the murder of roger ackroyd quotes

Question 1

give 3 ways Poirot is referred to by Mrs Ackroyd: (making her confession)

Answer 1

‘that dreadful little Frenchman’
‘‘little upstart of a foreigner’
‘a most ridiculous looking creature’

Question 2

what is the name of chapter 16?

Answer 2

an evening at Mah Jong

Question 3

‘this kind of

Answer 3

simple entertainment is very popular in King’s Abbot’

Question 4

the perfect winning,

Answer 4

I might have been slightly indiscreet’

Question 5

‘do not play the

Answer 5

farce of the honest, injured man.’

Question 6

‘it is useless to

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deny. Hercule Poirot knows.

Question 7

I thought that if Ackroyd was being blackmailed, why

Answer 7

shouldn’t I have a share of the pickings?

Question 8

Phrase used to describe the lawyer’ s discretion

Answer 8

‘his professional reserve’

Question 9

‘disturbed is the

Answer 9

word you had in mind’

Question 10

‘you are weak James’ who is this quote said by?

Answer 10

Caroline

Question 11

there is in him somewhere

Answer 11

a strain of weakness- deep down

Question 12

his moral fibre

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is blunted. -Poirot’s speech

Question 13

the ruthless power of vision

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which struck fear into both of us

Question 14

‘his eyes were

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blue and shifty’

Question 15

i fancy you

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were born in kent

Question 16

ralph and I

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are both weak!

Question 17

you should be an inventor by

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trade not, a doctor

Question 18

‘it occurred to me that there was not much

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which escaped Hercule Poirot’

Question 19

‘a girl who tried to ‘entrap’

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the adopted son of a very wealthy man’

Question 20

‘you kept your personality

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in the background’

POIROT TO SHEPPARD

Question 21

let us get back to the

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culpable conduct of Dr Sheppard

Question 22

Those alibis now.

Answer 22

Worthless! Absolutely worthless.

Question 23

I have always been considered so

Answer 23

• so very respectfully