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A TALE OF TWO CITIES

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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.”
    Lucie Manette
    Madame Defarge
    Sydney Carton
    Doctor Manette
  • What does the broken wine cask symbolize?
    The inability to be washed free of sin
    Failings of the transport and agricultural ministries
    Hunger and a bloodthirsty desire for change
    The purity of the revolutionary dream
  • Why was Dr. Manette imprisoned?
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  • Why does Charles Darnay return to France after his marriage?
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  • What three people denounce Darnay when the revolutionaries arrest him for a second time in France?
    Monsieur and Madame Defarge and Doctor Manette
    Monsieur Defarge, Doctor Manette, and the Marquis
    Madame Degarge, Jarvis Lorry, and Roger Cly
  • 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 one of these is not “a double” in the narrative?
    Lucy and Madame Defarge
    England and France
    Monsieur Defarge and Doctor Manette
    Carton and Darnay
  • 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 aspect of the revolution does the novel criticize?
    The way money was redistributed
    The way the peasants overthrow cruelty with cruelty
    That the British were not allowed to help restructure French
    That the peasants are not vicious enough
  • Why does the Doctor keep himself busy by making shoes after Lucie and Darnay get married?
    He discovers that Darnay is a traitor.
    He realizes that Darnay is the son of the man who sent him t
    He sees that Darnay has no shoes.
    He learns that Darnay is a revolutionary.
  • 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 saves Sydney Carton from his self-proclaimed wasted life?
    His love for Lucy
  • What is Charles Darnay’s real last name?
    Gabelle
    Marquis
    Defarge
    Evremonde
  • 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 all will be well
    That the revolutionaries must be overthrown before the count
  • Which character can be interpreted as being redeemed by actions?
    Mr. Lorry
    Monsieur Defarge
    Sydney Carton
    Jerry Stryver
  • 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.”
    Doctor Manette
    Sydney Carton
    Madame Defarge
    Lucie Manette
  • What characterizes Lucie?
    Love, purity, compassion, devotion
    sensitivity, indecision, timidity
    Passion, drama, bold actions
    Anger, self-righteousness, defensiveness
  • Whose side occupation is as a “Resurrection-Man”?
    Doctor Manette
    Sydney Carton
    Charles Darnay
    Jerry Cruncher
  • Why is Charles Darnay acquitted at his English trial?
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  • Who is Miss Pross’s brother, whose real name is Solomon, and a British spy?
    John Barsad
    Mr. Lorry
    Monsieur Defarge
    Roger Cly
  • How does Madame Defarge die?
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  • To whom is Carton often compared because of his sacrifice?
    Ghandi
    Job
    The Buddha
    Christ
  • 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
  • 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
    Lucie Manette
    Sydney Carton
    Doctor Manette
  • Which characters go through profound transformations?
    Monsieur and Madame Defarge
    Charles Darnay and Lucy
    Doctor Manette and Sydney Carton
    Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher
  • 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
  • Why does Dickens use the phrase “recalled to life” in reference to Doctor Manette?
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  • Who kills the Marquis d'Evremonde?
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  • Why does Darnay return to France in 1792?
    To turn in Defarge
    To expose the revolutionaries
    To help his family’s steward, who is in prison for helping D
    To visit a gravesite