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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. With what object does Poirot confront Colonel Arbuthnot?
(a) Broken watch
(b) Missing button
(c) Pipe cleaner
(d) Forged passport

4. Why was the luggage damp?
(a) Michel spilled water on it
(b) No one knows
(c) It fell into the snow
(d) To soak off the ID label

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

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

7. Why does Poirot suspect more than one murderer?
(a) Mrs. Hubbard heard two additional voices
(b) Wounds were left and right handed
(c) Ratchett had many enemies
(d) Wounds were at varying heights

8. Who is worried about being the last person to see Ratchett alive?
(a) Hildegarde Schmidt
(b) Greta Ohlsson
(c) Princess Dragomiroff
(d) Miss Debenham

9. What object is found in Hildegarde's luggage?
(a) Gun
(b) Conductor's uniform
(c) Knife
(d) A letter from Ratchett

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

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

12. What type of knife is used as the murder weapon?
(a) Steak knife
(b) Buck knife
(c) Dagger
(d) Stiletto

13. What profession did Miss Freebody hold?
(a) Tutor
(b) Governess
(c) Upstairs maid
(d) Dance instructor

14. Poirot suspects the unknown conductor might also have the same identity as what other character?
(a) Princess Dragomiroff
(b) The woman in the kimono
(c) Pierre Michel
(d) Count Andrenyi

15. What item is found in Poirot's luggage?
(a) Gun
(b) Forged passport
(c) Kimono
(d) Conductor's uniform

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Princess lie about?

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

3. Hildegarde takes pride in what skill?

4. Who is Poirot most interested in at the beginning of this chapter?

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

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