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?
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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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