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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Rogers doing when he was killed?
(a) Polishing the silver.
(b) Washing clothes.
(c) Chopping wood.
(d) Signalling for help.

2. What is Blore's explanation for Emily's lack of guilt over what happened to Beatrice?
(a) Greed.
(b) Propriety.
(c) Envy.
(d) Charity.

3. Who first saw the SOS signals?
(a) Narracott.
(b) A fisherman.
(c) Some boy scouts.
(d) The police.

4. What is missing from the bathroom?
(a) The mirror.
(b) The rug.
(c) The curtain.
(d) The towels.

5. What has Emily lost?
(a) Her hair comb.
(b) Her yarn.
(c) Her pearls.
(d) Her Bible.

6. How many Indian figurines remain on the table?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) None.
(d) One.

7. What is in the drawer or the table by Lombard's bed?
(a) A knife.
(b) Vera's watch.
(c) Cyanide.
(d) His revolver.

8. What is in Vera's room that she had never noticed before?
(a) A mirror.
(b) A telephone.
(c) A knife.
(d) A big black hook.

9. What does Blore say to do after locking the doors?
(a) Don't fall asleep.
(b) Put a chair under the handle.
(c) Pray for safety.
(d) Lock the windows.

10. Who wrote the last written record of what happened on the island, as discovered by the investigators?
(a) Blore.
(b) Lombard.
(c) Vera.
(d) Emily.

11. What does Vera do to pass the time?
(a) She writes in her diary.
(b) She knits.
(c) She prays.
(d) She writes letters to Hugo.

12. What does Lombard suggest doing when the weather lifts?
(a) Build a raft.
(b) Light fires.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Make a signal.

13. Who offers to clear the table after breakfast?
(a) Emily.
(b) Lombard.
(c) Vera.
(d) Blore.

14. What profession did the author of the manuscript pursue?
(a) The law.
(b) Fishing.
(c) Education.
(d) Medicine.

15. Who does Emily think she sees in the dining room?
(a) U. N. Owen.
(b) Rogers' ghost.
(c) Marston's ghost.
(d) Beatrice Taylor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Blore use to try and find fingerprints?

2. What feeling does the phrase "this is the end" create in Vera?

3. What was the woman that Armstrong killed suffering from?

4. What does Lombard at first refuse to give up?

5. Who does Vera believe to be the killer?

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