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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. Who declines to help clear the table "out of giddiness?"
(a) Lombard.
(b) Blore.
(c) Emily.
(d) Vera.

2. What was the woman that Armstrong killed suffering from?
(a) Peritonitis.
(b) Asthma.
(c) Diabetes.
(d) Ulcers.

3. When the guests go down for breakfast, how many Indian figurines are on the table?
(a) Two.
(b) Ten.
(c) Seven.
(d) Six.

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

5. Whose room is discovered to be empty in the middle of the night?
(a) Vera's.
(b) Armstrong's.
(c) Blore's.
(d) Lombard's.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What other trait did the author of the manuscript have besides a lust for killing?

3. How does Armstrong believe Emily was killed?

4. Why does Wargrave think all doctors are the same?

5. What does Vera want to look for on the island?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Emily interpret the poem's reference to a "red herring?"

2. What is the Judge's appearance when he is found dead?

3. Why does Lombard believe that he will survive and Blore won't?

4. How does Lombard suggest signaling for help?

5. What romantic notion inspires the author of the manuscript's method of confession?

6. What did Morris tell the people of Sticklehaven?

7. What happens to Emily after she writes in her diary?

8. What are Lombard's instructions to Vera?

9. What really happened to Cyril?

10. How does the Judge respond when Lombard refuses to give up his weapon?

(see the answer keys)

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