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A TALE OF TWO CITIES

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  • Who is Miss Pross’s brother, whose real name is Solomon, and a British spy?
    Mr. Lorry
    Monsieur Defarge
    John Barsad
    Roger Cly
  • Which character can be interpreted as being redeemed by actions?
    Jerry Stryver
    Mr. Lorry
    Monsieur Defarge
    Sydney Carton
  • Who said the following: “ When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained—not shown, yet always ready.”
    Sydney Carton
    Lucie Manette
    Doctor Manette
    Madame Defarge
  • What does Carton’s sacrifice suggest about France’s fate?
    That the revolutionaries must be overthrown before the count
    That France is doomed
    That its violence may finally give way to a better society
    That all will be well
  • 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
  • What saves Sydney Carton from his self-proclaimed wasted life?
    His love for Lucy
  • What characterizes Lucie?
    Love, purity, compassion, devotion
    Anger, self-righteousness, defensiveness
    sensitivity, indecision, timidity
    Passion, drama, bold actions
  • Why does the Doctor keep himself busy by making shoes after Lucie and Darnay get married?
    He sees that Darnay has no shoes.
    He discovers that Darnay is a traitor.
    He realizes that Darnay is the son of the man who sent him t
    He learns that Darnay is a revolutionary.
  • Who kills the Marquis d'Evremonde?
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  • Whose side occupation is as a “Resurrection-Man”?
    Doctor Manette
    Jerry Cruncher
    Sydney Carton
    Charles Darnay
  • During the day Jerry Cruncher is a porter for Tellson’s Bank. What is his occupation at night?
    grave robber
  • What is Madame Defarge knitting?
    a register of people who will be condemned to die after the Revolution
  • Why does Charles Darnay return to France after his marriage?
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  • Why does Darnay return to France in 1792?
    To expose the revolutionaries
    To help his family’s steward, who is in prison for helping D
    To visit a gravesite
    To turn in Defarge
  • Why does Dickens use the phrase “recalled to life” in reference to Doctor Manette?
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  • What aspect of the revolution does the novel criticize?
    That the British were not allowed to help restructure French
    That the peasants are not vicious enough
    The way money was redistributed
    The way the peasants overthrow cruelty with cruelty
  • How does Madame Defarge die?
    ...
  • What is Charles Darnay’s real last name?
    Marquis
    Gabelle
    Evremonde
    Defarge
  • Which characters go through profound transformations?
    Doctor Manette and Sydney Carton
    Monsieur and Madame Defarge
    Charles Darnay and Lucy
    Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher
  • Who said the following: “I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by-and-by into our lives.”
    Lucie Manette
    Madame Defarge
    Sydney Carton
    Doctor Manette
  • To whom is Carton often compared because of his sacrifice?
    The Buddha
    Christ
    Ghandi
    Job
  • ow does Carton get Darnay out of prison?
    He changes clothes with Darnay, drugs him, and arranges for the guards to take Darnay out of the prison in his place.
  • Which characters have been singled out by critics as being too flat?
    Sydney Carton and Doctor Manette
    Lucy’s daughter and Roger Cly
    Jerry Cruncher and Mr. Lorry
    Lucie and Charles Darnay
  • What helps explain Madame Defarge’s vengefulness and bloodlust?
    Her ambition to rule
    Her hero is Lady Macbeth
    Her family’s suffering at the hands of oppression
    Her need to prove that she’s a good revolutionary
  • Why was Dr. Manette imprisoned?
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  • 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 shoe maker.
    He was a wood-sawyer.
  • Who said the following: “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
    Madame Defarge
    Lucie Manette
    Doctor Manette
    Sydney Carton
  • What three people denounce Darnay when the revolutionaries arrest him for a second time in France?
    Monsieur and Madame Defarge and Doctor Manette
    Madame Degarge, Jarvis Lorry, and Roger Cly
    Monsieur Defarge, Doctor Manette, and the Marquis
  • Which one of these is not “a double” in the narrative?
    England and France
    Lucy and Madame Defarge
    Carton and Darnay
    Monsieur Defarge and Doctor Manette
  • Why is Charles Darnay acquitted at his English trial?
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