And Then There Were None Book Quiz
Eight multiple-choice questions on Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None (1939) — plot, characters and the moments everyone quotes. Two minutes, instant score, every answer explained below. For the full mixed-classics version, take the original book quiz — 15 questions across the whole canon.
All 8 questions and answers
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- Where is the story set? — A island mansion off the Devon coast. Soldier Island: cut off from the mainland by weather and boat-sabotage, the classic locked room blown up to the size of an estate.
- Who invited the ten guests? — An 'Mr. and Mrs. Owen' who turn out not to exist. Each invitation comes from a slightly different fictional benefactor — U.N. Owen, 'unknown' — and none of the guests checked hard enough.
- What marks each death? — A soldier-boy figurine disappears from the dining-room table. Ten little china soldiers sit on the table; each corpse costs one, tracking the rhyme verse by verse.
- Which guest dies first? — Anthony Marstone, poisoned in his whiskey. The young racer chokes mid-toast on cyanide — the first verse, 'choked his little self', and the moment the party realizes the rhyme is a schedule.
- What does the gramophone record accuse the guests of? — Murders the law could never touch. Each guest caused a death that no court could reach: a drunk driver, a starved pensioner, a patient left on the table, a child drowned.
- Who is the killer? — Judge Wargrave, who faked his own death mid-story. The judge stages his murder with the doctor's help, then kills his accomplice — the greatest single trick in the golden age of mystery.
- What happens to Vera Claythorne at the end? — She hangs herself in her bedroom. Alone with the last verse and a noose the house prepared, her guilt finishes the job the killer started — 'peace' is the last thing she thinks.
- How does the outside world learn the truth? — Wargrave's confession, tossed to sea in a bottle. The coda is the murderer's letter, written to a fisherman-who-caught-nothing, gleefully explaining the mechanism — the reader gets to check the lock after the door closed.
About And Then There Were None
Ten strangers are invited to an island off the Devon coast, and a gramophone record accuses each of them of murder. Then they start dying, one by one, exactly as the nursery rhyme in their bedrooms promises. Christie called it her most difficult book to write; it outsold everything else she wrote, and no one has matched the mechanism since. The novel runs about 54,000 words (roughly 264 pages in a standard paperback) — about 3 hours and 47 minutes of reading at an average pace. Before you commit, see the full breakdown in how long it takes to read And Then There Were None or calculate reading time for any other book.
Easy — the most purely addictive Christie, written in clean functional prose with short chapters that end on hooks. The locked-island puzzle is the whole meal, and it does not cheat. If you get 6 or more of the eight questions right, the book clearly stuck.
What this quiz covers
Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None sits in our gothic & horror shelf, and the eight questions follow the book the way a reader experiences it: how the story opens, the turn in the middle, the characters who carry it, and the ending people still argue about. You will not be asked for page numbers or publication trivia — but three or four questions are built to separate people who read the book from people who read a summary. If a question stumps you, that gap is your reading list talking.
Fair warning for the ambitious: readers who clear this quiz often move straight to the reading-time breakdown for And Then There Were None to plan the reread, then test the rest of their shelf against the mixed classic literature quiz.
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Frequently asked questions
How many questions are in the And Then There Were None quiz?
Eight multiple-choice questions covering Agatha Christie's plot, characters and most famous moments. The quiz takes about two minutes and your score is instant.
Is the And Then There Were None book quiz free?
Yes — no signup, no email, nothing to install. Answer the eight questions and get your score immediately.
What score should I aim for?
8/8 means you know the book cold; 6+ is a solid score. Below 4, the book is calling you back for a reread.
Is the And Then There Were None quiz hard?
Easy — the most purely addictive Christie, written in clean functional prose with short chapters that end on hooks. The locked-island puzzle is the whole meal, and it does not cheat. The questions themselves stick to famous, load-bearing moments — the scenes and lines the book is remembered for — so a genuine read usually scores 6+.
How long is the And Then There Were None reading itself?
About 54,000 words — roughly 264 pages, or about 3 hours and 47 minutes at an average pace. The full pace breakdown is in how long it takes to read And Then There Were None. It runs 16 chapters, averaging 3,375 words each; see the book-count guide for its full structure.