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And Then There Were None Test Corrections:
Circle the question numbers that you got wrong on the test.
You may add 1 point back to your test for every correct and complete answer
Due:___________________________
General Macarthur
Justice Wargrave
Emily Brent
Vera Claythorne
Philip Lombard
Mr. Blore
Dr. Armstrong
Mrs. Rogers
Anthony Marston
Hugo Hamilton
Identify the characters who said the following quotes. Then use evidence from the text to
support your answer(not direct quotes but paraphrased information about the character
that proves they would say something like that).
1. “I remember a text that hung in my nursery as a child: ‘Be sure thy sin will find thee out.’”
2. “Must have been a couple of kids I ran over near Cambridge. Beastly bad luck.”
3. “Self-preservation’s a man’s first duty…I left them to die.”
4. “I’ve known a murderess – known her, I tell you. And what’s more I was crazy about her.”
5. “I killed her alright. Poor devil – elderly woman – simple job if I’d been sober.”
6. “Cat’s out of the bag, it seems. I suppose I better admit that my name isn’t Davis.”
Identify which character was described as each of the following animals. Give an
explanation of WHY that character would be described that way.
7. Tortoise
8. Wolf
9. “A bird that has dashed its head against glass”
Multiple Choice: Give the correct answer and use a quote or paraphrased information to
prove that it is correct.
10. Wargrave planned the order of his victims beginning with those
a. who were physically weakest
Explanation of correct answer:
b. who were mentally weakest
c. whose guilt was the lightest
d. who were the most cold-blooded murderers
11. Which of the following is NOT one of Wargrave’s motives for committing murder?
*What is a MOTIVE?______________________________
a. He was told that he was ill and going to die.
Explanation of correct answer:
b. He purchased Indian Island.
c. He wanted to punish people guilty of crimes that
were impossible to prove.
d. He always had a fascination with death and murder.
Elements of Fiction in And Then There Were None
 The correct answer is given below.
 Give a definition of the term.
 Give an explanation of WHY that quote is an example of that term.
12. “The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot
taken…The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.”
THEME: definition:
explanation:
13. “In the center of the round table, on a circular glass stand, were some little china figures.”
SYMBOLISM: definition:
explanation:
14. “Six people, all outwardly self-possessed and normal. And within? Thoughts that ran round in a
circle like squirrels in a cage…
‘What next? What next? Who? Which?’
‘Would it work? I wonder…’
‘Religious mania, that’s the ticket…’
‘It’s crazy – everything’s crazy. I’m going crazy…’”
3rd Person Omniscient POV:
definition:
explanation:
15. “At the wheel sat a young man, his hair blown back by the wind. In the blaze of the evening light
he looked, not like a man, but a young God, a Hero God out of some Northern Saga.”
CHARACTERIZATION: definition:
explanation: