c) Counterfeiting
(d) Kidnapping

15. What possibly altered the murderer's plan?
(a) Ratchett wasn't in his compartment
(b) Being interrupted by Mrs. Hubbard
(c) Getting stuck in the snowdrift
(d) The unknown conductor

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the real identities of Debenham and Freebody?

2. What was so strange about Ratchett's decree that everything was okay?

3. To whom does Poirot refer as a "highly suspicious character?"

4. What was Masterman's relationship with Colonel Armstrong?

5. What does Poirot expect to find in Hildegarde's luggage?

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