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The setting for this novel was inspired by Agatha Christie's travels with her archaeologist husband, Sir Max Mallowan.
4 quizzes and 45 trivia questions.
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  Appointment with Death (1938)   popular trivia quiz  
Match Quiz
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Match the major characters in this novel with their description. (NO SPOILERS)
Average, 10 Qns, MotherGoose, Nov 04 21
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  Average Appointment with Death Trivia   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
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"Appointment with Death" is one of my favourite Poirot books by Agatha Christie - I hope you enjoy the quiz! Contains spoilers.
Average, 10 Qns, VerticalDancer, Aug 12 09
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  Agatha Christie's "Appointment with Death"    
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Hercule Poirot is in the Middle East on vacation, but that doesn't mean murder is on vacation also. WARNING CONTAINS SPOILERS.
Average, 10 Qns, Joepetz, Jan 17 10
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  Test yourself! Appointment with Death Quiz    
Multiple Choice
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This is a quiz about Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novel "Appointment with Death."
Average, 15 Qns, lotrpoirot427, Jun 28 07
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Appointment with Death Trivia Questions
1. "You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?". The book opens with the words. Who overhears them?

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Answer: Hercule Poirot

It WOULD be Poirot who overhears this comment, made by Raymond Boynton to his sister Carol! Poirot assumes at the time that the words relate to a fictional story, but begins to think differently when he later hears that their mother has been murdered.

2. Poirot does not immediately take interest when he overhears the phrase 'You do see she's got to be killed?' Why?

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Answer: He remembers a story about a writer that used similar phrasing once.

Poirot recalls a conversation he heard where a mystery writer said 'I'll go kill her immediately' after speaking to a critic.

3. What words does Hercule Poirot overhear on his first night of vacation?

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Answer: "You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed!"

This is the first line in the book.

4. Who are the four Boynton children?

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Answer: Lennox, Raymond, Carol and Ginevra

Lennox is the eldest, and is described by Dr Gerard as being "past the stage of revolt ... sunk in apathy". Nadine is his wife, a marriage arranged by Mrs Boynton after Lennox had rebelled some years previously. Carol and Raymond are described as being similar in looks and nature. Ginevra is the only one of the four who is Mrs Boynton's natural daughter (the others are her step-children), and she is described as "escaping into a realm of fantasy".

5. What is Ginerva afraid of?

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Answer: Being killed by a sheik

The murderer dressed up as a sheik to steal a needle from Dr. Gerard. She accidentally went into Ginerva's tent and scared her.

6. Who does Raymond think killed his mother?

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Answer: Carol

Carol and Raymond had a plan to kill Mrs. Boynton. They abandoned their plans, feeling guilty later. When Raymond saw Mrs. Boynton dead, he thought Carol had killed her anyway.

7. Who introduces Poirot into the case?

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Answer: Colonel Carbury

He believes that Poirot can solve the case.

8. What was Mrs Boynton's method of control over her family?

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Answer: She used psychological control

Mrs Boynton was a prison warder before her marriage. Dr Gerard theorises that after her marriage, she continued in the same role in imprisoning her own children. This is purely for her own enjoyment!

9. Who did Lady Westholme trick into believing that Mrs. Boynton was still alive when she spoke to her?

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Answer: Amabel Pierce

Lady Westholme told Miss Pierce that Mrs. Boynton groaned at her, when she was actually dead.

10. What is stolen from Dr. Gerard?

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Answer: hypodermic syringe

This, which is the believed murder weapon, is eventually returned.

11. What was so surprising about Mrs Boynton's behaviour on the afternoon of her death?

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Answer: She allowed her children - except Ginevra - to go off for the afternoon without her

Mrs Boynton had never allowed her children to go off without her before. No-one believed that she is doing it for any good reason, however, and this proved to be exactly so at the end of the book, when Poirot explained that she needed to be free of her family in order to be able to speak privately with Lady Westholme.

12. Of what nationality is Dr. Gerard?

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Answer: French

Dr. Gerard is a very intelligent psychiatrist.

13. Whom does Dr Gerard consider is the most likely to commit murder (temperamentally speaking) of the suspects?

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Answer: Raymond Boynton

Dr Gerard tells Poirot that Raymond and Carol are both in a state of rebellion, accompanied by a severe nervous excitement. However, he states that Raymond's case is complicated by the fact that he has fallen in love with Sarah. He then goes on to say that Lennox has passed the stage of rebellion, and is now sunk in apathy, whereas Ginevra is "escaping into a realm of fantasy".

14. What was Mrs. Boynton's profession that she was now retired from?

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Answer: Prison wardress

She recognized Lady Westholme as one of her former inmates.

15. What does Dr. Gerard see Ginevra Boynton doing that shocks him?

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Answer: tearing a handkerchief

He sees her viciously tearing her handkerchief with her hands.

16. Which two people are not in attendance when Poirot reveals the murderer?

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Answer: Lady Westholme and Amabel Pierce

Lady Westholme was the murderer so she wasn't invited. Amabel Pierce had nothing to do with the case, except for a very minor part.

17. What was used to murder Mrs. Boyton?

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Answer: digitoxin

This is a heart medicine, and the murderer gave her an overdose. This made it seem that she died of heart failure.

18. What does Mrs. Boynton say when Sarah King tells her that she is a nasty and cold woman?

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Answer: That she never forgets a face

Mrs. Boynton was talking to Lady Westholme, who was standing behind Sarah.

19. Who does Poirot accuse of the crime first?

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Answer: Mrs. Nadine Boynton

He tells everyone that she is the killer, but minutes later he reveals that this is not the truth, and he unmasks the real murderer.

20. Whom does Jefferson Cope marry?

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Answer: Carol Boynton

Although Jefferson Cope has always been in love with Nadine Boynton, she chooses to remain with her husband Lennox after Mrs Boynton's murder. Jefferson Cope then marries Carol.

21. Why does Dr. Gerard not go on the hike?

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Answer: He thinks he has malaria

He was under suspicion because he claimed his needle was missing. It was difficult to believe that someone else had taken it when he was in his tent all day.

22. Who is the murderer of Mrs. Boynton?

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Answer: Lady Westholme

Lady Westholme was a powerful politician. However, Mrs. Boynton recognized her face and remembered that she was a criminal and was in the same jail as she herself was before Lady Westholme became famous. Lady Westholme killed her to prevent her from ruining her career.

23. And finally ... who murdered Mrs Boynton?

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Answer: Lady Westholme

Poirot deduces that Lady Westholme, now a highly successful politician, had previously been an inmate in the prison at which Mrs Boynton had been a wardress. Just as Sarah King tells Mrs Boynton that she is "pathetic" and "ludicrous" for believing she has such wide control, when actually she can only control her family, Mrs Boynton recognises Lady Westholme. She takes the opportunity to extend the number of people she is controlling by blackmailing Lady Westholme with this knowledge. Lady Westholme kills her to prevent this from becoming known.

24. In what year was this book first published in the United States?

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Answer: 1938

It was released in England the same year.

25. In a play version in the 1940's, who played Miss Pierce (changed to Miss Pryce in the play)?

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Answer: Joan Hickson

Joan Hickson was so good in this part that Agatha wrote a letter to her requesting that, "I hope you will play my dear Miss Marple." In the 1980's she did just that, and she is considered the definitive Miss Marple.

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