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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