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"Curtain: Poirot's Last Case" returns to the house where he was first introduced to readers in "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" and is reunited with his friend Hastings.
2 Curtain quizzes and 25 Curtain trivia questions.
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  "Curtain"    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
Let's return to Styles Court with Captain Hastings and Hercule Poirot and "Ring down the curtain" on their final case. NOTE: The identity of X is not revealed in this quiz.
Average, 15 Qns, LindaC007, Oct 05 05
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  Curtain: Poirot's Last Case   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Hercule Poirot's last adventure took place at Styles, the same place where it had all started. Spoilers ahead!
Average, 10 Qns, sauterelle, Jun 05 08
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Curtain Trivia Questions

1. Who's described as "a very good [bridge] player, though a rather unpleasant to play with"?

From Quiz
Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

Answer: Mrs Luttrell

Mrs Luttrell blames her husband for being a poor bridge player, which makes him play even worse.

2. Who now owns Styles Court?

From Quiz "Curtain"

Answer: Colonel and Mrs. Luttrell

"Curtain" (1975) is Agatha Christie's final Hercule Poirot mystery. It is fitting that it all ends where it began, Styles Court. As the story begins, it is a much older Hastings that is making the journey back to Styles. Yet, his mental state is much the same as that of the young, wounded soldier who made this journey in 1916. His future is again uncertain. Hastings is unsettled, not by the uncertainty of war, but by the death of his beloved "Cinderella". Life at Styles Court is very different now. It has passed out of the hands of the Cavendish family and has been turned into a guesthouse run by Colonel and Mrs. Daisy Luttrell.

3. What's Miss Cole's real name?

From Quiz Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

Answer: Elizabeth Litchfield

Her elder sister Margaret had killed her father. Elizabeth decided to use a false identity afterwards.

4. How did Hastings want to poison Major Allerton?

From Quiz Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

Answer: Eight Slumberyl tablets in his whisky

Hastings was influenced by X. He suspected his daughter Judith of being in love with Major Allerton. Poirot prevented the murder by dropping sleeping tablets in Hastings' cup of chocolate.

5. How does Poirot explain to Hastings the absence of Georges, Poirot's faithful valet?

From Quiz "Curtain"

Answer: Georges has returned home because his father is ill

Poirot explains to Hastings that his faithful Georges has left and retuned home to care for his sick father. Curtiss is now taking care of Poirot.

6. What's untrue about Boyd Carrington?

From Quiz Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

Answer: He had an excellent memory

In chapter eight Poirot described him as a "windbag" and a "stuffed shirt". "His memory is so bad that he tells back to you the story that you have told to him."

7. Only two people possessed a key to the lab: Dr Franklin and who else?

From Quiz Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

Answer: Judith Hastings

Mrs Franklin and Nurse Craven had to borrow Dr Franklin's key to enter the lab.

8. Who is always running around carrying a pair of field glasses and bird watching?

From Quiz "Curtain"

Answer: Stephen Norton

The first three people Hastings meets upon arriving at Styles Court are Colonel and Mrs. Luttrell and Stephen Norton. Norton is carrying a pair of field glasses and tells Hastings that he is going bird watching. Birds are not the only things that Norton spied through his field glasses, is it?

9. Which action indirectly caused Mrs Franklin's death?

From Quiz Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

Answer: Captain Hastings swinging round the bookcase-table

Mrs Franklin wanted to kill her husband by putting physostigmine in his coffee. After Hastings had swung round the bookcase-table with the coffee cups on it Mrs Franklin accidentally drank the poisoned cup herself.

10. What is Judith Hastings, the daughter of Captain Hastings, doing at Styles Court?

From Quiz "Curtain"

Answer: She is Dr. Franklin's secretary

Judith is the secretary of Dr. Franklin, a specialist in tropical disease research. She is a very pretty girl, very well-educated, and very highly intelligent. Judith is very young, and she has no patience with those she considers to be useless. Of all his four children, Judith is the one Hastings says he loved most but understood the least. Judith loved her father, but she could (and did) shrivel poor, well-meaning Hastings with her sharp tongue, if she thought he was interfering in her business.

11. What's the real reason why Poirot replaced his valet George with Curtiss?

From Quiz Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

Answer: George knew that Poirot could still walk

Poirot pretended to be an invalid, so nobody suspected it was he that Hastings saw limping in Norton's dressing gown.

12. Where was Norton shot?

From Quiz Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

Answer: Middle of the forehead

This was a clue that it wasn't suicide, but that Norton was shot by Poirot, who had a strong preference for symmetry.

13. Which character in "Othello" does Poirot compare Norton to?

From Quiz Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

Answer: Iago

Norton was X. Just like Iago he never killed anyone himself, but he instigated other people to kill.

14. How does Barbara Franklin die?

From Quiz "Curtain"

Answer: She drank a cup of poisoned coffee meant for someone else

Barbara Franklin died of phyostigmine poisoning from drinking a cup of coffee into which alkaloids derived from calabar beans had been added. (You can tell that Agatha Christie worked as a pharmacy dispenser in both WWI and WWII, by her great love of poisons, both exotic and mundane). Hastings unknowingly mixed up the cups and handed her the fatal brew. Surely justice was served, as it was Mrs. Franklin who meant the poisonous brew for someone else!

15. How many people did the mysterious X kill with his own hands?

From Quiz Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

Answer: None

The murders were committed by someone under Norton's influence. Norton would never have been convicted because technically he didn't commit any murder himself.

16. What is the plan that Hastings came up with for murdering Major Allerton?

From Quiz "Curtain"

Answer: Overdose of sleeping pills in Allerton's drink

Poor Hastings was manipulated by X into believing that Allerton, a womanizer and complete rotter, was going to seduce Judith. Being an old fashioned, protective father, Hastings could see no way out--except murder. He planned to serve Allerton up a fatal nightcap laced with Allerton's own potent sleeping pills. Luckily for both Allerton and Hastings, X's plot was foiled.

17. At the inquest of Barbara Franklin, who did Hercule Poirot say he saw coming out of Dr. Franklin's laboratory carrying a small bottle?

From Quiz "Curtain"

Answer: Barbara Franklin

Poirot testified that he saw Barbara Franklin leaving Dr. Franklin's laboratory with a small bottle in her hand. His testimony supported the theory of suicide, which was exactly what Poirot wanted. He did not want Judith or Dr. Franklin to be suspected of murdering her.

18. Who does Hastings suggest that Poirot recruit to help them in dealing with X?

From Quiz "Curtain"

Answer: Sir William Boyd Carrington

Hercule Poirot is absolutely disdainful of Hastings' suggestion. To Hastings, Sir William Boyd Carrington was the epitome of an Englishman of the old school. Boyd Carrington was a fine shot, a big game hunter, and a former governor in India. Poirot reminds Hastings that Boyd Carrington is forgetful. Boyd Carrington had repeated one of Poirot's stories and said that the Chef de la Surete in Paris had told it to him.

19. In the postscript at the end of "Curtain", who does Poirot ask Hastings to look up and tell all about X?

From Quiz "Curtain"

Answer: Elizabeth Cole

In a letter written to Hastings, Poirot reveals the identity of X. He also reveals that he is the one who stopped Hastings from murdering Allerton and thus prevented Hastings from becoming one of X's murderers. X did not committ murder--but X knew exactly what buttons to push and exactly how to play on people's emotions. He caused murder to happen. Why did X do these despiciable things that led to murder? X was a sadist who deprived pleasure from the pain of others. X gloried in the power of life and death. Poirot asked Hastings to look up Miss Elizabeth Cole (Litchfield) and tell her all about X. Her father had been murdered by someone dear to her--manipulated by X, and she had suffered for many years because of this tragedy. Did Hastings find love again? We are really never told, but I think so.

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