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Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None Test Study Guide Eng. 9

 Know the order in which the murders took place, and how each victim died  Where was each murdered?  Which 4 items went missing, and where did they turn up?  How did Scotland Yard piece together the crime, and how did they finally find out who did it?  What does the storm symbolize, and how does it advance the plot?  How does the term Swan Song relate to the murderer and murder plan?  What reasons does the murderer give for planning and carrying out the murders (give at least 2 reasons)?  What two objects did the murderer use to foretell the deaths and to count them down?  Why did Vera, Blore, Lombard, Rogers, & Macarthur commit the crimes they committed (their motivation for murder before coming to the island)?  Who, initially, is believed to be the murderer?  Which guest fakes his death?  Who is U.N. Owen? What do we learn about her/him in the novel’s opening pages?  Who did the murderer kill that was not on the island, and how did he kill that person?  What point of view is ATTWN written from? (hint: check your vocab L. 25)  Who swallowed a red herring?  SAT Vocab from the novel: surreptitious, perjury, acquiesce, abode, malicious, succinctly, exonerated  Which of the ten really had NOTHING AT ALL to do with the wrongful death of a person before coming to the island?

Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None Test Study Guide Eng. 9

 Know the order in which the murders took place, and how each victim died  Where was each murdered?  Which 4 items went missing, and where did they turn up?  How did Scotland Yard piece together the crime, and how did they finally find out who did it?  What does the storm symbolize, and how does it advance the plot?  How does the term Swan Song relate to the murderer and murder plan?  What reasons does the murderer give for planning and carrying out the murders (give at least 2 reasons)?  What two objects did the murderer use to foretell the deaths and to count them down?  Why did Vera, Blore, Lombard, Rogers, & Macarthur commit the crimes they committed (their motivation for murder before coming to the island)?  Who, initially, is believed to be the murderer?  Which guest fakes his death?  Who is U.N. Owen? What do we learn about her/him in the novel’s opening pages?  Who did the murderer kill that was not on the island, and how did he kill that person?  What point of view is ATTWN written from? (hint: check your vocab L. 25)  Who swallowed a red herring?  SAT Vocab from the novel: surreptitious, perjury, acquiesce, abode, malicious, succinctly, exonerated  Which of the ten really had NOTHING AT ALL to do with the wrongful death of a person before coming to the island?