Share A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Save to Folder
Which characters go through profound transformations?
Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher
Charles Darnay and Lucy
Doctor Manette and Sydney Carton
Monsieur and Madame Defarge
What helps explain Madame Defarge’s vengefulness and bloodlust?
Her need to prove that she’s a good revolutionary
Her hero is Lady Macbeth
Her ambition to rule
Her family’s suffering at the hands of oppression
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?
Jerry Stryver
Mr. Lorry
Monsieur Defarge
Sydney Carton
Which characters have been singled out by critics as being too flat?
Lucy’s daughter and Roger Cly
Lucie and Charles Darnay
Sydney Carton and Doctor Manette
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?
Defarge
Evremonde
Gabelle
Marquis
Whose side occupation is as a “Resurrection-Man”?
Doctor Manette
Sydney Carton
Jerry Cruncher
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 Doctor Manette’s servant.
He was a wood-sawyer.
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 its violence may finally give way to a better society
That the revolutionaries must be overthrown before the count
What aspect of the revolution does the novel criticize?
The way the peasants overthrow cruelty with cruelty
That the peasants are not vicious enough
That the British were not allowed to help restructure French
The way money was redistributed
Which one of these is not “a double” in the narrative?
Monsieur Defarge and Doctor Manette
England and France
Carton and Darnay
Lucy and Madame Defarge
To whom is Carton often compared because of his sacrifice?
The Buddha
Christ
Ghandi
Job
What does the broken wine cask symbolize?
The purity of the revolutionary dream
Failings of the transport and agricultural ministries
Hunger and a bloodthirsty desire for change
The inability to be washed free of sin
Why is Charles Darnay acquitted at his English trial?
...
