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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. Where did Ralph go into hiding?
(a) James' house
(b) A home for the mentally ill
(c) A secret room in Fernly Park
(d) The summer house

2. Poirot says what about Ralph's footprints?
(a) Someone used Ralph's shoes to frame him.
(b) Ralph did make the prints, but wasn't the murderer.
(c) Someone else had similar shoes.
(d) The prints prove Ralph's guilt.

3. Who tries to save Flora from her confession by confessing to the same thing?
(a) Raymond
(b) James
(c) Blunt
(d) Miss Russell

4. Half an hour before Mr. Ackroyd's death, Ursula met whom in the summer house?
(a) Flora
(b) Mrs. Ackroyd
(c) Ralph
(d) Mr. Ackroyd

5. What does Poirot tell Blunt that makes Blunt happy?
(a) Flora is not the blackmailer.
(b) Flora did not commit the murder.
(c) Flora doesn't really love Blunt.
(d) Flora doesn't really love Ralph.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Poirot think the chair was pulled out?

2. Poirot asks the group what important question at the meeting?

3. Whom does Poirot tell James he asked for a favor to help solve the case?

4. Mrs. Ackroyd says that Ursula once caught her doing what?

5. Mrs. Ackroyd says that Mr. Ackroyd was what, regarding money?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Twenty-one, what does Poirot ask James to do, regarding people at Fernly Park?

2. Poirot makes it known that he thinks James is guilty and offers James what way out?

3. As a result of Mr. Ackroyd announcing Ralph's engagement to Flora, what did Ursula do?

4. What does Poirot ask Caroline to do, in Chapter Fourteen, and what is the result?

5. What idea does Poirot have about why Charles Kent went to Fernly Park the night of the murder?

6. In Chapter Fifteen, what is the significance of homemade jam?

7. What is the story of Ursula and Ralph?

8. In Chapter Twenty-six, what does Poirot tell James is the only reason he never considered James as a suspect?

9. What is learned about Charles Kent, the stranger James met, in Chapter Eighteen, that would make him seem like a suspect?

10. Who do James and Poirot find crying in James' house, and what important thing does Poirot do at that point?

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