Who is the novel’s main character?
Giulia Tofana
Maria Conti
Carmela Tofana
Laura Costa
Who is Carmela Tofana’s mother?
Giulia
Maria
Violetta
Sophia
Where is Giulia Tofana’s shop located?
Venice
Naples
Milan
Rome
Who are Giulia Tofana’s two assistants?
Maria and Violetta
Violetta and Benicio
Maria and Laura
Laura and Violetta
What does Violetta Raso want from the apothecary at the beginning of the novel?
Healing potion
A love potion
A polyjuice potion
A sleeping potion
How old was Carmela when her mother let her begin training to be an apothecary?
Nineteen
Eighteen
Seventeen
Sixteen
When Carmela was six or seven, what word did some of her friends use when referring to her mother?
Hag
Witch
Crone
Necroromancer
What was referred to as “hope in a bottle.”
A healing potion
A love potion
A polyjuice potion
A death potion
What human ingredient was used in the love potion?
Sweat
Tears
Blood
Urine
Who, after obtaining a love potion, needed help from the apothecary in ending her pregnancy?
Signora Moretti
Costanza
Violetta
Maria
“Giving women a choice over what happens in their bodies” was how what character described her work?
Giulia
Laura
Carmela
Maria
What did Father Piero bring to Gulia’s shop?
Arsenic
Belladonna
Polonium
Hemlock
Father Piero supplied Giulia with arsenic as he owed her a debt. What was this debt?
He was responsible for the death of Giulia’s father
He was the priest who refused sanctuary to her mother
He was the priest who impregnated Violetta
He was responsible for starting the rumor that Giulia was a witch
Who comes almost daily to the shop with an ache, a pain, a rash, or a bruise?
Genevieve Laurent
Benicio
Costanza
Signora Moretti
Who murdered Giulia’s father?
Costanza, Giulia’s mother
Maria
Giulia
Father Piero
What is the name of the apothecary’s remedy of last resort for husbands who are just as deadly as any disease?
Hibiscus sabdariffa
Valeriana officinalis
Calendula officinalis
Aqua Tofana
How many drops of Aqua Tofana does it take to kill a man without a trace?
6
4
8
2
Who was the first person given Aqua Tofana?
Signora Moretti’s husband
Maria’s husband
Giulia’s husband
Costanza’s husband
Where, on the Church of San Girolamo property, does Carmela hide the arsenic?
Under the altar
In the priest hole
In the confessional booth
In a ramshackle shed
Who arrives at the apothecary after having her upper face slashed by her husband?
Maria
Laura
Signora Moretti
Nina Santori di Alonso
Who dispensed Aqua Tofana to Signora Moretti?
Carmela
Maria
Laura
Giulia
What two words did Signora Moretti’s husband write on the apothecary’s windows?
She-devils
Battleaxe bitches
Witch whores
Crazy crones
Who is arrested for her husband’s death?
Maria
Signora Moretti
Nina Santori di Alonso
Signora Fontina
What was Signora Moretti’s punishment for poisoning her husband?
Life imprisonment
Twenty years hard labor
Sent to live out her days in a penal colony
Death
When Signora Moretti is arrested for her husband’s death, who does she name as the source of the poison?
Laura
Maria
Carmela
Giulia
When Giulia leaves after being named by Signora Moretti, who joins Carmela, Laura and Maria at the apothecary?
Virginia
Violetta
Father Piero
Carla
What injury does Maria sustain after being pushed by Carla, Violette’s step-mother?
Broken arm
Broken leg
Dislocated shoulder
Brain bleed
Who brings letters from Giulia to Carmela?
Laura
Signora Fontina
Father Piero
Nina Santori di Alonso