The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - questions

1. Where was the home of Mrs. Ferrars?

2. When and what wa the cause of Mrs Ferrars death?

3. When did Dr Sheppard arrive at Mrs Ferrars home?

4. What was the name of Caroline’s parlour maid?

5. What does Caroline think of Mrs Ferrars death?

6. What does Caroline think of Mrs Ferrars death?

7. When did Ashley Ferrars die?

8. What was the name of Dr Sheppard’s town?

9. Who is the most prominent citizen of Kin’s Abbot?

10. What was the name of Ackroyd’s house?

11. With whom did Roger live in Fernly Park?

12. Who was Ralph Paton?

13. How did Roger’s wife die?

14. What according to Dr Sheppard is the reason of Ashley Ferrars death?

15. What was the name of Roger’s housekeeper? How long had she been working?

16. When did Ralph Paton arrive and where was he staying?

17. What is the dilemma of Roger Paton?

18. Why does Dr Sheppard call Caroline’s deductions ‘inspired guesswork’?

19. Who all visit the Roger residence on the evening of September 17?

20.When did Dr Sheppard arrive there?

21. How long had Roger been engaged to Mrs Ferrars?

22. Who brings Mrs Ferrars letter?

23. What is written in the letter?

24. At what time does Dr Sheppard leave for home?

25. When does he collide with the stranger?

26. When does he receive the call from Parker?

27. What happens to Roger? How?

28. What is the name of the Inspector?

29. What was missing from the room?

30. How does Inspector Davies pull the dagger and why?

31. What does Dr Sheppard deduce from the body?

32. What doe Blunt say about the weapon?

33. Where, according to Raymond was the dagger kept?

34. What does Dr Sheppard say about the sound of the lid being shut?

35. What does Davies conclude about the case?

36. What does Caroline say about his investigations?

37. Which senior Inspector was called to investigate? Whom does he think to be the criminal according to Flora?

38. What does Dr Sheppard tell Poirot about his visit to Three Boars?

39. Whom do they meet at the Police Station?

40. Examine the observations made by Poirot at the crime scene.

41. What does Colonel Melrose report about the phone call?

42. Why does Pparker describe the Dictaphone salesman who visited the house on Wednesday?

43. What does Poirot find in the summerhouse outbuilding?

44. Who employed Hercule Poirot in the case?

45. Why does Flora insist on hiring Poirot?

46. ‘The I accept …and I hope you will not regret those words’ Who says this and why?

47. What is ‘the study of Human nature’ of Poirot? (5)

48. What is the ‘To each man his own knowledge’?

49. What is the name of the staff in the lodge?

50. Comment on the investigation of Inspector Raglan and Poirot?

51. How does Poirot manipulate Raglan to get what he wants? What does it tell us about the police? (5)

52. How much did Uncle Roger leave for Flora?

53. What was Blunt doing at 9.30 pm?

54. What does Flora tell Poirot?

55. What does Poirot find from the goldfish pond?

56. Comment on the details of Roger’s will? (5)

57. What does Blunt tell about Mrs Ferrars?

58. How did Blunt lose his money?

59. What is the name of the house maid?

60.What did Poirot find about Ursula?

61. What did he ask Dr. Sheppard to do?

62. Who are the patients that Dr Sheppard treat on the morning of September 17?

63. What information does Poirot collect in a leisurely walk around the gardens?

64.What is the information that Poirot collects from Dr Sheppard’s residence? How does he obtain it?

65. What information does Inspector Raglan bring about Dr Sheppard?

66. What does Poirot ask Raglan to check?

67. What, according to Mrs Ackroyd , Ralph could be the murderer?

68. Why does Flora react in outrage? What does Poirot ask her to do?

69. Why, according to Mrs Ackroyd , Ralph could be the murderer?

70. What does Poirot tell Dr Sheppard about the stranger?

71. What is Dr Sheppard’s theory about the murderer?

72. ‘Is the truth everyone really wants t now?” Comment. (10)

73. Do you think Caroline is the Watson to Poirot’s Sherlock? (10)

74. What information does Mrs Ackroyd want to give Roger?

75. What information could Caroline collect? How does she deliver it to Poirot?

76. What is Geoffrey Raymond’s secret?

77. Why did Mrs Ackroyd feel that Ursula would report on her?

78. Whom do Caroline and Dr Sheppard invite? What do they do?

79. What is the speculation about weddings they make?

80. Why is Mrs Ackroyd a suspect from her assertions?

81. How is Caroline and Dr Sheppard’s nature revealed around Mah Jong table?

82. Why does Poirot confront Parker?

83. Why does the lawyer Mr. Hammond tell Poirot?

84. What does Poirot deduce to be the psychology of the blackmailer?

85. What was the name of the stranger?

86. What does Raglan tell about the fingerprints?

87. What is the alibi that Kent provides?

88. What does Flora finally confess?

89. What does Blunt confess?

90. What, according to Poirot could be the possible but probable motive of the murderer?

91. What is Miss Russell’s confession?

92. What happens at Dr Sheppard’s residence on September 15?

93.Assess the Flora – Ralph- Ursula story.

94. Where had Ralph been hidden by Dr Sheppard?

95. When had Dr Sheppard admitted Ralph to the mental asylum?

96. What is the final ‘damning clue’?

97. What are the evidences against Dr Sheppard?

98. What is the significance of the Dictaphone as a piece of evidence?

99. What is the significance of the phone call as an evidence?

100. What were the crucial evidences against Dr Sheppard? (5)

101. What according to Poirot is the probable sequence of events that might have happened?(ch 26)

102. What according to Poirot is the motivation for the crime?

103. Who was the likely caller on the fatal day? What does it tell us about the murderer?

104. Why ws murdering Roger part of the scheme of the blackmailer?

105. Whom did Dr Sheppard consider his greatest adversary and why?

106. How does Dr Sheppard sketch his own end?

107. Why is the final chapter so named?

108. What does Dr Sheppards final confession tell us about his character?

109.Comment on the narrative technique of the novel.

110. How is the novel at the same time a thriller with twists and turns, and, an intense exploration of human nature, deceit, appearance and reality? (10)