White
Clear
What color was the arsenic?
Penicillin
Soup
Arsenic
Powdered sugar
What stuff was Matilde so anxious to have before luncheon?
The doctor
Muro
Elettra
Who had written on the little slip of paper which Elettra put into her shabby coat pocket?
After the luncheon
Before the luncheon
While the luncheon
When was Matilde hoping to receive more arsenic from the chemist?
No
Not clear
Yes
Did Elettra take arsenic in the past?
Matilde
Elettra's husband
Elettra
Who works as an under-steward?
Preparation of arsenic
Penicillin
Muro
Sandwiches for luncheon
Arsenic
What is the recipe for?
English
Hieroglyphics and abbreviated Latin words
Predator
What did the writing of the prescription look like?
Tasks
Receipt
Preparation notes
Prescription
What word does the author use as a synonym for a recipe?
The white powder
Cocaine
Arsenic
What was "White but coarser than medicine"?
Elettra's
Elettra
Matilde's
Muro
Matilde
Whose husband was an under-steward?
Nothing
She immediately rinsed her mouth with water, tied up the package again, shut the drawer, and put the key into her pocket
Rinsed her mouth with water
After touching the tip of her tongue to the arsenic, what did Matilde do?
Matilde
Countess Macomer
Elettra
Who opened one of the little folded papers?
Matilde
Muro
Elettra
Who tasted the white powder from the folded papers and the package?
Second medicine
The chemist
20 doses of arsenic
Medicine
Arsenic
What did the Countess need?
Matilde
Muro
Elettra
Who could read and write fairly well?
White and coarser than the medicine
Fine white powder
Clear
What did the arsenic look like?
Coarse paper
Little folded paper
A little slip of paper
What type of paper was the second medicine wrapped?
The white fine powder
The coarse powder
Penicillin
Muro
Arsenic
What is the first substance Matilde tastes?
Matilde
Elettra
The medicine
Who rinsed her mouth?
In the kitchen
In the lab
In a drawer
The cabinet
Where were the little folded papers and the package done up in coarse paper kept?
Elettra stuck the little slip of paper, on which the recipe was written, into her shabby pocket-book without looking at it. She could read and write fairly well, and had been used to helping her husband the under-steward with his accounts at Muro, but even if she had looked at the recipe she would have understood nothing of the doctor's hieroglyphics and abbreviated Latin words. The prescription was for a preparation of arsenic, which Matilde had formerly taken for some time. The chemist would not make any difficulty about preparing twenty doses of it for the Countess Macomer, though the whole quantity of arsenic contained in so many would probably be sufficient to kill one not accustomed to the medicine, if taken all at once. But though Matilde was so anxious to have the stuff before luncheon, she had a number of doses of it put away in a drawer, which she took out and counted, after Elettra had gone. She opened one of the little folded papers and looked at the fine white powder it contained, took a little on the end of her finger and tasted it. Then, from the same drawer, she took a package done up in coarser paper, and opened it likewise, looked at it, smelt it, and touched it with the tip of her tongue very cautiously indeed. It was white, too, but coarser than the medicine. She was very careful in tasting it, and she immediately rinsed her mouth with water, before she tied up the package again, shut the drawer, and put the key into her pocket. 