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Which characters go through profound transformations?
Charles Darnay and Lucy
Monsieur and Madame Defarge
Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher
Doctor Manette and Sydney Carton
What helps explain Madame Defarge’s vengefulness and bloodlust?
Her hero is Lady Macbeth
Her need to prove that she’s a good revolutionary
Her ambition to rule
Her family’s suffering at the hands of oppression
What characterizes Lucie?
Love, purity, compassion, devotion
Passion, drama, bold actions
sensitivity, indecision, timidity
Anger, self-righteousness, defensiveness
Which character can be interpreted as being redeemed by actions?
Sydney Carton
Monsieur Defarge
Mr. Lorry
Jerry Stryver
Which characters have been singled out by critics as being too flat?
Lucie and Charles Darnay
Lucy’s daughter and Roger Cly
Jerry Cruncher and Mr. Lorry
Sydney Carton and Doctor Manette
Who is Miss Pross’s brother, whose real name is Solomon, and a British spy?
Monsieur Defarge
Roger Cly
John Barsad
Mr. Lorry
What is Charles Darnay’s real last name?
Marquis
Defarge
Evremonde
Gabelle
Whose side occupation is as a “Resurrection-Man”?
Charles Darnay
Sydney Carton
Jerry Cruncher
Doctor Manette
What saves Sydney Carton from his self-proclaimed wasted life?
His love for Lucy
What did Monsieur Defarge do before he was a wine shop owner and revolutionary?
He was Doctor Manette’s servant.
He was a shoe maker.
He was a wood-sawyer.
Nothing, he’s actually an aristocrat.
What does Carton’s sacrifice suggest about France’s fate?
That its violence may finally give way to a better society
That the revolutionaries must be overthrown before the count
That France is doomed
That all will be well
What aspect of the revolution does the novel criticize?
The way money was redistributed
That the peasants are not vicious enough
The way the peasants overthrow cruelty with cruelty
That the British were not allowed to help restructure French
Which one of these is not “a double” in the narrative?
Monsieur Defarge and Doctor Manette
Lucy and Madame Defarge
Carton and Darnay
England and France
To whom is Carton often compared because of his sacrifice?
Job
Ghandi
The Buddha
Christ
What does the broken wine cask symbolize?
The purity of the revolutionary dream
Hunger and a bloodthirsty desire for change
The inability to be washed free of sin
Failings of the transport and agricultural ministries
Why is Charles Darnay acquitted at his English trial?
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