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CH1 - ‘I was…

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‘I was considerably worried and upset’

SHEPPARD about Mrs Ferrars’ death

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CH1- ‘Caroline can do any…

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‘Caroline can do any amount of finding out by sitting placidly at home’ SHEPPARD

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CH1- ‘As a professional man…

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‘As a professional man, I naturally aim at discretion’

SHEPPARD

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CH1- ‘Therefore I have got into the…

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‘habit of continually withholding all information’ SHEPPARD

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CH2- ‘King’s Abbot, is, I imagine, …

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‘very much like any other village’ SHEPPARD

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what is the title of chapter 2? what kind of words are repeated when Sheppard describes the town?

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who’s who in King’s Abbot

collective nouns: ‘we’ ‘our’

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CH2- ‘a man more impossibly like a…

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‘like a country squire’ SHEPPARD describing RA

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CH2-‘nearly fifty years of age…

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‘rubicund of face and genial of manner’ SHEPPARD describing RA

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CH2-‘miss russell…

‘she has a…

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‘miss Russell has reigned undisputed for five years’

‘stern eye, and lips that shut tightly’

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CH2- ‘Ralph in London? …

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‘but he had certainly been in King’s Abbot the preceding afternoon’

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What is the name of chapter 3?

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‘the man who grew vegetable marrows’

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CH3- ‘his name, apparently, is …

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‘Mr Porrott-a name which conveys an odd feeling of unreality’
thought he was a ‘hairdresser’

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CH3- ‘the strangle little man…

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‘seemed to read my thoughts’

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CH3- ‘for the moment…

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‘the spirit of Caroline was strong within me’

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CH3- ‘surprised him by…

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‘my superior gifts’ POIROT

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CH3- ‘looked up to find…

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‘Mr Porrott eyeing me sympathetically. He seemed an understanding little man’ SHEPPARD

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CH3- ‘but I was foolish- …

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‘and worse than foolish-greedy. I risked the substance for the shadow’ SHEPPARD

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CH3- ‘rather amused by..

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‘his patent snobbery’ SHEPPARD about Poirot

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CH3- ‘the light of some…

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‘inner knowledge’ SHEPPARD about Poirot

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CH3- ‘he had in him…

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‘a strain of weakness’ SHEPPARD about Ralph

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CH3- ‘Could I..

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‘do anything with the boy?’

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CH4- ‘I am sorry to say…

‘I hate interfering..

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‘I detest Mrs Ackroyd.’

‘in other people’s affairs’

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CH4- ‘she made me, you see, an …

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‘accessory to the fact’ RA

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CH4- ‘no I cried impulsively…

‘all my arguments…

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‘read it now.’

‘were in vain’

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CH4- ‘rough and..

‘his voice reminded me of…

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‘uneducated’
‘someone’s voice that I knew’
after killing RA, bumps into the later revealed ‘Charles Kent’

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CH5- ‘I’ll take…

‘I banged once more..

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‘responsibility’ breaks down door to get RA

‘frantically on the door’

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CH5- ‘ Parker was most…

CH6- ‘Depend upon it …

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‘suspiciously flustered’ SHEPPARD

‘he’s our man’

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CH5- ‘I hurried to catch her…

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‘as she fell. She had fainted’

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CH6- ‘I’ll spare you…

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‘the technical language’ SHEPPARD

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CH7- ‘be guided by me.

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‘I advise you not to drag this detective into the case’

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CH7- ‘you may wish that, after all, …

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‘you had left it to the local police.’

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CH7- ‘I admire enormously..

‘If inspector Raglan permits me to assist him, …

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‘your English police

‘I shall be both honoured and flattered’

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it is completely unimportant…

‘everyone concerned in them..

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‘that is why it is so interesting’

‘has something to hide’

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ch8- ‘some peculiar…

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‘angle of his own’

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‘fresh and…

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‘debonair’ SHEPPARD about Raymond

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Name one name Poirot is referred as?

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‘the Belgian’

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‘everyone has something to hide’ who quotes this in chapter 9?

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sheppard

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CH9- ‘It is not easy to hide…

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‘things from Hercule Poirot’

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quotes to suggest King’s Abbot is a ‘bucolic’ setting?

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‘formal flower beds’

‘splendid view over the countryside’

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inspector’s an..

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‘ass. Everybody knows CH9- FLORA

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‘Poirot stopped and…

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‘removed a microscopic weed’

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CH10 -‘she seemed…

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a nice girl’ -about Ursula

43
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‘CH12- inspector raglan stared..

‘an air of great…

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at the little man’

unconcern, flecked a spec of dust of his coat sleeve

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‘what would happen to the..

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‘estate, I wonder, if Ralph were found guilty?’

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‘women record subconsciously a thousand…

‘and call the..

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‘little details without knowing they are doing so.

‘result intuition’

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you are like a child who…

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‘wants to know the way the engine works’

47
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you do not use…

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you little grey cells

48
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what does Sheppard sometimes refer to himself as?

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a ‘medical man’

49
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‘the case does seem..

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black against him’ SHEPPARD

50
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‘I spoke with that kind of

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spurious geniality which seems expected of general practitioners’

51
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and so the deed was done…

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and Ursula borne became Ursula paton

52
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this is very weak and

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silly of me -Ursula crying after Poirot finds out her and Ralph are married

53
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she scorned to label herself a

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‘lady parlourmaid’

54
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but to people like ralph Paton turning

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over a new leaf is easier in theory than in practice

55
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Roger Ackroyd dictated his wishes

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-they agreed to them

56
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her nature, strong and resolute, with an inherent

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distaste for duplicity, was not one to welcome such a course

-ralph concealing the end of his engagement to flora from Ursula (if the engagement ended)

57
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ralph implored her silent

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for a little longer

58
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regarded her as the girl who deliberately tried to

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entrap the adopted son of a very wealthy man -RA about Ursula

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how did Ralph describe Ursula telling Mr Ackroyd about their marriage as?
how did Ursula describe it?

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  • RALPH: ‘irretrievably ruined his prospects by her ill timed revelation’
  • URSULA: ‘Ursula reproached Ralph with his duplicity’

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