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A TALE OF TWO CITIES

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  • Why does Darnay return to France in 1792?
    To visit a gravesite
    To expose the revolutionaries
    To turn in Defarge
    To help his family’s steward, who is in prison for helping D
  • Why does the Doctor keep himself busy by making shoes after Lucie and Darnay get married?
    He discovers that Darnay is a traitor.
    He sees that Darnay has no shoes.
    He realizes that Darnay is the son of the man who sent him t
    He learns that Darnay is a revolutionary.
  • What aspect of the revolution does the novel criticize?
    That the British were not allowed to help restructure French
    The way money was redistributed
    That the peasants are not vicious enough
    The way the peasants overthrow cruelty with cruelty
  • 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.”
    Madame Defarge
    Sydney Carton
    Lucie Manette
    Doctor Manette
  • What saves Sydney Carton from his self-proclaimed wasted life?
    His love for Lucy
  • Whose side occupation is as a “Resurrection-Man”?
    Doctor Manette
    Sydney Carton
    Charles Darnay
    Jerry Cruncher
  • What did Monsieur Defarge do before he was a wine shop owner and revolutionary?
    He was a wood-sawyer.
    He was Doctor Manette’s servant.
    He was a shoe maker.
    Nothing, he’s actually an aristocrat.
  • What is Madame Defarge knitting?
    a register of people who will be condemned to die after the Revolution
  • During the day Jerry Cruncher is a porter for Tellson’s Bank. What is his occupation at night?
    grave robber
  • What does the broken wine cask symbolize?
    Failings of the transport and agricultural ministries
    The purity of the revolutionary dream
    The inability to be washed free of sin
    Hunger and a bloodthirsty desire for change
  • What characterizes Lucie?
    Love, purity, compassion, devotion
    sensitivity, indecision, timidity
    Anger, self-righteousness, defensiveness
    Passion, drama, bold actions
  • Which character can be interpreted as being redeemed by actions?
    Mr. Lorry
    Monsieur Defarge
    Jerry Stryver
    Sydney Carton
  • How does Madame Defarge die?
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  • Who kills the Marquis d'Evremonde?
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  • Why does Charles Darnay return to France after his marriage?
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  • What helps explain Madame Defarge’s vengefulness and bloodlust?
    Her hero is Lady Macbeth
    Her family’s suffering at the hands of oppression
    Her need to prove that she’s a good revolutionary
    Her ambition to rule
  • What is Charles Darnay’s real last name?
    Evremonde
    Marquis
    Defarge
    Gabelle
  • To whom is Carton often compared because of his sacrifice?
    Christ
    Ghandi
    The Buddha
    Job
  • What does Carton’s sacrifice suggest about France’s fate?
    That France is doomed
    That its violence may finally give way to a better society
    That the revolutionaries must be overthrown before the count
    That all will be well
  • Which characters go through profound transformations?
    Doctor Manette and Sydney Carton
    Charles Darnay and Lucy
    Monsieur and Madame Defarge
    Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher
  • Why does Dickens use the phrase “recalled to life” in reference to Doctor Manette?
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  • What three people denounce Darnay when the revolutionaries arrest him for a second time in France?
    Monsieur Defarge, Doctor Manette, and the Marquis
    Monsieur and Madame Defarge and Doctor Manette
    Madame Degarge, Jarvis Lorry, and Roger Cly
  • Which one of these is not “a double” in the narrative?
    Carton and Darnay
    Lucy and Madame Defarge
    Monsieur Defarge and Doctor Manette
    England and France
  • 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.
  • Who is Miss Pross’s brother, whose real name is Solomon, and a British spy?
    Monsieur Defarge
    Roger Cly
    Mr. Lorry
    John Barsad
  • Which characters have been singled out by critics as being too flat?
    Lucie and Charles Darnay
    Jerry Cruncher and Mr. Lorry
    Lucy’s daughter and Roger Cly
    Sydney Carton and Doctor Manette
  • 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.”
    Sydney Carton
    Lucie Manette
    Madame Defarge
    Doctor Manette
  • Why is Charles Darnay acquitted at his English trial?
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  • 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.”
    Doctor Manette
    Lucie Manette
    Madame Defarge
    Sydney Carton
  • Why was Dr. Manette imprisoned?
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