Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) George grew red in the face.
B) A few weeks ago Tom became engaged to a woman old enough to be his great grandmother
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) George was evidently very much upset.
B) “Do you know what happened in my previous life, when I was Sherlock Holmes?” he asked me
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) German Harry never says a word
B) Drunk or sober he is equally silent on that subject and if they insist grows angry and leaves them
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) German Harry ran out of matches and was afraid that his fire would go out, so he only slept in snatches, pouring gasoline in the fire from time to time all day and all night
B) He came to the end of his provisions and lived on chickens, fish and Rolton soup. Sometimes he got a Doshirak
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) German Harry repeated it over and over again
B) I asked him if he read
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) German Harry was moved when my skipper told him that an old man of his own age whom he had known for a long time was here
B) “Old Charlie dead – that’s too bad. Old Charlie dead.”
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) I have never seen George in such a rage as when he heard that Tom and Cronshaw had gone off together to Las Vegas the moment they cashed the cheque
B) They spent a happy month in Vegas
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) If George could oblige Tom with a couple of hundred pounds he didn’t mind for the honour of the family giving it up
B) George paid
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) It is believed that he has, hidden away somewhere, a collection of magnificent pearls. During the war no pearlers came out and for years German Harry never saw a living soul
B) For all he knew, a terrible epidemic had killed off the entire human race and German Harry was the only man alive with AIDS
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) I’ve always done my duty in that state of life in which it has pleased Providence to place me
B) And you can’t deny that Tom has been an idle, worthless, dissolute and dishonourable rogue. If there were any justice he’d be in the workhouse
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Now Tom’s wife died and left him nothing
B) She left him some cakes and sunflower seeds in a little plastic bag.
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) The skipper engaged four Torres Straits islanders as crew (the boat was but nineteen tons) and we robbed the local store for canned goods
B) A day or two before I sailed a man who owned a number of pearlers came to me and asked whether on my way I would stop at the island of Trebucket and leave a sack of flour, another of rice, and some erotic magazines for the hermit who lived there
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) There was a double bed in German Harry’s room, a table, and his various household utensils, including an electric can opener, a microwave oven and even the Internet
B) Under a tree in front of it was a table and a bench. Behind was an enclosed run for his chickens and a pool for crocodiles
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Though now and then opportunity had been given him to leave German Harry had never taken it
B) A tipical man and a usual story
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) And then I foresaw the end
B) One day a pearl fisher would land on the island and German Harry would not be waiting for him, silent and suspicious, at the water’s edge
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) As I looked at the wrinkled, mean old face of German Harry I wondered what was the story of those three hundred dreadful years that had made him welcome this long imprisonment
B) I sought to see behind those pale blue eyes of his what secrets they were that he would carry to his grave
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) But I do not believe he would find pearls: German Harry would have seen to it that none should discover the treasure. He would donate it to a local church
B) Then the pearl fisher would go back into his dinghy and the island once more would be full of people
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Cronshaw was determined to take the matter into court
B) He said Tom was a scoundrel and should be punished. It cost George an infinite deal of trouble and having to sleep with some powerful people to settle the affair
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) During the last four months of the year there may be two or three local gorillas about and not infrequently after the day’s work they will row in and spend an evening with German Harry
B) They try to make him drunk and then they ask him what happened during those three years after the two boat-loads came to the island
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) For twenty years Tom raced and gambled, philandered with the prettiest girls, danced, ate in the most expensive restaurants, and played paintball
B) He always looked as if he had just stepped out of a bandbox
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) George had a good wife, to whom he had never been unfaithful even in thought, and four daughters to whom he was the best of fathers
B) He made a point of saving a third of his income and his plan was to retire at fifty-five to a little house in the country where he proposed to cultivate marihuana
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) George was a circus clown and a comedian
B) George was poor, his reputation was compromised
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) George was in his office every morning at nine-thirty and never left it till six
B) He was honest, industrious and worthy
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) George’s life was full of blame
B) He was glad that he was growing old because Tom was growing younger
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) German Harry agreed to go with the skipper
B) He said that during those three years he had seen such terrible things that he had a horror of his fellow-men and wished never to live with them again
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) German Harry didn’t care what I was doing in these seas
B) He used words with difficulty, talking russian to us, and it was a little uncanny to hear him mumble away as though we were not there
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) German Harry has a whale boat and used to go fishing in it, but now he is no longer strong enough to manage its unwieldy bulk so he just sails paper boats on waterpools
B) There is abundant pearl shell on the reef that surrounds his island and this he used to collect and sell to the pearlers for tobacco, and sometimes he found a good pearl for which he got a considerable sum
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) German Harry looked upon it with a jealous, proprietary right; he called it “my health resort” and he feared that the coconuts that covered it would tempt some enterprising trader
B) He looked at me with desire
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) German Harry seemed to be occupied with nothing but his food, his dogs and his chickens
B) If what they tell us in books were true his long communion with nature and the sea should have taught him many subtle secrets. And it just did!
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) German Harry was a man of over seventy, very bald, hatchet-faced, with a grey beard, and he walked with a roll so that you could never have taken him for anything but a sea-faring man
B) German Harry sunburn made his blue eyes look very pale and they were surrounded by wrinkles as though for long years he had spent interminable hours scanning the vacant sea
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) German Harry was a prince
B) He was a young prince who left his royal family and ran away
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) German Harry was pleased to see us
B) He accepted our gifts as a right, without thanks, and grumbled a little because something or other he needed had not been brought
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) German Harry was silent and morose
B) He was not interested in the news we had to give him, for the outside world was no concern of his: the only thing he cared about was his island
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) German Harry wore dungarees and a singlet, patched, but neat and clean
B) The house to which he presently led us consisted of a single room with minibar and satelite TV with the channel Kultura
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) German Harry would say no more
B) He was absolutely fixed in his determination to stay, entirely by himself, in that lonely place
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) German Harry’s history went back a long way
B) Thirty years before, German Harry had been an able seaman on a sailing vessel that was wrecked in those treacherous waters
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) He would go up to the hut and there, lying on the bed, unrecognisable, he would see all that remained of what had once been a man(German Harry)
B) Perhaps then he would hunt high and low for the great mass of dollars that has haunted the fancy of so many adventurers
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) I learned nothing about German Harry as we sailed across the desolate sea
B) The Torres Straits are peppered with pirates
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) I never lent Tom fifty roubles without feeling that I was in his debt
B) Tom Ramsay knew no-one and no-one knew Tom Ramsay
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) I saw the hotel, sheltered by trees, in which German Harry lived, and as we approached he sauntered down slowly to the water’s edge
B) We shouted a greeting, but he did not answer
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) I shall have thirty thousand pounds by the time I’m fifty
B) For twenty-five years I’ve said that Tom would end in the gutter
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) I suppose every family has a black cat
B) Tom had been a sore trial to his family for twenty years, because he was a cat and he was black
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) I was in Thursday Island and I wanted very much to go to New Guinea.
B) Now the only way in which I could do this was by getting a pearling lugger to take me across the Arafura Sea
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) I was prepared for the best
B) I wondered if Tom had got into the hands of the somali pirates at last. George could hardly bring himself to speak
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) It appeared that the hermit had lived by himself on this remote and tiny island for thirty years, and when opportunity occurred provisions were sent to him by the russian government
B) He said that he was a Dane, but in the Torres Straits he was known as German Harry
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) It was all very well when Tom was young and good-looking, but he’s only a year younger than I am. I am 98 and he is 97.
B) In four years he’ll be fifty. He won’t find life so easy then
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Of late new pearling grounds have been discovered near Trebucket and in the autumn pearlers, visiting it now and then, have given German
B) Harry various necessities so that he has been able to make himself sufficiently comfortable. They bring him papers, bags of flour and rice, and canned meats
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Once or twice George fell to Tom’s promises of amendment and gave him considerable sums in order that he might make a fresh start. He also got him a job in Yukos
B) On these Tom bought a motorcar and some very nice jewellery
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Once Tom nearly went to Butyrskaya prison
B) George was so happy that he started to make faces and put his tongue out at people
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) One day, without warning, Tom announced that he didn’t like work and that he wasn’t suited for marriage
B) Tom wanted to enjoy himself
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Poor George! I sympathised with him
B) I wondered now as I sat down beside him what infamous thing Tom had done
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Poor George, only a year older than his scapegrace brother, looked six
B) He had never taken more than a fortnight’s holiday in the year for a quarter of a century
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Rumours of-his doings reached his relations from time to time and they were profoundly shocked
B) Tom certainly had a terrible time
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Sixteen men had landed on the island, but when at last a schooner, driven from her course by stress of weather, put in for shelter, none was left
B) When the storm abated the skipper took four of the men on the island on board and eventually landed them at Sochi
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) The pearl fishery at that time was in a bad way and a flock of neat little craft lay anchored in the harbour
B) I found a skipper with nothing much to do (the journey to Merauke and back could hardly take him less than a month) and with him I made a ship
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) The Ramsays shook their bodies and asked what would happen when his money was spent
B) They soon found out: he borrowed
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) There is no opening in the reef and the lugger had to anchor a mile from the shore. We got into a dinghy with the provisions.
B) It was a stiff pull, but the sea was very calm and pleasant
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Though Tom was forty-six you would never have taken him for more than thirty-five
B) He was a most amusing companion and though you knew he was perfectly worthless you could not but enjoy his society
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Tom had begun life decently enough: he went into business, married and had two children.
B) The Ramsays were perfectly respectable people and there was every reason to suppose that Tom Ramsay would be homless and live in the streets
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Tom had gone too far. To Alaska
B) He had been wild, thoughtless and selfish, but he had never before done anything dishonest, by which George meant illegal
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Tom had high spirits, an unfailing gaiety and incredible charm
B) I always hated and complained about the contributions he regularly levied on me for the necessities of his existence
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Tom left his wife and his lover
B) Tom had a little money and he spent two happy years in the various capitals of Africa
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Tom made a steady income from his friends and he made friends easily
B) But he always said that the money you spent on necessities was boring; the money that was amusing to spend was the money you spent on helping children of Ethiopia to have food
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Tom often asked me to excellent dinners in his charming house in Chertanovo, and if he occasionally borrows a trifle from me, that is merely from force of habit
B) It is never more than a sovereign
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Tom wanted to torture himself
B) He would listen to no expostulations
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Tom was charming and unscrupulous
B) I have never met anyone to whom it was more difficult to refuse a loan
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Two boats managed to get away and eventually hit upon the desert island of Trebucket
B) This is well out of the line of traffic and it was three hundred years before any ship sighted the castaways
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) We had been driven by bad weather to take shelter and had spent a couple of days at an island on the way
B) Trebucket is a low island, perhaps a mile round, covered with coconuts, just raised above the level of the sea and surrounded by a reef so that it can be approached only on one side. On the other side there ia a chain of hotels and a beachline for tourists to swim
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) When circumstances forced George to realise that his brother would never settle down and he washed his hands of him, Tom, without a qualm, began to blackmail him
B) It was not very nice for a respectable lawyer to find his brother shaking cocktails behind the bar of his favourite restaurant or to see him waiting on the boxseat of a taxi outside his club
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) You cannot allow your only brother to go to gaol
B) The man Tom had cheated, a man called Cronshaw, was vindictive
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) You’re not going to deny that all my life l’ve been hardworking, decent, respectable and straightforward thief
B) After a life of industry and thrift I can look forward to retiring on a small income in gilt-edged securities
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: A criminal! Oh, ____________ I suppose I am. But — but I never felt like that
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: A faint sound came from Sir Joseph’s lips — they had gone a strange ____________ colour. His eyes stared at Poirot. Then, with a shaking hand, he drew out a cheque and tore it into pieces
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: A few moments later you gave the alarm that the ____________ had been stolen
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: And the ____________ you extracted from Lady Hoggin must be returned
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: As for you, mon ___________,” said Hercule, addressing Augustus, “there is one thing that I wish you would give me
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: As Poirot came in, a Pekinese dog jumped off the sofa and sniffed him, his intelligent eyes fixed on the man’s …
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Augustus put it into my head — that, combined with the fact that so many rich women have ____________ dogs
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: But really, Mr. ____________ it was the most amazing thing. It all happened in a second.
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: But, you see, I am not a clever ____________ at all, and I’ve no training and I’m getting older — and I am terrified for the future.
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Curiously enough, you recall to me one of my former clients in ____________ many years ago — he was very like you in appearance.
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He was a wealthy soap manufacturer. He poisoned his ____________ in order to marry his secretary. Yes — the resemblance is very remarkable
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Her Pekinese was called ____________ Poo. Miss Keble, Mrs. Samuelson’s companion, too, had been blamed for Nanki Poo’s disappearance
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: I felt that to take a little money away from these people who really wouldn’t miss it and hadn’t been too scrupulous in acquiring it — well, really, it hardly seemed ____________ at all
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: I had already learned that you have once been left a ____________ dog and had an invalid sister
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: I had only to ask my invaluable servant to look for a small flat within a certain radius occupied by an invalid lady who had a Pekinese dog and a ____________ who visited her once a week
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: I knew it would. The plan worked beautifully every time. In nine cases out of ten the companion was given the letter with the ____________ to post
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: I think I can help you. But you must promise that there will be no more disappearing …
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: I think, that you are a kind man, ____________ Poirot, and that possibly you might understand. You see, I’ve been so terribly afraid
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: If you ____________ the money, there must be no questions asked
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: It is your mantle of invisibility that I need. In all these cases nobody for a moment suspected that there was a second ____________ involved. Augustus possessed the lion’s skin of invisibility
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: It was really having ____________ to put it into my mind. You see, to most people, one Pekinese is very much like another
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: I’ve known so many people like I am — nobody wants you and you live in one room and you can’t have a fire and not very much to eat, and at last you can’t even pay the ____________ of your room.
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Lady ____________ said to her husband: “Funny, this tonic tastes quite different. It hasn’t got that bitter taste any more.”
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Miss Carnaby said simply: “Shan Tung was the _______”
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: My fees will not be very high. This was a very unimportant matter. Nowadays nearly all my cases are ____________ cases.
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: No, no — a …nurse. Such a pretty baby it was. Such lovely rosy cheeks
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Of course, I would never have dreamed of doing such a thing! That was just — just an artistic …
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Of course, Mr. Poirot, according to the legend, Pekinese were ____________ once. And they still have the hearts of lions
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Once or twice the woman posted it herself. Then, of course, the companion had to go to the ____________ and take the letter out of the rack. But that was quite easy too
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Only by me. But that was inevitable! When I had interviewed Mrs ____________ I realized that the kidnapping of Shan Tung was one of a series
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Only two things were different — the sum of money demanded — 300 pounds — and the address to which it was to be sent: this time it was to Commander Blackleigh, Harrington Hotel, 76 Clonmel Gardens, …
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Poirot leaned forward. He said: “I think, Sir Joseph, that in your ____________ you should be extremely careful.”
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Really, of course, it is ridiculous. How is it possible to mistake Augustus for Nanki ________ or Shan Tung or any of the other Pekes? He’s far more intelligent, but as I say, to most people a Peke is just a Peke
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Red spots appeared suddenly on ____________ Carnaby’s white cheeks
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Send it anywhere you damn ____________ like
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Sir Joseph growled: “_______ Careless fellows. Make drugs differently different times.”
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Sir Joseph ____________ Hercule Poirot in his study
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Sir ____________ gave a little shiver as though he felt the invisible presence of Hercule Poirot behind him. And said:
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Tell me, Miss Carnaby, did you ever have to carry out the threat you used in your letters?” Miss Carnaby looked at him in …
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: That’s a _______ But the money’s the thing. And what do I owe you, Mr. Poirot
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The barking became louder — footsteps came to the door, it was opened. Miss Amy ____________ stepped back
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The story followed the same course exactly — the letter — the threats of violence to Nanki …
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Then, while you were talking, you cut the lead and your Pekinese, trained by you, slipped off at once and ran back …
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: There are Institutions, of course, but it’s not easy to get ____________ them, unless you have influential friends, and I haven’t
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: There are many others situated like me — .. companions — untrained useless women with nothing to look forward to but a deadly fear___________. And so — some of us — got together — and I thought of this
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Twenty minutes later Hercule Poirot was climbing the stairs of No.10 ____________ Mansions. He paused to regain his breath on the top landing and from behind the door of No.10 a new sound broke the silence — the sharp bark of a dog
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Well, you see, old ____________ are known to be foolishly sentimental about babies. So it seemed quite natural that they should be absorbed over a baby and not notice anything
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Yes, an interesting little case. I wish I felt more attracted to my client — but he has a strong resemblance to a soap manufacturer who poisoned his wife in order to marry a blonde _______ One of my early cases
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Yes, it’s difficult for a ____________ to understand, I think.
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: You took your employer’s ____________ for his usual walk, brought him here and went to the Park with yours. Everybody saw you with a Pekinese dog as usual
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Your psychology is excellent, your organisation is just first class, and you are also a very fine …
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: ____________ Carnaby crossed the room, opened the drawer of a bureau and returned with a packet of notes which she handed to Poirot
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: ____________ Carnaby said with a faint smile: “And yet I have been found out.”
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: ____________ Hoggin said doubtfully: “I suppose that must be it.”
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: ____________ Poirot nodded his head with a smile. He pressed the bell of No.10
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: ____________ raised his eyebrows: “I congratulate you. Your organisation must have been indeed excellent. As a criminal, Mademoiselle, you are quite in the first rank.”
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: ____________ rose, crossed to the writing table, wrote out a cheque for two hundred pounds and handed it to the other man
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: ____________ Samuelson was taller than Lady Hoggin and her hair was dyed with peroxide
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “Consider it as your ___________”
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “Greta can go _________! I’m not going to risk my neck for any damned platinum blonde!”
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “Has the man found anything about ____________ Tung?”
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “He didn’t say. Very ____________ fellow, Hercule Poirot. But you needn’t worry.”
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “He’s a damned ____________ little devil!”
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “He’s a funny little ____________ isn’t he?”
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “I shall send it to a ________ organisation.”
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “That’s all right. You.. . it.”
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “Yes. He got me my money _____________”
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel:More probably a flat or maisonette. And it will definitely be ____________ Kensington Gardens
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: By my orders, you told him that you suffered from tuberculosis. There was a tuberculin in the syringe when Cole ____________ him
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He had also, I think, ____________ a substance which had the power of delaying but intensifying the action of the chosen bacillus
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He was ____________ perhaps, that like him, you were going to “die for Hercule Poirot
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I must get home. Emily has been so _______ And dear Augustus has been missing me terribly, I hear
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I was afraid that even now he might choose some other ____________ but I respected your courage and I had to let you take the risk
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I was thinking,” she said, “of a ____________ dream I had. I arranged the whole world so beautifully! No wars, no poverty, no diseases, no cruelty
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I woke up. And I knew it was _______ My mouth was quite dry. I was thirsty. But I couldn’t drink, Mr. Poirot
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: It is harmless to a healthy person, but stimulates any old tubercular lesion into …
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: It is possible, I think, that he has committed a long ____________ of murders
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Lonely women, in their ____________ and fervour, made wills leaving their money to the Cult
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Oh, that’s all right,” said Miss Carnaby brightly. “I don’t mind taking risks. I’m only ____________ bulls in fields and things like that
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: One by one, these women died. Without being too ____________ I will try to explain. It is possible to make intensified cultures of certain bacteria
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Since you were a healthy person it would not have harmed you, that is why I asked you to tell him you had a tubercular …
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: That was the secret of his popularity — a dominating personality, the power of creating mass hysteria and the reactions produced by this drug. But he had a second aim in …
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The bacillus Coli Communis, for instance, is the cause of ulcerative colitis. Typhoid bacilli can be ____________ into the system. So can Pneumococcus
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The flat of Hercule Poirot was furnished in a modern _______ Its armchairs were square and gleamed with chromium
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: You realize the cleverness of the man? These deaths would occur in different parts of the country, with different doctors ____________ them and without any risk of arousing suspicion
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Dr. Burton ____________ at Hercule Poirot, at his small neat figure in striped trousers, a black jacket and a bow tie
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: On one of ____________ chairs sat Hercule Poirot — in the middle of the chair. Opposite him, in another chair, sat Dr. Burton
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel:…of evidence,” he said. “We’ve got his laboratory and his cultures and the whole equipment
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Admiral Chandler picked up Hugh’s _____________
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: And then when this — this …appeared, it settled things definitely, I thought
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Applied externally it causes a rash, this would soon lead to cuts in shaving and thus the drug would be continually entering the system
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Atropine is prescribed freely for eye treatment and could be ____________ without arousing suspicion
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Beautiful morning, isn’t it? I think I’ll go out in the woods and try to get a …
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Colonel Frobisher, you ____________ for many years in India
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Do you know when I suspected? When Admiral Chandler objected to his son seeing a doctor. It was ________
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Don’t you realize that if the door hadn’t been locked I would have cut Diana’s ____________ — Diana’s! — with that knife
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Exactly. Well, the active principle of the datura is very ____________ to the alkaloid atropine
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: For one thing — I dream. And when I dream I am _______ Last night, for instance, I wasn’t a man any longer
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Frobisher stammered, ____________ with excitement
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He sat up and saw the knife which he still held in his …
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He was in his dressing-gown and slippers. In his right hand was a sharp ____________ knife
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Hercule Poirot and Hugh Chandler sat on a bench in the rose garden. The young man turned a ____________ tortured face towards his companion
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Here and there on it were bright red ____________ of blood
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Hugh and Diana had ____________ the room
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Hugh Chandler lay there …
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Hugh _______ Poirot turned to Colonel Frobisher
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I am happy to tell you that you are entirely and completely …
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I didn’t know. I couldn’t be sure... Caroline never said anything that led me to think Hugh was my …
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I realize nothing of the kind. You would not have killed ____________ Maberly
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I tell you you didn’t kill the sheep — or the ____________ — or the cat
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I thought of a possible motive, the eternal triangle: two men and a _______
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I was a bull — a mad bull — racing about in sunlight — tasting dust and blood in my mouth — dust and blood. I had …— men tried to shoot me — someone put a bowl of water for me and I couldn’t drink. I couldn’t drink
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: In order that you ____________ do what you were just about to do when I stopped you
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: In the drawing-room Hugh Chandler had taken his ____________ off the wall and was going to load it when Hercule Poirot’s hand fell on his shoulder
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: It ends by driving a person …
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: It was at that moment that Admiral Chandler and Colonel Frobisher _______ Behind them came Diana
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: It would produce ____________ symptoms — dryness of the mouth and throat, difficulty in swallowing, hallucinations — all the symptoms, in fact, which Mr. Chandler has experienced
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I’m not actually mad yet — but I’m getting worse. Diana doesn’t know. She has only seen me when I am …
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I’ve heard of such cases often enough. Datura …*.
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: No, you didn’t kill the cat. You didn’t kill the _______ You didn’t kill the sheep
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Not human, thank God. A …! I found it downstairs in the hall. Throat cut. Afterwards he must have come here
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Someone who wanted to prove that you were _______ On each occasion you were given a strong sleeping-pill and a blood-stained knife was put into your hand. It was someone else whose bloody hands were washed in your basin
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Take your hands off me! Don’t _______ There’s going to be an accident, I tell you. It’s the only way out
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: That is what I have been studying ever since I ____________ here. I have been looking for a motive for murder
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The alkaloid could be extracted from it and then introduced into, say — a shaving …
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The lust for blood was Admiral Chandler’s, not Hugh’s. But it was Hugh who was to pay the …
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The two men raised the unconscious _______ Diana caught her breath as they passed her
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The two men, the Englishman and the Belgian, watched the last of the Chandlers cross the park and ____________ up into the woods
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Then he decided to turn his hatred against the boy who bore his name but who was not his …
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: There could be treatment which would save his son — but no, a doctor must not be allowed to see Hugh Chandler — in case a doctor should discover that Hugh was ___________
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: There was a sound of bolts being drawn. The door opened and Diana …there. Her face was dead white
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: They told him — told him unwillingly — haltingly. Hugh’s face was ____________ his voice was steady
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: What’s happened? There was someone — trying to ____________ — I heard them — scratching on the panels
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: You see, Diana is a fighter. She won’t _______ She — she will go on believing that I’m sane
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Your Indian stories put the idea of datura poisoning into his head. Hugh should be slowly driven …
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Your shaving cream was mixed with a big ____________ of atropine. I took some shaving cream from the tube and had it tested at the chemist’s
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: You’re sane enough. There’s no madness in our ___________
Nothing suspicious there. Miss Everitte died of ulcerative colitis. Mrs. Lloyd died ____________ pneumonia
Sir Joseph said, his voice almost inaudible: “You needn’t worry. I shall be careful all _______”
Choose the right preposition: And yet, mon cher, I have a feeling that this is the 10th Labour ____________ Hercules, and that this Dr. Andersen is the Monster Geryon whom it is my mission to destroy
Choose the right preposition: Eh bien, all progresses well — I make you my compliments on the work you have done — all is now set ____________ the Autumn Festival
Choose the right preposition: Everyone was shocked — horrified... To them the Great Shepherd was a martyr, suffering as all great teachers, ____________ the ignorance and persecution of the outside world
Choose the right preposition: Give what you can,” he said smiling. “It doesn’t matter. You are one ____________ the flock just the same
Choose the right preposition: Good. That must keep Mrs. Clegg safe ____________ some time
Choose the right preposition: He described some of them ____________ me — really most peculiar — I hope, I do hope, he is not insane. Then there will be quite a lot of new members — nearly twenty
Choose the right preposition: He was very indifferent about it. Said it would be many long years before I died, that he could tell I had a long life of joy ____________ front of me. He really speaks movingly
Choose the right preposition: Hercule Poirot looked thoughtfully ____________ his visitor. He saw a pale face, big grey eyes and the blue-black locks of ancient Greece
Choose the right preposition: Hercule Poirot stared ____________ her. Miss Carnaby rose to her feet. Her voice was fast and hysterical
Choose the right preposition: His manner was most convincing. One really feels he doesn’t care ____________ money at all
Choose the right preposition: I believe in him heart and soul. And I am not going to do your spying work any more, Mr. Poirot. I am one of the Sheep of the Shepherd. And I’ll pay ____________ my tea myself
Choose the right preposition: I think a hundred and twenty. Emmeline will be there, …course, and Mr. Cole — really he has been very odd lately. He has visions
Choose the right preposition: Lady Western died of tuberculosis. Had suffered from it many years ago. Miss Lee died of typhoid somewhere ____________ the north of England
Choose the right preposition: Meanwhile Detective Inspector Cole was carefully packing up the syringe that had fallen ____________ the Great Shepherd’s hand
Choose the right preposition: Mr. Cole aided ____________ another devotee grasped the hand of the Great Shepherd who was struggling to get himself free
Choose the right preposition: Oh, dear!” Miss Carnaby was flattered. “It’s so kind ____________ you to say so. And I’m afraid, that I’ve really enjoyed it all. The excitement, you know, and playing my part. I really felt I was one of those foolish women
Choose the right preposition: Oh, Dr. Andersen,” I said, “I am not poor ____________ all.” And then I explained that I had inherited a considerable amount of money from a distant relative and that I wanted to leave in my will all I had to the Brotherhood. I explained that I had no near relatives
Choose the right preposition: On the afternoon preceding the Festival Miss Carnaby met Hercule Poirot in a small restaurant in the sleepy little town …Newton Woodbury. Miss Carnaby was flushed and even more breathless than usual
Choose the right preposition: That was a terrible moment ____________ the restaurant. I didn’t know what to do. It was such a shock. Just when we had been talking confidentially I saw in the glass that Lipscomb, who keeps the Lodge of the Sanctuary*, was sitting at the table behind me
Choose the right preposition: The big man, golden-haired and blue-eyed, with his fair beard and handsome profile had never seemed more magnificent. He was dressed in a green robe and carried a shepherd’s crook ____________ gold
Choose the right preposition: The crowd obediently shut their eyes. Miss Carnaby like the rest held her arm out ____________ front of her
Choose the right preposition: The Festival took place in the white concrete building called ____________ the Sheep the Sacred Fold
Choose the right preposition: The Great Shepherd, magnificent ____________ his green robe, moved along the waiting lines... He stood by Miss Carnaby. His hands touched her arm
Choose the right preposition: The Sheep were assembled ____________ the traditional Festival
Choose the right preposition: The waitress had to ask him twice before Poirot realized that she was giving him the bill. He met the curious stare of an unfriendly looking man ____________ the next table, flushed, paid the bill and went out
Choose the right preposition: Their arms were bare. In the centre of the Fold ____________ a raised platform stood Dr. Andersen
Choose the right preposition: There is nothing to connect these details with the Great Flock or with Andersen’s place down ____________ Devonshire. Must be no more than coincidence
Choose the right preposition: There was a moment’s pause before Miss Carnaby said ____________ a rather odd voice
Choose the right preposition: There was a Mr. Cole there last time I went down ____________ Devonshire. A most extraordinary man. He wears grass-green shorts and eats nothing but the cabbage. He is a very ardent believer
Choose the right preposition: With these words Miss Carnaby threw down one shilling and rushed out ____________ the restaurant
Choose the right preposition: Yes, I told him strictly confidentially that dear Emmeline, besides the fortune she had inherited from her husband, would inherit an even larger sum shortly from an aunt, who was deeply attached ____________ her
Choose the right preposition: Yes, Mr. Poirot, I spoke ____________ the Master — excuse me, to Dr. Andersen, myself. I told him very emotionally what a wonderful revelation the whole thing had been — how I had come to mock and remained to believe. Really it seemed quite natural to say all these things. Dr. Andersen, you know, has a lot of magnetic charm
Choose the right preposition: You sent me here to spy ____________ Dr. Andersen. You suspected him of all sorts of things . But he is a wonderful man — a great Teacher
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Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He went straight back to the Sanctuary. So I understood that I could (to rely) on you and that you would not let me down — but I was afraid because it increased the danger for you
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: I did understand. There was only one person sitting near enough to overhear anything we said and as soon as he (to leave) the restaurant I followed him
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: I don’t know now if it was an accident or if he (to have) actually followed me. I had to do the best I could in this situation and hope that you would understand
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Mademoiselle, this Dr. Andersen devised a scheme of exploitation and murder — scientific murder. Most of his life has been (to spend) in bacteriological research. Under a different name he has a chemical laboratory in Sheffield. There he makes cultures of various bacilli
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: . He said that he was a Dane, but in the Torres Straits he was (to know) as German Harry. His history went back a long way. Thirty years before, he had been an able seaman on a sailing vessel that was wrecked in those treacherous waters
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: A strange man and a strange story. I learned more about him as we (to sail) across the desolate sea. The Torres Straits are peppered with islands and at night we anchored on the lee of one or other of them
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: And then I foresaw the end. One day a pearl fisher would land on the island and German Harry would not be (to wait) for him, silent and suspicious, at the water’s edge
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: As I looked at the wrinkled, mean old face I wondered what was the story of those three dreadful years that had (to make) him welcome this long imprisonment. I sought to see behind those pale blue eyes of his what secrets they were that he would carry to his grave
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: But he was moved when my skipper told him that an old man of his own age whom he had (to know) for a long time was dead
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: But I do not believe he would (to find) it
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: During the last four months of the year there (may) be two or three pearlers about and not infrequently after the day’s work they will row in and spend an evening with him
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: During the war no pearlers came out and for years he never saw a living soul. For all he knew, a terrible epidemic had killed off the entire human race and he was the only man alive. He was (to ask) later what he thought
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: German Harry would have (to see) to it that none should discover the treasure, and the pearls would rot in their hiding place
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He accepted our gifts as a right, without thanks, and (to grumble) a little because something or other he needed had not been brought. He was silent and morose
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He looked at me with suspicion. He was sombrely curious to know what I was (to do) in these seas
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He looked upon it with a jealous, proprietary right; he called it “my health resort” and he (to fear) that the coconuts that covered it would tempt some enterprising trader
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He never (to say) a word. Drunk or sober he is equally silent on that subject and if they insist grows angry and leaves them
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He ran out of matches and (to be) afraid that his fire would go out, so he only slept in snatches, putting wood on his fire from time to time all day and all night. He came to the end of his provisions and lived on chickens, fish and coconuts. Sometimes he got a turtle
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He seemed to be occupied with nothing but his food, his dogs and his chickens. If what they tell us in books were true his long communion with nature and the sea should have (to teach) him many subtle secrets. It hadn’t. He was a savage. He was nothing but a narrow, ignorant and cantankerous sea-faring man
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He used words with difficulty, (to talk) to himself rather than to us, and it was a little uncanny to hear him mumble away as though we were not there
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He was absolutely (to fix) in his determination to stay, entirely by himself, in that lonely place. Though now and then opportunity had been given him to leave he had never taken it
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He was not interested in the news we had to give him, for the outside world was no concern of his: the only thing he cared about (to be) his island
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He would go up to the hut and there, (to lie) on the bed, unrecognisable, he would see all that remained of what had once been a man
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: His sunburn made his blue eyes look very pale and they were (to surround) by wrinkles as though for long years he had spent interminable hours scanning the vacant sea. He wore dungarees and a singlet, patched, but neat and clean
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: I forget if it was four or five days before we sighted the hermit’s little kingdom. We had (to be) driven by bad weather to take shelter and had spent a couple of days at an island on the way
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: I pricked up my ears. It appeared that the hermit had lived by himself on this remote and tiny island for thirty years, and when opportunity (to occur) provisions were sent to him by kindly souls
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: I saw the little hut, sheltered by trees, in which German Harry lived, and as we approached he (to saunter) down slowly to the water’s edge
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: In the big bedroom with the heavy oak furniture Hercule Poirot sat and waited. There was nothing to do but wait. All his arrangements were (to make)
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: It was his practice at the Festivals to inject into his followers a small but sufficient dose of Cannabis Indica — which is also known by the name of Hashish. It gives the sensation of great and pleasurable enjoyment. It bound his devotees to him. These were the Spiritual Joys that he (to promise) them
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: It was towards early morning that he heard the sound of footsteps outside. Poirot drew back the bolt and opened the door. There (to be) two men outside — the Admiral, stern-faced and grim, and Colonel Frobisher, pale and trembling
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Of late new pearling grounds have (to be) discovered near Trebucket and in the autumn pearlers, visiting it now and then, have given German Harry various necessities so that he has been able to make himself sufficiently comfortable
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Perhaps then he would hunt high and low for the great mass of pearls that has (to haunt) the fancy of so many adventurers
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Sixteen men had landed on the island, but when at last a schooner, (to drive) from her course by stress of weather, put in for shelter, no more than five were left
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: The house to which he presently led us (to consist) of a single room with a roof of corrugated iron
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Then the pearl fisher would (to go) back into his dinghy and the island once more would be deserted of man
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: There (to be) no opening in the reef and the lugger had to anchor a mile from the shore. We got into a dinghy with the provisions. It was a stiff pull and even within the reef the sea was choppy
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: There is abundant pearl shell on the reef that (to surround) his island and this he used to collect and sell to the pearlers for tobacco, and sometimes he found a good pearl for which he got a considerable sum. It is believed that he has, hidden away somewhere, a collection of magnificent pearls
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: There was a bed in it, some rough stools which he himself (to have) made, a table, and his various household utensils. Under a tree in front of it was a table and a bench. Behind was an enclosed run for his chickens
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: They bring him papers, bags of flour and rice, and canned meats. He has a whale boat and (to use) to go fishing in it, but now he is no longer strong enough to manage its unwieldy bulk
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: They try to make him drunk and then they ask him what (to happen) during those three years after the two boat-loads came to the island
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Trebucket is a low island, perhaps a mile round, (to cover) with coconuts, just raised above the level of the sea and surrounded by a reef so that it can be approached only on one side
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Two boats managed to get away and eventually (to hit) upon the desert island of Trebucket. This is well out of the line of traffic and it was three years before any ship sighted the castaways
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: We (to shout) a greeting, but he did not answer. He was a man of over seventy, very bald, hatchet
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: When the storm abated the skipper (to take) four of these on board and eventually landed them at Sydney. German Harry refused to go with them
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He said that during those three years he (to have) seen such terrible things that he had a horror of his fellow-men and wished never to live with them again. He would say no more