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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 family’s suffering at the hands of oppression
Her hero is Lady Macbeth
What characterizes Lucie?
Love, purity, compassion, devotion
Anger, self-righteousness, defensiveness
sensitivity, indecision, timidity
Passion, drama, bold actions
Which character can be interpreted as being redeemed by actions?
Monsieur Defarge
Sydney Carton
Mr. Lorry
Jerry Stryver
Which characters have been singled out by critics as being too flat?
Lucy’s daughter and Roger Cly
Sydney Carton and Doctor Manette
Lucie and Charles Darnay
Jerry Cruncher and Mr. Lorry
Who is Miss Pross’s brother, whose real name is Solomon, and a British spy?
Monsieur Defarge
Mr. Lorry
John Barsad
Roger Cly
What is Charles Darnay’s real last name?
Marquis
Defarge
Evremonde
Gabelle
Whose side occupation is as a “Resurrection-Man”?
Jerry Cruncher
Doctor Manette
Sydney Carton
Charles Darnay
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?
Nothing, he’s actually an aristocrat.
He was a wood-sawyer.
He was Doctor Manette’s servant.
He was a shoe maker.
What does Carton’s sacrifice suggest about France’s fate?
That the revolutionaries must be overthrown before the count
That its violence may finally give way to a better society
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
Carton and Darnay
Lucy and Madame Defarge
England and France
To whom is Carton often compared because of his sacrifice?
Ghandi
Christ
The Buddha
Job
What does the broken wine cask symbolize?
Hunger and a bloodthirsty desire for change
Failings of the transport and agricultural ministries
The purity of the revolutionary dream
The inability to be washed free of sin
Why is Charles Darnay acquitted at his English trial?
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