Question:
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CHAPTER XIX 

MAUD MAKES A MEMORANDUM 

My mother used to say to me: "Never expect to find brains in a pretty girl." Perhaps she said it because I was not a pretty girl and she wished to encourage me. In any event, that absurd notion of the ancients that when the fairies bestow the gift of beauty on a baby they withhold all other qualities has so often been disproved that we may well disregard it. 

Maud Stanton was a pretty girl--indeed, a beautiful girl--but she possessed brains as well as beauty and used her intellect to advantage more often than her quiet demeanor would indicate to others than her most intimate associates. From the first she had been impressed by the notion that there was something mysterious about A. Jones and that his romantic explanation of his former life and present position was intended to hide a truth that would embarrass him, were it fully known. Therefore she had secretly observed the young man, at such times as they were together, and had treasured every careless remark he had made--every admission or assertion--and made a note of it. The boy's arrest had startled her because it was so unexpected, and her first impulse was to doubt his innocence. Later, however, she had thoroughly reviewed the notes she had made and decided he was innocent. 

In the quiet of her own room, when she was supposed to be asleep, Maud got out her notebook and read therein again the review of all she had learned concerning A. Jones of Sangoa. 
1. Who was good looking?
2. Was she very good looking?
3. What did she have along with her looks?
4. Was the narrator also good looking?
5. Who did Maud think was keeping a secret?
6. What did she think it would to, if revealed?
7. What  did she do to try to uncover this secret?
8. What surprised her?
9. Did she initially think he might be guilty?
10. What did she decide subsequently?
11. Where was the man from?

Numbered answers:
1. Maud Stanton
2. yes
3. brains
4. no
5. A. Jones
6. embarrass him,
7. secretly observed him
8. The boy's arrest
9. yes
10. .he was innocent.
11. Sangoa.


Question:
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The word pharmacy is derived from its root word pharma which was a term used since the 15th–17th centuries. However, the original Greek roots from pharmakos imply sorcery or even poison. In addition to pharma responsibilities, the pharma offered general medical advice and a range of services that are now performed solely by other specialist practitioners, such as surgery and midwifery. The pharma (as it was referred to) often operated through a retail shop which, in addition to ingredients for medicines, sold tobacco and patent medicines. Often the place that did this was called an apothecary and several languages have this as the dominant term, though their practices are more akin to a modern pharmacy, in English the term apothecary would today be seen as outdated or only approproriate if herbal remedies were on offer to a large extent. The pharmas also used many other herbs not listed. The Greek word Pharmakeia (Greek: φαρμακεία) derives from pharmakon (φάρμακον), meaning "drug", "medicine" (or "poison").[n 1]
1. What does the term pharmakos come from?
2. Does it have positive connotations?
3. What does it mean?
4. What would be the Greek word for drug or medicine?
5. And what came from that word?
6. When was the term pharma first used?
7. Is that where the term pharmacy came from?
8. Did pharmas only distribute medicines?
9. What is something else they did?
10. What about for pregnant women?
11. Could you get tobacco at a pharma?
12. Were they stand alone enterprises?
13. What is a common name for these stores?
14. Is that only used in English?
15. What would you compare an apothecary to nowadays?
16. Is that still a descriptive definition?
17. What would make it so?
18. Did pharmas list all herbs they used?
19. Could I get a patent medicine at a pharma?
20. What about ingredients for other medicines?

Numbered answers:
1. Greek
2. no
3. sorcery or even poison
4. pharmakon
5. Pharmakeia
6. 15th century
7. yes
8. no
9. offered general medical advice
10. midwifery
11. yes
12. yes
13. an apothecary
14. no
15. pharmacy
16. no
17. if they sold herbal remedies
18. no
19. yes
20. yes


Question:
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CHAPTER XIII: THE FRENCH CONVOY 

A report having arrived at the camp of the Count of Cifuentes that the peasants around Saragossa had risen in insurrection, Jack thought that he should be doing more good by discovering the truth of the rumor, and by keeping the earl informed of the state of things in the enemy's rear, than by remaining with the count. He hesitated whether he should take his two orderlies with him, but as they were well mounted he decided that they should accompany him, as they would add to his authority, and would, in case of need, enable him the better to assume the position of an officer riding in advance of a considerable force. 

After a hearty adieu from the Count of Cifuentes, he started soon after daybreak. After riding for some hours, just as he reached the top of a rise, up which he had walked his horse, one of the orderlies, who were riding a few paces behind him, rode up. 

"I think, Captain Stilwell," he said, "I hear the sound of firing. Brown thinks he hears it too." 

Jack reined in his horse. 

"I hear nothing," he said, after a pause of a minute. 

"I don't hear it now, sir," the man said. "I think it came down on a puff of wind.. If you wait a minute or two I think you will hear it." 

Jack waited another two minutes, and then was about to resume his journey, when suddenly a faint sound came upon the wind. 
1. Who had started a conflict?
2. Near what area?
3. Who set off in order to send back information?
4. Who was he supposed to keep informed?
5. Who did he consider bringing?
6. How many?
7. What was one reason he decided to take them?
8. Were they good horsemen?
9. With their help, who could he impersonate if need be?
10. What time did he take off?
11. Who bid him a hefty goodbye?
12. How long did he travel?
13. Via what mode of transportation?
14. Who heard something first?
15. Did the other orderly hear it, also?
16. What did they think they heard?
17. Did Jack hear it, too?
18. How long did they pause before hearing it again?


Numbered answers:
1. the peasants
2. Saragossa
3. Jack
4. the earl
5. orderlies
6. two
7. to add to his authority
8. yes
9. an officer
10. soon after daybreak
11. the Count of Cifuentes
12. for some hours
13. horse
14. the man
15. yes
16. the sound of firing
17. no
18. two minutes