TMORA quotes 3

Question 1

what is the name of Chapter 23?

what is another phrase used to describe this chapter?

Answer 1

Poirot’s Little Reunion

‘little performance’

Question 2

what word is repeated twice between chapter 23 and 24?

Answer 2

‘retinence’

Question 3

you have kept your

Answer 3

personality in the background

Question 4

he was smiling across

Poirot too

Answer 4

the room at me (Ralph smiling at Sheppard)
was smiling
all in chapter 24

Question 5

let us get back to the

Answer 5

culpable conduct of Dr Sheppard (Poirot drily)

Question 6

you see now why I drew

Answer 6

attention to the reticence of your manuscript

Question 7

Dr Sheppard has

Dr Sheppard has

Answer 7

been very loyal -RALPH

been a model of discretion -POIROT

Question 8

suddenly his voice

I know the murderer

Answer 8

and whole personality changed
of Roger Ackroyd is in this room now
both poirot

Question 9

what did Poirot do when Dr Sheppard asks why he let the murderer ‘run the risk of escape’ by letting him go?

Answer 9

‘Poirot shook his head’

Question 10

it was the

Answer 10

little discrepancy in time that first drew my attention to you

Question 11

phrases that are suggestive of Dr Sheppard’s denial?

in chapter 26

Answer 11

‘I laughed’
‘I yawned’
‘slight yawn’

Question 12

thank you for this most

Answer 12

interesting and instructive evening

Question 13

my dear Poirot(…) whatever

Answer 13

else I may be, I am not a fool

Question 14

odd,

Answer 14

how things pan out

Question 15

poor old Ackroyd I am

Answer 15

glad I gave him a chance

Question 16

my death will be a grief to her,

Answer 16

but grief passes

Question 17

I feel no pity

Answer 17

for her 
(circular structure- dichotomy of duplicity and faux compassion)- about Mrs Ferrars' death

Question 18

I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work

Answer 18

and come here to grow vegetable marrows