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