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Quiz about A Murder is Announced
Quiz about A Murder is Announced

20 Questions: A Murder is Announced Multiple Choice Quiz | Literature


One of Miss Marple's best; this also boasts a fascinating cast of characters and an affectionate picture of a post WWII English village. Warning! The solution is revealed in this quiz!

A multiple-choice quiz by jouen58. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
jouen58
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
117,376
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
20
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
13 / 20
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1873
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Top 5% quiz!
Last 3 plays: Guest 90 (11/20), Guest 138 (8/20), Guest 86 (20/20).
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Question 1 of 20
1. In which publication does the murder announcement take place? Hint


Question 2 of 20
2. What is the name of Miss Blacklock's home, where the first and second murders take place? Hint


Question 3 of 20
3. What was Rudi Scherz's country of origin? Hint


Question 4 of 20
4. What was Mrs. Harmon's (the vicar's wife's) nickname, which everyone called her by? Hint


Question 5 of 20
5. Why was the central heating turned on the evening of the "murder game"? (The real reason, not the one Miss Blacklock gave.) Hint


Question 6 of 20
6. Why did Miss Blacklock always wear a choker of pearls? Hint


Question 7 of 20
7. Who owned the gun used to kill Rudi Scherz? Hint


Question 8 of 20
8. What did Myrna Harris (waitress at the Royal Spa Hotel who had dated Rudi) at first keep from Inspector Craddock? Hint


Question 9 of 20
9. Which flowers in the drawing room of Little Paddocks provided a clue to the mystery? Hint


Question 10 of 20
10. From whom did Inspector Craddock first hear about Pip and Emma? Hint


Question 11 of 20
11. What has Dora Bunner seen Patrick with that makes her suspect he might have had a hand in the holdup? Hint


Question 12 of 20
12. Mitzie, the Eastern European cook, hated the nickname "Delicious Death" that had been given to her famous cake. Who came up with this name? Hint


Question 13 of 20
13. How was Dora Bunner murdered? Hint


Question 14 of 20
14. What was Dora's favorite hymn, which Miss Blacklock wanted sung at her funeral? Hint


Question 15 of 20
15. Which of the following people does not appear in the story, although she is mentioned often and sends Miss Blacklock a letter? Hint


Question 16 of 20
16. To whom does Miss Blacklock offer to leave most of her fortune after her death? Hint


Question 17 of 20
17. What did Miss Murgatroyd realize when she and Miss Hinchcliff were re-enacting the night of the first murder? Hint


Question 18 of 20
18. Which member of the Harmon household showed Miss Marple how the lights had been put out before the holdup? Hint


Question 19 of 20
19. Leticia Blacklock was ultimately revealed to be the murderer.


Question 20 of 20
20. Bringing us back to where we started; in the Epilogue, what publication do the newly married Edmund and Phillipa decide not to have delivered to their home? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. In which publication does the murder announcement take place?

Answer: The Chipping Cleghorn Gazette

While all of these publications are read by one or more of the characters, only the Gazette (as it is known locally, although its full name is "The North Benham News and Chipping Cleghorn Gazette") carries the announcement. (The Daily Worker, read by Edmund Swettenham, would never advertise such bourgeois escapism.)
2. What is the name of Miss Blacklock's home, where the first and second murders take place?

Answer: Little Paddocks

Miss Blacklock and Dora Bunner live at Little Paddocks. Boulders is where Miss Hinchcliff and Miss Murgatroyd live, Chipping Cleghorn is the name of the village, and the vicarage is, of course, where the vicar (and his wife) live.
3. What was Rudi Scherz's country of origin?

Answer: Switzerland

Rudi Scherz met miss Blacklock in his native Switzerland, where he was an orderly at a clinic in Berne.
4. What was Mrs. Harmon's (the vicar's wife's) nickname, which everyone called her by?

Answer: Bunch

It is Bunch. Bunny is Dora Bunner's nickname; Belle is Mrs. Goedler's first name. Bundle is a character in the "Seven Dials Mystery".
5. Why was the central heating turned on the evening of the "murder game"? (The real reason, not the one Miss Blacklock gave.)

Answer: So there would be no light in the room

It was essential to the murderer's plans that there be no light in the room except the flashlight. A fire would have given off light, and it was too cold (in late October) for the room to be completely unheated; hence the central heating.
6. Why did Miss Blacklock always wear a choker of pearls?

Answer: To cover a scar on her neck.

The pearls, which were obviously fake and always looked incongruous, covered a scar from an operation for goiter years before (in Berne, which is where Rudi Scherz recognized her from).
7. Who owned the gun used to kill Rudi Scherz?

Answer: Colonel Easterbrook

Colonel Easterbrook's gun, of German make, was a war souvenir. It was stolen from his home and used to murder Rudi Scherz.
8. What did Myrna Harris (waitress at the Royal Spa Hotel who had dated Rudi) at first keep from Inspector Craddock?

Answer: That someone had paid Rudi to stage the fake "holdup".

Myrna confirmed Miss Marple's conviction that a petty thief like Rudi would not suddenly go off and stage a holdup unless someone else had put him up to it and offered him money. Unfortunately, he had not told her the person's identity.
9. Which flowers in the drawing room of Little Paddocks provided a clue to the mystery?

Answer: Violets

The violets had withered in their vase because the water had been poured on the frayed lamp wire, causing the blackout. This had left a burn on the tabletop, which Dora Bunner thought had been caused by someone carelessly leaving a cigarette on the table. Dora had also seen Miss Blacklock pick up the vase of violets; Miss Blacklock convinced her that she was mistaken, and that she had picked up the cigarette box instead.
10. From whom did Inspector Craddock first hear about Pip and Emma?

Answer: Miss Blacklock

In an interview after the first murder, Miss Blacklock tells the inspector about Sonia Goedler's twins, who will inherit Belle Goedler's money if Leticia Blacklock predeceases her.
11. What has Dora Bunner seen Patrick with that makes her suspect he might have had a hand in the holdup?

Answer: An oily cup and a feather.

Dora saw Patrick in the garden holding the feather and oily cup, which he had found, and suspected (incorrectly) that it was he who had oiled the door hinges.
12. Mitzie, the Eastern European cook, hated the nickname "Delicious Death" that had been given to her famous cake. Who came up with this name?

Answer: Patrick Simmons

The always irreverant Patrick gave the cake this sinister moniker.
13. How was Dora Bunner murdered?

Answer: Narcotic tablets

Dora died of narcotic poisoning after taking what she thought were aspirin from Miss Blacklock's nightstand; in fact the aspirin had been replaced with narcotic tablets.
14. What was Dora's favorite hymn, which Miss Blacklock wanted sung at her funeral?

Answer: Lead Kindly Light

Miss Blacklock breaks down to Miss Marple after making this request; Dora had been her oldest and dearest friend. If only she hadn't kept calling her Lotty.
15. Which of the following people does not appear in the story, although she is mentioned often and sends Miss Blacklock a letter?

Answer: Julia Simmons

Although she spends about the first three-quarters of the novel pretending to be Julia Simmons, Patrick's female compatriot at Little Paddocks is, in reality, Emma Stamfordis (daughter of Sonia Goedler). She is unmasked when the real Julia writes to Miss Blacklock from Perth.
16. To whom does Miss Blacklock offer to leave most of her fortune after her death?

Answer: Phillipa Haymes

Miss Blacklock informs Phillipa that her will leaves everything, with the exception of a legacy for Dora, to her. Miss Blacklock likes Phillipa, a widowed mother, and wants to help her and her son; she also convinces herself that this action will "legitimize" her obtaining the Goedler fortune by fraudulent means.
17. What did Miss Murgatroyd realize when she and Miss Hinchcliff were re-enacting the night of the first murder?

Answer: That Miss Blacklock hadn't been standing where the shots were fired.

Miss Murgatroyd's last words to Miss Hinchcliff, as the latter drove away, were "She wasn't there" (meaning Miss Blacklock hadn't been standing in front of the wall into which the shots had been fired). Alas, that three-word sentence got her strangled! Miss Marple later determines that she had emphasized the word "there" instead of the word "she"; it was a place she had in mind, not a person.

The place was the wall against which Miss Blacklock was supposed to have been standing when the shooting began.
18. Which member of the Harmon household showed Miss Marple how the lights had been put out before the holdup?

Answer: The cat

The Harmon's cat (Tiglath Pileser) had been gnawing on the lamp cord, exposing the bare wires. When Mrs. Harmon went to move the vase of flowers, the cat got in her way, causing her to spill water on the exposed wire, causing the lights to short out and making a burn mark on the table, similar to the "cigarette burn" on the table at Little Paddocks.
19. Leticia Blacklock was ultimately revealed to be the murderer.

Answer: False

The murderer was Charlotte Blacklock, not Leticia. Charlotte had assumed the identity of her sister Leticia, a junior partner of the late financier Randall Goedler. Leticia had died of pneumonia, shortly after they had learned that she would inherit the Goedler millions upon his widow's death. Charlotte, who had spent much of her life as a recluse because of her goiter, had her sister buried under her own name and moved to Chipping Cleghorn, waiting to inherit the money she felt she deserved after all her suffering. Only Dora had known her secret. Belle Goedler had admired Leticia's integrity and had described her as being "really good"; Miss Marple felt that Leticia, however tempted, would never have contemplated any kind of fraud.
20. Bringing us back to where we started; in the Epilogue, what publication do the newly married Edmund and Phillipa decide not to have delivered to their home?

Answer: The Chipping Cleghorn Gazette

After all that has happened since the "murder" announcement, Edmund and Phillipa decide they can do without the Gazette. We understand!
Source: Author jouen58

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