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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What suspicious item is located in Colonel Arbuthnot's luggage?
(a) Conductor's uniform
(b) Packet of handkerchiefs
(c) Box of pipe cleaners
(d) Knife sheath

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

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

5. Who else does Poirot suspect of being employed at the Armstrong's house?
(a) Ohlsson and MacQueen
(b) Arbuthnot and Andrenyi
(c) Hardman and Michel
(d) Hubbard and Schmidt

Short Answer Questions

1. With what object does Poirot confront Colonel Arbuthnot?

2. Where was Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag located?

3. What topic does Poirot discuss with Hardman?

4. What is the real identity of the Countess?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Countess act when Poirot is searching through her luggage?

2. How does Dr. Constantine describe Miss Debenham?

3. How does Poirot manage to get the Count and Countess alone?

4. How does the Princess try to explain the monogram on the handkerchief.

5. Where does Poirot find the missing uniform?

6. Why does Bouc have suspicions about Foscarelli?

7. How did Colonel Arbuthnot react to Poirot's inquiry about the pipe cleaner?

8. What caused the murderers' original plan to go awry?

9. What other thing did the Princess lie about to Poirot?

10. What is the true identity of Miss Debenham?

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