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12 Open answers
3 a True
b False
c False
d True
e False
f True
g True
h False
i True
j False
4 a interested in
b more
c would not
d ruined
e disappointment
f doesnt hesitate
g low
h Something
i concerned
j very different
5 a Linnet Ridgeway is beautiful, young (twenty years
old) and charming. She has money and good looks;
she is a natural beauty, with an enthusiastic face.
She has perfect health. She is wonderfully efficient
and good at doing the right thing. She is The Girl
Who Has Everything.
b Joanna Southwood looks rather dull next to Linnet.
She has a long, clever face and strange eye make-up.
She is envious of Linnet.
c Jacqueline de Bellefort is Linnets oldest friend. She
is poor, proud and usually excited about something.
She is a pretty girl, not beautiful but definitely
attractive, with dark curly hair and enormous eyes.
She is very much in love with Simon Doyle.
d Simon Doyle is simple, boyish, charming and
completely loveable. He has no money, although
he is from a good family. He is young, tall and
handsome, with broad shoulders, dark blue eyes,
curly brown hair and a simple, boyish smile.
e Hercule Poirot is a small, strange-looking man, with
a big moustache. He is a famous Belgian detective.
f Tim Allerton is a tall, thin young man with dark
hair and sad eyes, who describes himself as a writer.
g Cornelia Robson is a large girl with big doglike
eyes. She is poor, and not a social success in New
York.
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6 a Charles Windlesham wanted Linnet Ridgeway

to marry him. He seemed to love her and was
disappointed when she didnt want to marry him.
b Jacqueline de Bellefort was madly in love with
Simon Doyle and planned to marry him. She also
trusted Linnet as her oldest and dearest friend. Both
Simon and Linnet hurt her very much by ignoring
her feelings and marrying each other.
c Mrs Allerton thinks that Linnets behaviour is
unacceptable in polite society. People should not
steal boyfriends from their best friends.
d Andrew Pennington and Sterndale Rockford are
Linnet Ridgeways American trustees and are in
charge of her money. They are not happy when
she marries a poor man they have never heard of.
They seem worried about his control over Linnets
financial affairs.
7 Open answers
8 a Rosalie Otterbourne
b Mrs Otterbourne
c Linnet Doyle
d Jacqueline de Bellefort
e Simon Doyle
9 a Mr Ferguson
b Signor Richetti
c Mrs Allerton
d Miss Van Schuyler
e Cornelia Robson
f Rosalie Otterbourne
g Jacqueline de Bellefort
h Linnet Doyle
i Tim Allerton
j Andrew Pennington
k Jim Fanthorp
l Miss Bowers
10 a Tim Allerton is uncomfortable near Hercule Poirot.
b Rosalie Otterbourne does not like the hotel at
Assuan and being surrounded by so many older
guests. She thinks that Tim Allerton is arrogant.
She hates Linnet Doyle because Linnet has
everything. She is embarrassed by her mother.
She is upset by Egypt and by people in general.
c Mrs Otterbourne is uncomfortable in Egypt and
does not like travelling by boat. She feels that life
has cheated her.
d Signor Richetti does not like Mr Fergusons
opinions on art and history.

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e Mrs Allerton does not like the way Joanna

Southwood lives her life and she does not like her
sons friendship with that young woman. She also
finds Jacqueline de Bellefort frightening.
f Mr Ferguson seems to hate anyone who has money.
He also hates museums, ruins and castles. He
dislikes people who do not work.
g Miss Van Schuyler does not like anyone who she
considers less important than herself.
h Mr Fanthorp does not like it when Mr Pennington
tries to rush Linnet Doyle into signing a pile of
documents.
i Mr Pennington does not like having a pile of
unsigned documents.
1112 Open answers
13 a 2nd b 4th c 1st d 3rd e 2nd f 4th g 3rd

h 1st
14 Possible answers:
a True
b True
c False
d True
e False
f False
g True
h False
i True
j False
k True
l False
15 Open answers
16 a Jacqueline de Bellefort
b Windlesham
c Sir George Wode
d Louise Bourget
e Fleetwood
f Andrew Pennington
g Cornelia Robson
h Mr Ferguson
1718 Open answers
19 a Louise Bourget; medical knife; Dr Bessner; she
knew who killed Linnet Doyle; Jacqueline de
Bellefort
b Mrs Otterbourne; a heavy gun; Andrew
Pennington; she knew who killed Louise Bourget;
Jacqueline de Bellefort

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20 a nice; has spirit

b his title; his important, wealthy family
c extraordinary; lovely
d sensible
e kind; knows a lot
21 Possible answers:
a The splash is made by Rosalie Otterbourne
throwing her mothers bottles of alcohol into the
river. We learn that Mrs Otterbourne has a drinking
problem.
b Tim Allerton, with his cousin Joanna Southwood,
is a jewel thief.
c Miss Van Schuyler is also a thief. She has a habit
of stealing, and stole Linnet Doyles pearls on the
night of the first murder.
d The piece of a 100 note in Louise Bourgets
fingers shows that she was blackmailing someone
because she knew something about Linnet Doyles
murderer.
e Linnets father caused the financial ruin of
Cornelias father.
f Andrew Pennington lies about which ship he
travelled on from the United States to Europe. He
also pretends that it was a coincidence that he met
Simon and Linnet in Egypt.
g The vegetables in Signor Richettis telegram refer
to weapons. This shows that he is the man that
Colonel Race is looking for.
h Simon uses Miss Van Schuylers shawl to hide the
noise of the pistol when he shoots himself in the
leg.
i The third bullet explains how Simon was able to
kill Linnet. The first bullet did not hit his leg.
j Jacqueline followed her dream (her star) without
worrying about doing something evil.
2231 Open answers

Discussion activities key

1

Linnet

Jackie

Charles

Simon

3
is poor

7
is rich

3
marries

2 4 Open answers

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5 Mayfair is an area in London, surrounded by Oxford
Street, Piccadilly, Green Park and Regent Street.
It became famous because the British version of
Monopoly the board game included it as one of
the most exclusive and expensive areas of London and
the world. It is both a commercial and residential area
and has exclusive and expensive hotels, restaurants,
shops, corporate headquarters, real estate offices and
private residences. It gets its name from the Fair, that
was held there in May in the seventeenth century.
6 Open answers
7 Open answers: Joannes actions: She asks Linnet to let
her wear her pearls because she loves them; she says
that nobody wants poor, unsuccessful friends and she
would abandon any impoverished friend; she admits
she envies Linnet for all she is and has; she helps her
cousin Tim with his investments; she likes talking
about people; she plans to open a shop in Mayfair; she
complains about not having money but spends a lot,
and so probably doesnt pay her bills.
810 Open answers
11 Possible answer: yes; there are reasons to believe that
Simon Doyle didnt love Jackie as much because he left
her and married Linnet.
12 Open answers: Mrs Otterbourne will eventually be
killed in Egypt, though the reader does not know yet.
1317 Open answers
18 Possible answer: Elephantine is an island near Aswan,
close to the first Cataract of the Nile. It is the home to
many ancient artefacts, among them a nilometre, an
instrument that was used to measure the water level
of the river. The Elephantine museum holds, among
other attractions, a mummified ram of Khnum.
19 On page 27 it refers to the plan to kill Linnet he had
made with Jackie and which the reader still does not
know about; on page 29 it probably refers to the trip
Simon and Linnet were embarked on.
2022 Open answers
23 Open answers: it refers to Linnets murder.
24 Pennington lies about why and how he came to Egypt;
the reader doesnt know yet that he needs Linnet to
sign some papers because, having got married, she
can now take full possession of her fortune and he
has been using her money. Poirot probably suspected
something like this when he asked Simon about
Linnets age.

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2529 Open answers

30 Open answers. Lyrics: Frankie and Johnnie were
lovers / Lordy how they did love / They swore to be
true to each other / Just as true as the stars above / He
was her man but hes doing her wrong // Frankie she
was a good woman / Just as every one knows / She
gave her man a hundred dollars / Just to buy him a
new suit of clothes / He was her man but he done her
wrong // Johnnie went down to the corner / He asked
for a glass of beer / Frankie went down in an hour or
so / Said has my loving Johnnie been here / Hes my
man but hes doing me wrong // I aint gonna tell you
no stories / I aint gonna tell you no lies / I saw your
lovin Johnnie / Making love to Nellie Bligh / Hes
your man but hes doing you wrong // Frankie went
home in a hurry / She didnt go for fun / She hurried
home to get a hold of / A big forty four gun / Hes
her man but hes doing her wrong // Roll me over
darling / Roll me over slow / Roll me on my right
side / Cause my left one hurts me so / Hes my man
but he done me wrong
3133 Open answers
34 Possible answers
Time
Some time
after 10
Some time
before 1.10,
10.30
Early in the
evening,
Early in the
evening
Before 11
11.20

11.20
Some time
after 11,

At about
midnight,

Passenger
Notes
Miss Van Schuyler goes to sleep
Miss Van Schuyler hears Louise
leave Linnets
cabin
Mrs Allerton
goes to sleep
Tim Allerton
goes to sleep
Rosalie and Mrs
Otterbourne
Richetti
Doyle, Jackie,
Fanthorp and
Cornelia
Mr Pennington
and Linnet
Louise Bourget

Ferguson

go to bed
goes to bed
are in the
lounge
have gone to
sleep
helps Linnet
to undress and
goes to her
cabin
goes to bed

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At about
midnight,
At 12.20,
12.20 till
morning,
12.20,
12.25

12.30

12.35 till
morning
1.00
All night
1.10

During the
night

Pennington

hears noise
outside Dr
Bessners cabin
go to Jackies
Jackie and Mr
Fanthorp
cabin
Jackie
stays in her
cabin with Miss
bowers
Cornelia
fetches Miss
Bowers
Fanthorp and Dr carry Doyle to
Bessner
Dr Bessners
cabin
Fanthorp
does not find
the gun in the
lounge
Simon
stays in Dr
Bessners cabin
Fanthorp
hears a splash
Fleetwood
sleeps in his
cabin
Miss Van Schuyler sees Rosalie
drop something
overboard.
Mrs Allerton,
hear a splash
Ferguson and Tim

3542 Open answers

43 Possible answer: Jacqueline let her heart rule her head.
She loved Doyle and would do anything to be with
him. Students might think that Doyle was also ruled
by his heart.
44 Miss Van Schuyler; open answers; kleptomaniac:
a person with an uncontrollable impulse to steal,
independent of economic needs.
4548 Open answers

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Activity worksheets key

1 Linnet and Simon Doyle;
Marie probably planned to go because she was
planning to marry a man who works in Egypt; she is
Linnets maid;
Poirot, a retired detective;
Jackie plans to go on her honeymoon, but she does
not get married to her fianc; she is Linnets poor ex
classmate and Linnets husbands ex fiance;

Tim Allerton and his mother; they are Joannes cousin

and aunt;
Miss Van Schuyler, a rich lady, her niece Cornelia
Robson and her secretary and nurse Miss Bowers;
Jim Fanthorp; Linnets lawyers nephew;
Mrs Otterbourne and her daughter Rosalie; the reader
still does not know she is a writer of unsuccessful
books that talk about sex.
Mr Pennington; a relation of Linnets in the USA;
the reader still doesnt know he is her trustee.

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7
8

a 3 b 4 c 1 d 2
a 1 b 11 c 3 d 16 e 2 f 13 g 8 h 4
i 12 j 5 k 14 l 7 m 9 n 10 o 15 p 6
Open answers:
Relevant details; the details in the conversations
that will be relevant to solving the crimes are Jackies
assertion that Simon loves her and Tims negative
attitude to Poirot; Mr Fergusons attitude towards
people who do not work, which will make him a
suspect for Race. Other important details that Poirot
overhears: Mr Penningtons desire that Linnet signs
without reading will make him a suspect as he was
using her money for himself; Mr Fanthorps comment
on not signing anything one has not read will make
him a suspect because of his being somehow involved
in Linnets business affairs.
a 2 b 3 c 1 d 2 e 2 f 3
a colonel
b coincidence
c velvet
d temple
e market
a 3 b 3 c 3 d 7 e 7 f 7
a 3, a b 4, b c 1, b d 2, c, d

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9 Possible answers:
a Linnets lifestyle was against his ideology; he had
said she should be shot as an example.
b She hated her for having married Simon.
c Linnet had refused to marry him.
d Linnet had bought his house and was modifying it;
he felt his history was being destroyed.
e Linnet had prevented her maid Marie from going
with him to Egypt.
f He may find it easier to do what he wants with
Linnets fortune if Doyle is in charge of it.
Any other suspect: open answers
10 a 3 b 4 c 1 d 2
11 a 3: 2 were Jacquelines and 1 was Penningtons;
b Simons; Penningtons and Miss Van Schuylers
c Tim Allerton
d 5: Linnet, Louise, Mrs Otterbourne, Jacqueline,
Simon
e Mr Fergusons fine underwear and handkerchiefs
and Tims pieces of religious art.
f 3: the first was aimed at nobody, perhaps at a table;
the second was aimed at Simons leg and the third
at Linnets head.
12 a X
b Louise
c Tim
d Mr Fleetwood
e Ferguson may be accepted as an answer
f Tim and Joanne
g Simon and Jackie
h Tim, Jackie

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Progress test key

1 a pearls b engaged c pyramids d honeymoon
e land agent
2 a 7 b 3 c 3 d 3 e 7
3 a poor, little, boring
b close
c uncomfortable
d bad
e deeply, pleasantly
f heavily
4 a Pennington
b Linnet
c Cornelia
d Dr Bessner
e Mrs Allerton
f Joanna
g Jacqueline
h Doyle
i Linnet
5 a name > letter
b table > sofa
c captain > waiter
d mother > father
e marriage > engagement
6 a Louise; blackmail
b Simon; insistence
c Tim; rosary
d Jackie; Rosalie; scandal

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