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LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 01
CHAPTER 1.1 THE PERIOD
1. B Dickens begins A Tale of Two Cities with a famous example
of an anaphora, "It was the best of times, it was the worst
of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of
foolishness..." An anaphora is a rhetorical device in which
words are repeated at the beginnings of neighboring
clauses in order to provide emphasis. [T2C: 3, 1]
2. D Dickens describes the period in which A Tale of Two Cities
takes place as "the age of wisdom," "the epoch of
incredulity," "the season of Light," and "the winter of
despair." He does not say that the period is "superlative,"
rather that it can be received "in the superlative degree of
comparison only." [T2C: 3, 1]
3. B Dickens compares the time period of A Tale of Two Cities to
"the present period." When the book was first published
(1859), the present was the 1850s. [T2C: 3, 1]
4. C During the time in which A Tale of Two Cities takes place,
George III and Charlotte Sophia ruled England. Dickens
describes them as a "king with a large jaw and a queen with
a plain face." Louis VXI and Marie Antoinette, who Dickens
describes as a "king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair
face," were on the throne of France. [T2C: 3, 2]
5. B A Tale of Two Cities begins in "the year of Our Lord one
thousand seven hundred and seventy‐five." Book Two
begins five years later in 1780. [T2C: 3, 3]
6. E Mrs. Joanna Southcott was a famous religious visionary in
England, known for her prophetic writings. 1 Around the
time of her birth, or "sublime appearance," a prophetic
private in the Life Guards predicted that London and
Westminster would be destroyed. The prophecy itself
caused panic in London, a particularly spiritual place during
the time period. [T2C: 3, 3]
7. B The Cock‐lane ghost was a poltergeist phenomenon,
believed to be the spirit of a woman who was murdered
and buried near a house on Cock Lane in which scratching
and knocking noises were heard. 2 The "ghost" was exposed
as a fraud and laid to rest in 1762, just over 12 years before
the novel begins in 1775. [T2C: 3,3]
8. B Dickens wrote a number of satirical articles about spirit‐
rappers and mediums. He refers to them as "supernaturally
deficient in originality" in A Tale of Two Cities. His allusion
to the "spirits of this very year last past" is a jab at spirit
mediums who faked communication with the dead. [T2C: 3, 3]
9. A Dickens compares the messages of the Cock‐lane ghost to
the more useful messages, containing petitions of
grievances, sent from the American Continental Congress to
the British Parliament. [T2C: 3, 3]
1 Prophets come in all shapes and sizes. The oracle at Delphi is classic,
but one of my personal favorites is Phil the mechanic from the television
show Everwood.‐Melanie
2 I can't help but picture Sam and Dean Winchester of Supernatural
fighting off ghosts in 18th century England.‐Melanie
10. E England was represented by the shield and trident. 3 These
symbols were often seen on British coins, in contrast with
the more commonly used paper money of France. [T2C: 4, 1]
11. E Dickens refers to a French youth being sentenced to have
his hands chopped off, tongue torn out, and body burned
alive after he disrespected a procession of monks by not
kneeling down in the rain as they walked within his view.
This is an allusion to the case of Chevalier de la Barre, who
was in actuality sentenced and executed in 1766 for this
offence, as well as other incidents of religious irreverence.
[T2C: 4, 1]
12. D Dickens describes the woodman, responsible for chopping
down the trees that will be turned into guillotines, as the
embodiment of Fate. This is possibly a reference to a
passage in Carlyle's The French Revolution about the growth
and destruction of significant things, as represented by an
oak tree. [T2C: 4, 1]
13. D Dickens describes the guillotine, an execution device used
to chop off peoples' heads at the neck, as a "certain
movable framework with a sack and knife in it." The device,
which was named after its original inventor, was intended
to be a humane means of killing instantly and painlessly. Its
use was not officially discontinued in France until 1981,
though the last execution by guillotine took place in 1977.
4 [T2C: 4,1]
14. B Dickens characterizes Death as the Farmer, working silently
and incessantly alongside the Woodman. [T2C: 4, 1]
15. C Tumbrils were originally farm carts that were given a new
purpose during the French Revolution. Though originally
"snuffed about by pigs, and roosted in by poultry," the carts
were later used to transport people from their trials to the
guillotine. Dickens portrays Death setting aside these "rude
carts, bespattered with rustic mire" for use in the
Revolution. [T2C: ]
16. A Dickens portrays England in 1775 as a place overrun with
crime and disorder. He describes, specifically, highway
robberies, burglaries, prison fights, and public shootings as
common occurrences. Even the Lord Mayor of London and
other nobles were frequent victims of theft. [T2C: 4, 2]
17. B The Lord Mayor of London was forced by a single
highwayman to "stand and deliver" 5 on Turnham Green,
meaning he had to stay still and hand over all of his money
and valuable possessions. Today we would simply say that
he was mugged. [T2C: 4, 2]
18. A Dickens describes an incident in which seven robbers
attacked and stole from a mail coach, one of many crimes
he paraphrased from the Annual Register. The guard was
3
Think of the magical weapon of King Triton in The Little Mermaid.‐
Melanie
4
I have had a few nightmares since seeing images of alpacas being
guillotined. In my opinion, certain French Revolution themed illustrations
are too disturbing to be rendered.‐Melanie
5
"Stand and deliver" does not, in this case, mean that one has to learn
calculus. That task can be left to the students in the movie by that
name.‐Melanie

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able to shoot three of the robbers, but was shot by the
other four when his ammunition failed him. [T2C: 4, 2]
19. D A turnkey is in charge of the keys at a jail, written as "gaol"
in British spelling. Dickens writes about prisoners fighting
with their turnkeys, causing the majesty of the law to shoot
into the crowds. [T2C: 4, 2]
20. D A blunderbuss is a type of gun. More specifically, it is a
musket with a large bore and flaring muzzle that is loaded
with shot and only accurate at close range. The gun's name
comes from the Dutch words for "thunder" and "pipe." It is
believed that it was called a blunderbuss because of the
confusion caused by the loud noise when the gun was shot
off. The musket was also called a dragon or dragoon, as it
was often decorated with images of dragons and created a
loud noise comparable to that of a fire‐breathing dragon.
[T2C: 4, 2]
21. E Dickens calls the hangman, who kills murderers and petty
thieves alike, "ever busy and ever worse than useless." [T2C: 4,
2]
22. E Dickens discusses the hangman's responsibility for both
burning pamphlets outside Westminster Hall and burning
criminals at Newgate prison. Pamphlets were burned to
publicly condemn sedition. [T2C: 4, 2]
23. C Dickens writes that the French and English kings "carried
their divine rights with a high hand." The Divine Right of
Kings was a doctrine asserting that the power of kings was
derived from God, and that monarchs are not subject to
any earthly authority. Thus, the kings were not obligated to
heed the wills of their subjects. [T2C: 5, 1]
24. A The first chapter of A Tale of Two Cities, entitled "The
Period," is intended to establish the era and setting of the
novel. Dickens compares and contrasts France and England,
primarily through descriptions of events that took place
around the year 1775. [T2C: 3‐5]
25. D During the time in which the novel takes place, France is
spending money excessively, has a harsh justice system,
and its people are interested in religion primarily out of fear
rather than spirituality. England is overrun with criminals,
doles out the death penalty indiscriminately, has subjects
petitioning grievances from America, and its people are
enthralled with the supernatural and spiritual. [T2C: 3‐5]

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 02
CHAPTER 1.2 THE MAIL
1. B The Dover mail coach lumbers up Shooter's Hill on its way
from London to Dover. 6 The journey is treacherous,
requiring the passengers to walk up the hill beside the
coach. [T2C: 6, 1]
2. E Three passengers traveled on the Dover mail coach. In
actuality, this coach did not exist until many years later. It
was common in Dickens' time, though, for passengers to
book seats on mail coaches. [T2C: 7, 1]
3. E The Dover mail coach makes its journey in November, a
time when the road is already thick with mud and the air is
filled with a cold mist. [T2C: 6, 1]
4. A The Dover mail coach is traveling on a Friday night in
November of 1775. [T2C: 6, 1]
5. E The passengers of the Dover mail coach must walk up
Shooter's Hill because the harness, mail, and mud prove too
heavy for the horses to carry. The horses stop three times
and draw the coach across the road once before the
passengers get out and walk alongside the coach. [T2C: 6, 1]
6. D The horses of the Dover mail coach pull the coach across
the road, mutinously intending to take it back to
Blackheath. Blackheath is the station preceding Shooter's
Hill, about three miles back toward London. [T2C: 6, 1]
7. E The Dover mail coach driver shakes his head like an
emphatic horse as he denies that the coach can make it up
Shooter's Hill. [T2C: 6, 2]
8. B The Dover mail coach makes its journey through a cold,
muddy, misty, dark night. All of these factors help establish
an ominous and foreboding atmosphere. Shadows play a
part in creating such an atmosphere later on, but not during
the mail coach's journey. [T2C: 6‐7]
9. E Dickens compares the mist to an "evil spirit, seeking rest
and finding none" as it roams up the hill and shuts out the
light and visibility. [T2C: 6, 3]
10. A The passengers of the Dover mail coach all wear jack‐boots,
a sturdy knee‐high military boot. [T2C: 7, 1]
11. C The mail coach passengers are wrapped in layers up to their
cheekbones and over their ears. Their appearances are
hidden and nondescript. [T2C: 7, 1]
12. E The mail coach passengers, and other travelers during that
time period, are afraid of revealing much to anyone
because anybody could be a robber or connected with a
group of robbers. [T2C: 7, 1]
13. D The guard of the Dover mail carries approximately eight to
ten weapons: a blunderbuss, six or eight horse‐pistols, and
a cutlass. A cutlass is a short, slashing sword. [T2C: 7, 1]
14. E The Dover mail coach makes it to the summit of Shooter's
Hill shortly after eleven o'clock at night. [T2C: 7, 6]
15. B The Dover mail coachman calls out to Joe, the guard, who
then calls the coachman by his name, Tom, when they hear
a horse galloping toward them. [T2C: 8, 4]
6 The appropriately named Shooter's Hill was known as a place where
dangerous criminals lurked, adding to the difficulty of the journey.‐
Melanie
16. E Jerry Cruncher asks the mail guard for passenger Jarvis
Lorry, who recognizes Jerry's voice from a distance. [T2C: 9, 12]
17. B Jerry Cruncher is a messenger for Tellson's Bank in London,
where Jarvis Lorry is a banker. [T2C: 9, 16]
18. A Jarvis Lorry tells the mail coach guard that he is headed
from London to Paris on business for Tellson's Bank. [T2C: 10,
5]
19. E Jerry Cruncher's message to Jarvis Lorry says, "Wait at
Dover for Mam'selle." [T2C: 10, 7]
20. D Jarvis Lorry tells Jerry Cruncher to bring Tellson's the
message "Recalled to life" as assurance that he received
Jerry's note. Jerry considers this a "blazing strange answer."
[T2C: 10, 7]
21. E Flint and steel were used to start fires before matches were
invented. 7 The mail coach guard keeps flint and steel
available in case the coachlamps are blown out so that he
can relight them. [T2C: 10, 11]
22. A At the end of the second chapter, Jerry speaks to his horse
and himself while walking back down Shooter's Hill. He calls
the horse "old lady.' [T2C: 11, 9]
23. E As Jerry Cruncher heads back down Shooter's Hill, he is wet
and muddy, confused by Lorry's message, and distrustful of
his horse's ability to carry him. However, he does not seem
angry. [T2C: 11, 8‐9]
24. B The passengers on the Dover mail coach keep themselves
and their possessions hidden away as much as possible.
They are secretive, not sharing much information with each
other. Dickens describes them as "hidden under almost as
many wrappers from the eyes of the mind, as from the eyes
of the body." When Jarvis Lorry leaves the coach to speak
to Jerry Cruncher, the other passengers hide their
belongings and pretend to sleep. [T2C: 7, 1; 9, 17; 10, 10]
25. A The Dover mail passengers hide away their possessions
inside their boots while Jarvis Lorry and Jerry Cruncher
speak outside the coach, worried that they might be
robbed. [T2C: 10, 10]
7 I think now they are only used to frustrate players on reality television
shows like Survivor.‐Melanie

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 03
CHAPTER 1.3 THE NIGHT SHADOWS
1. E Dickens writes that it is "a wonderful fact to reflect upon,
that every human creature is constituted to be that
profound secret and mystery to every other." Throughout
the novel, he continues to demonstrate that every
individual and every household has secrets, some of which
are taken to the grave. [T2C: 11, 10]
2. C The novel has a third‐person omniscient narrator. This type
is one of the most common and most reliable narrators. A
third‐person omniscient narrator knows all of the facts of
the story and all of the character's thoughts, sometimes
offering opinions about the plot and characters. [T2C: 11‐16]
3. D In the phrases "coach and six" and "coach and sixty," six
and sixty refer to the number of horses drawing the coach.
The passengers of the mail coach are in close quarters, but
as mysterious to each other as they would be in a larger
coach or separated by the breadth of a country. [T2C: 12, 1]
4. A Jerry Cruncher, who Dickens also refers to as "the
messenger," makes frequent stops at ale‐houses on his
return to Tellson's Bank after delivering Jarvis Lorry's
message. [T2C: 12, 2]
5. B Jerry cruncher has a hoarse voice that raises the mail coach
guard's suspicion. His eyes are described as being without
depth, color, or form, and very near together "as if they
were afraid of being found out in something, singly."
Cruncher also has black hair, except for a bald spot on the
crown of his head, and a broad, blunt nose. While riding
back from delivering his message, he wears a three‐
cornered hat and a muffler, or scarf, over his chin and
throat. Cruncher has to move the scarf out of his mouth's
way when he stops to consume liquor. [T2C: 11, 9; 12, 2; 13, 2]
6. A Jerry Cruncher has stiff, black hair, except in the bald area
of his crown. Dicken's compares his jagged hair to a
"strongly spiked wall," saying that it would endanger even
the best leap‐frog players. [T2C: 13, 2]
7. A Dickens jokes that even the best leap‐frog players would
decline playing with Jerry Cruncher because of his
dangerously spiky hair. [T2C: 13, 2]
8. B Jarvis Lorry drifts through dreams as he sleeps on the mail
coach, most commonly dreaming of his work at Tellson's
Bank. He also dreams, though, that he is about to dig
somebody out of a grave. [T2C: 13, 5]
9. E In his dream, Jarvis Lorry illuminates the strong‐rooms of
his bank with a candle. Oil‐lamps were also commonly used
at the time, though matches, gas lighting, and electric
lighting were not yet invented. [T2C: 13, 5]
10. C Jarvis Lorry dreams mostly of his work at the bank while
sleeping in the mail coach. However, he also has "another
current of impression that never ceased to run, all
throughout the night." This impression is that he is on his
way to dig somebody out of a grave. 8 [T2C: 14, 1]
11. E Jarvis Lorry sees a variety of faces of the man he is about to
recall to life, all of them about 45 years old. [T2C: 14, 2]
8 Lorry's digging is often compared to Dickens' digging up peoples'
secrets.‐Melanie
12. E The spectre Jarvis Lorry sees in his dream varies in facial
expression, appearance of sunken cheeks, skin color, and
emaciation of hands and fingers. All the faces he sees,
though, have prematurely white hair. [T2C: 14, 2]
13. B Jarvis Lorry repeatedly asks the spectre in his dreams,
"Buried how long?" [T2C: 14, 3]
14. C Every time Jarvis Lorry asks the spectre how long he has
been buried, the response is almost eighteen years. [T2C: 14, 4]
15. E Lorry imagines a variety of responses to the question, "Will
you come and see her?" The answers are various and
contradictory. One such answer is a broken reply, fearful of
causing pain by going too soon. Another is tearful before
deciding to go see her. Yet another was staring, bewildered,
and confused. None of these imaginary responses are
enthusiastic and certain. [T2C: 14, 12]
16. C Before Jarvis Lorry wakes up from his dream, he digs a
creature out of a grave, emerges covered in dirt, and turns
to dust. [T2C: 15, 1]
17. D Each time Jarvis Lorry asks the ghostly face, "Do you care to
live?" the answer remains, "I can't say." [T2C: 14, 10; 15, 6]
18. C Jarvis Lorry lowers his window so that the feeling of the rain
and mist can bring him back to reality when he awakens
from a dream. However, when the other passengers urge
him to pull the window up, he loses himself to sleep again.
[T2C: 15, 1]
19. C Jarvis Lorry awakens from his dreams to see the sun rising
over a ridge of ploughed land in front of a coppice‐wood 9
with some trees still covered in red and yellow leaves. The
earth, however, is still wet when Lorry awakens. [T2C: 15, 13]
20. A When Jarvis Lorry awakens from his dreams, he sees a
wood and a farm, reminiscent of Fate and Death from the
first chapter. The rising sun likely symbolizes a resurrection
or rebirth from the shadows of night to the illumination of
daytime. [T2C: 15, 13]
9 Coppicing is cutting young tree stems down to almost ground level so
that new shoots will emerge over the years before eventual harvesting.‐
Melanie

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 04
CHAPTER 1.4 THE PREPARATION
1. E The Dover mail successfully arrives "in the course of the
forenoon," meaning the morning. 10 [T2C: 16, 2]
2. C Jarvis Lorry stays at the Royal George Hotel while he is in
Dover. 11 [T2C: 16, 2]
3. D The narrator compares the mail coach to a large dog‐
kennel. By the end of its journey, the coach is mildewy,
damp, dirty, and malodorous. 12 Mr. Lorry, the last of the
passengers, is similarly compared to a dog as he shakes off
the straw and mud from his body. [T2C: 16, 3]
4. D A drawer at a hotel is a bartender, also known as a tapster
at a tavern. [T2C: 16, 2]
5. B Jarvis Lorry asks the hotel drawer if a packet, or boat, will
be going to Calais. A packet went frequently between two
parts to convey mail, goods, and passengers. [T2C: 16, 4]
6. E Mr. Lorry requests a bedroom and a barber. Lorry wears a
wig, but may still want to keep his actual hair cut short, or
have his facial hair shaved. [T2C: 16, 6]
7. D Lorry's hotel room, or set of rooms, is named Concord. This
room is assigned to mail passengers who commonly enter
and exit looking like entirely different people. [T2C: 16, 7]
8. E Jarvis Lorry is sixty years old when the novel begins. [T2C: 17, 1]
9. D A number of the hotel staff position themselves between
Mr. Lorry's room and the coffee‐room in order to see what
he looks like after removing his travel clothes. [T2C: 17, 1]
10. D Mr. Lorry is dressed formally in a well‐kept brown suit with
brown stockings and plainly buckled shoes. Much of his
clothing is out of fashion by the time, but he still appears
well groomed. [T2C: 17, 1]
11. D Jarvis Lorry is said to be vain about his shapely legs, as he
wears tightly fitted brown stockings made of finely textured
material. [T2C: 17, 3]
12. C While waiting in the coffee‐room for his breakfast, Mr.
Lorry sits so still that he resembles a man sitting for a
portrait, and then falls asleep until his breakfast arrives. 13
[T2C: 18, 1]
13. D While many of the Tellson's Bank employees travel
frequently between London and Paris, Jarvis Lorry has not
made the trek for the 15 years prior to his trip with Miss
Manette. [T2C: 18, 8]
14. C Dover is famous for its white cliffs, made out of chalk. [T2C:
19, 1]
10 This is my least favorite time of day. I would sleep through it more
often if my cat and puppy would let me.‐Melanie
11 This hotel was destroyed the year after the novel was published in
order to make room for a railway. These days, they would be making
room for a strip mall.‐Melanie
12 I recently worked at a veterinary hospital where I cleaned quite a few
dog kennels. I can attest to them being quite dirty and malodorous.‐
Melanie
13 I, too, am likely to fall right back to sleep without my morning coffee.
Though, sometimes a nice cup of tea, especially chai, will suffice.‐
Melanie
15. D Dickens compares the beach town of Dover to a marine
ostrich, making reference to the common belief that
ostriches hide their heads in the sand. [T2C: 19, 1]
16. D The air in Dover is piscatory, meaning that it smells fishy.
Dickens says that "one might have supposed sick fish went
up to be dipped in it, as sick people went down to be
dipped in the sea." [T2C: 19. 1]
17. A Dickens alludes to the many smugglers in Dover who bring
goods from France to England. He says that much strolling
takes place at night, tradesman make fortunes without
doing any business, and everybody has an aversion to
lamplighters. [T2C: 19, 1]
18. E Jarvis Lorry has finished dinner and is drinking a bottle of
claret, a type of wine, when he hears the wheels of Miss
Manette's coach rattling along the street by his hotel. [T2C: 19.
3]
19. C Dickens describes Miss Manette as a young woman, not
more than seventeen years old, when she meets with Mr.
Lorry. [T2C: 20, 2]
20. C Jarvis Lorry sees a likeness between Miss Manette and a
child he once took across the English Channel, but the
likeness passed away "like a breath along the surface of the
gaunt pier‐glass behind her." [T2C: 20, 2]
21. A Miss Manette says that the Bank sent for Mr. Lorry because
she was advised to go to France, but has no friends or
family with whom to travel. [T2C: 21, 10]
22. E Mr. Lorry tells Miss Manette to think of him as a speaking
machine, simply fulfilling his business responsibilities,
though he seems to possess strong feelings for a machine.
He says he spends his life as a "pecuniary mangle," a
machine for solving fiscal problems. [T2C: 22, 9; 23, 5]
23. A The French aristocracy had "the privilege of filling up blank
forms," meaning they could have their enemies imprisoned
without a trial. [T2C: 24, 4]
24. A The gentleman of Lorry's story, Doctor Manette, is from the
French city of Beauvais, a town north of Paris. [T2C: 22, 13]
25. C Miss Manette's emotion confuses Mr. Lorry, who is
attempting to tell her father's story as a business matter.
He asks her to perform monetary calculations to
demonstrate that she is clear‐headed. Lorry is comforted by
the familiar business of banking, even if Miss Manette does
not directly answer his questions. [T2C: 25, 2]
26. A Miss Manette was only two years old when her mother
died. Her father disappeared right before the time of her
birth. [T2C: 25, 4]
27. B Miss Manette goes into shock when she is told that her
father is still alive. She speaks only in a dream‐like whisper,
her body and facial expression fixed and unmoving. [T2C: 26‐27]
28. B Miss Manette's caregiver is a "wild‐looking woman," with
red hair, tight‐fitting clothing, a tall bonnet, brawny hands,
and a manly appearance. In her anger with Mr. Lorry for
upsetting Miss Manette, the caregiver sends him flying up
against a wall. (He declares, "I really think this must be a
man!") She then loudly demands that the inn servants fetch

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smelling‐salts, cold water, and vinegar to revive Miss
Manette. [T2C: 27, 1‐2]
29. E Miss Manette's caregiver demands smelling salts, cold
water, and vinegar to use as restoratives. Heated bricks,
mustard plasters, and lavender oil were also commonly
used during that time to revive women suffering from
hysteria. 14 [T2C: 27, 3]
30. C When Jarvis Lorry asks Miss Manette's caregiver if she will
accompany Miss Manette to France, she responds, "If it
was ever intended that I should go across salt water, do you
suppose Providence would have cast my lot in an island?"
This suggests that she is fearful of the boat ride necessary
to travel from England to France. [T2C: 28, 3]
14 I have never personally had the opportunity to try these remedies,
though I once soothed a number of wasp stings with rosemary oil.‐
Melanie

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 05
CHAPTER 1.5 THE WINE‐SHOP
1. D When a cask of wine spills in the streets of Saint Antoine,
the people stop what they are doing to sip wine from the
streets. [T2C: 28, 6]
2. E A "tall joker" named Gaspard writes the word "blood" in
wine‐lees on the wall of the wine shop. [T2C: 29, 2]
3. B Dickens writes about Saint Antoine as though it is a person,
referring to its "sacred countenance." [T2C: 30, 2]
4. E Hunger is prevalent everywhere in Saint Antoine. Dickens
uses an anaphora to describe the ubiquity of hunger in
every area of the town, continuing to refer to it and
taxation as primary causes of the revolution throughout the
novel. [T2C: 30, 2]
5. D Dickens says, "Hunger was shred into atomies in every
farthing porringer of husky chips of potato, fried with some
reluctant drops of oil." A farthing is a coin worth a quarter
of a penny, and a porringer is a bowl that is usually used to
hold liquid foods. A "farthing porringer" implies a very
small, simple meal. [T2C:30, 2]
6. D The trade signs of Saint Antoine are described as "grim
illustrations of Want," with lean meat on the butcher's sign
and meager loaves of bread on the baker's sign. [T2C: 30. 3]
7. E Tools and weapons are the only things represented as
flourishing in Saint Antoine. The knives and axes are
described as sharp and bright, the hammers are heavy, and
the guns murderous. Everything else seems to be perishing
and falling apart. [T2C: 30; 3]
8. E The "tall joker" who writes the word "blood" in wine on the
wall of the wine‐shop is named Gaspard. [T2C: 32, 2]
9. D The wine‐shop keeper is described as a "bull‐necked,
martial‐looking" man with dark skin and "crisply, curling
short dark hair." He has "good eyes and a good bold
breadth between them." Further, he is "good‐humored‐
looking" and "implacable‐looking." Implacable means not
easily appeased. However, Dickens says he is "a man not
desirable to be met." His harsh interaction with Gaspard
suggests that he is not especially friendly. [T2C: 32, 7]
10. C The wine‐shop owner, Ernest Defarge, is the leader of a
band of revolutionary peasants called the Jacquerie. The
members referred to each other as Jacques to preserve
their anonymity. [T2C: 33‐34]
11. D Madame Defarge is picking her teeth with a toothpick when
Monsieur Defarge returns to his wine‐shop after the spilling
of the cask. She continues to pick at her teeth while he
speaks to his customers, then picks up her knitting. [T2C: 32, 8]
12. B Doctor Manette is kept in a locked chamber on the fifth
floor of the wine‐shop. [34, 9]
13. C Defarge keeps Manette locked up because he does not
want to frighten Manette, who lived for many years locked
up and might not know what to do if left with the freedom
of an open door. [T2C: 37, 4]
14. D Defarge says he shows Manette to a chosen few men of his
name, meaning members of the Jacquerie, as he believes
the sight will do them good. Lorry is angry at Defarge for
displaying Doctor Manette. [T2C: 38, 7]
15. B Jarvis Lorry often repeats the words "business, business" to
Lucie Manette, perhaps to comfort himself more than her.
[T2C: 37, 8]
16. B The garret where Doctor Manette is held by Monsieur
Defarge was intended to be a depository for firewood. [T2C:
39, 1]
17. C When Lucie Manette, Jarvis Lorry, and Monseiur Defarge
enter the garret where Doctor Manette is living, they see
him stooped over busily making shoes. [T2C: 39, 1]
18. E The people of Saint Antoine drink wine from the streets
(but do not roll in them), some getting tigerish smears
around their mouths. Dickens says they have a hunted air
about them and carry a wild‐beast thought of turning at
bay. He portrays a loss of humanity as people are overcome
with hunter and anger. [T2C: 28‐31]
19. B Dickens foreshadows the French Revolution, still 14 years
away, with the staining of the streets in wine, much like the
blood that is to come. The mob mentality the people show
in drinking wine off the streets is similar to their later frenzy
over sharpening their weapons. Dickens also writes about
the scarecrows someday conceiving of ways to haul up men
by ropes and pulleys. The incredible hunger felt by the
people of France will later motivate their revolutionary
anger. Further, Madame Defarge's knitting symbolizes her
vengefulness, which she will later use to knit registries of
those sentenced to death. [T2C: 28‐39]
20. C Lucie Manette says that she is afraid of her father. Her
fragile mentality and Monsieur Defarge's hurriedness force
Jarvis Lorry to physically carry her toward the room where
her father is kept. [T2C: 38, 11]
21. C
22. B
23. B
24. C
25. C

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 06
CHAPTER 1.6 THE SHOEMAKER
1. E Doctor Manette's voice is faint from disuse. Dickens
compares it to a "once beautiful colour faded away into a
poor weak stain." [T2C: 40, 1]
2. D Doctor Manette's eyes are repeatedly described as
haggard. They are tired, dull, and mechanical. [T2C: 40, 2]
3. A Doctor Manette tells Mr. Lorry that he is making a lady's
walking‐shoe of the present mode based on a pattern. [T2C:
42, 5]
4. E Doctor Manette identifies himself as One Hundred and Five,
North Tower, demonstrating the impact of his lengthy
imprisonment. [T2C: 42, 10]
5. A Doctor Manette requested a leave during his time in prison
to teach himself how to make shoes. [T2C: 42, 16]
6. B When Doctor Manette first sees Lucie, he asks if she is the
jailer's daughter. She replies no and then he inquires about
who she is before eventually recognizing her. [T2C: 44, 9]
7. A Doctor Manette keeps a lock of his wife's golden hair in a
rag around his neck to help him escape "in the spirit" while
imprisoned. [T2C: 45, 1‐4]
8. E Doctor Manette's prematurely white hair is contrasted with
his daughter's radiant, golden hair. [T2C: 46, 3]
9. B Lucie's hair is compared to "the light of Freedom" shining
on her father in the darkness of Defarge's garret. Her
golden hair, similar to her mother's, helps Doctor Manette
recognize her. [T2C: 46, 3]
10. C Lucie Manette repeatedly implores her father to "weep for
it" if he remembers anything of his former life and home.
[T2C: 46, 4‐6]
11. D Mr. Lorry asks Lucie if her father is fit for the journey out of
Paris, but Lucie and Monsieur Defarge declare that traveling
is better than remaining in the city. [T2C: 47, 4]
12. E Lorry and Defarge gather bread, meat, wine, and coffee for
Doctor Manette's journey out of France. Defarge then puts
provender, or food, on the shoemaker's bench before
waking Doctor Manette for the trip. [T2C: 48, 2]
13. D Doctor Manette alters his walking as he reaches the
courtyard outside Defarge's shop, expecting to encounter a
drawbridge as he would at the Bastille. [T2C: 49, 3]
14. B Madame Defarge stands against the doorpost knitting while
Doctor Manette is taken from the garret to his coach. There
are no other people in the street or discernible from the
windows. [T2C: 49, 4]
15. A Doctor Manette asks for his shoemaking tools and
unfinished shoes before leaving France. Madame Defarge
brings them to him. [T2C: 49, 5]
16. E Monsieur Defare gives the word to go to the barrier before
leaving the courtyard outside his wine shop. [T2C: 49, 6]
17. C A postilion is a coach‐driver who sits mounted on one of
the horses, unlike the coachman who sits on the vehicle
with the passengers. The postilion cracks his whip and gets
the horses moving when Defarge gives the word to leave.
[T2C: 49, 6]
18. E The first book of the novel ends with Mr. Lorry wondering if
Doctor Manette will "care to be recalled to life" and the old
answer from the shadows of, "I can't say." [T2C: 50, 4]
19. A The tone of the reunion between the Manettes is
sentimental and saccharine, perhaps so much so that
modern readers might find it difficult to take seriously.
However, Dickens' readers would likely have wept at the
melodramatic scene. [T2C: 44‐47]
20. A Mr. Lorry, a typically business‐oriented individual, makes
plans for Doctor Manette's journey out of Paris. He says, "If
business is to be done, I had better do it." [T2C: 47, 7]
21. A
22. C
23. D
24. B
25. A

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 07
CHAPTER 2.1 FIVE YEARS LATER
1. B The second book of A Tale of Two Cities begins in 1780, five
years after Doctor Manette is brought from France to
England. [T2C: 53, 1]
2. D Tellson's Bank, located next to Temple Bar, is described as
old‐fashioned. It is small, dark, ugly, and objectionable.
These features are thought to be the key to its
respectability. [T2C: 54, 1]
3. B Tellson's Bank and the country of England are on par in that
both would disinherit their sons for suggesting
improvements to respectable, though objectionable,
businesses and laws. [T2C: 53, 2]
4. C The door of Tellson's Bank has a "weak rattle in its throat."
When you pass through the door of "idiotic obstinacy" you
stumble down two steps into the shop. [T2C: 53, 3]
5. B Tellson's keeps "lighter boxes of family papers" in a
Barmecide room. A Barmecide room is one in which things
are an illusion, alluding to a prince in Arabian Nights who
presents a beggar with an empty plate while offering him a
feast. [T2C: 53, 3]
6. C Dickens says, "Death is Nature's remedy for all things, and
why not Legislation's?" Execution is a common punishment
in England during A Tale of Two Cities. [T2C: 54, 1]
7. B Dickens says that at the time "putting to death was a recipe
much in vogue with all trades and professions." Tellson's is
no exception, responsible for identifying counterfeiters,
debtors, forgers, and purloiners to be put to death. Grave
robbers would likely be put to death as well, but Tellson's
reports crimes related to banking. [T2C: 54, 1]
8. E The displayed heads of the executed at Temple Bar are
compared to the brutality of Abyssinia or Ashantee, two
African countries known for their barbarity. [T2C: 53, 3]
9. C Dickens says that the death penalty does not do any good
in preventing crime, but does eliminate the trouble of
dealing with each case, leaving nothing to look after. [T2C: 54,
1]
10. A Young men go into Tellson's and are hidden in a dark place,
like cheese, until they grow old and develop the full flavor
of the place. [T2C: 55, 1]
11. B Jerry Cruncher, Tellson's odd‐job‐man, serves as the "live
sign of the house." [T2C: 55, 2]
12. C Jerry Cruncher is always outside Tellson's, unless on an
errand. When he is gone, he is represented by his son of
the same name who is described as a "grisly urchin." [T2C: 55, 2]
13. D Young Jerry Cruncher, an "express image" of his father, is
twelve years old. [T2C: 55, 2]
14. E Young Jerry Cruncher received his name during his baptism
at the easterly parish church of Houndsditch. [T2C: 55, 2]
15. D Jerry Cruncher's home is located in Hanging‐sword‐alley,
Whitefriars. [T2C: 55, 3]
16. D The second book begins on a "windy March morning" in
1780. [T2C: 55, 3]
17. E Jerry Cruncher mistakes Anno Domini for Anna Dominoes.
Dickens jokes that Cruncher must think the Christian era
dated from the invention of the game by a lady who gave it
her name. [T2C: 55, 3]
18. E Jerry Cruncher is angry with his wife for saying her prayers,
convinced that she is praying against his prosperity. [T2C: 56, 8]
19. A Jerry Cruncher throws a muddy boot at his wife when he
believes she is praying against him. His boots, interestingly,
are clean when he gets home from work at the bank, but
dirty the next morning. [T2C: 56, 5]
20. C Mr. Cruncher calls his wife "Aggerawayter," likely his way of
saying aggravator. [T2C: 56, 6]
21. E Jerry Cruncher bring a wooden stool, made from a cut
down broken‐backed chair, to sit on outside the banking
house. [T2C: 58, 6]
22. A Jerry Cruncher is encamped at Tellson's by a quarter before
nine. [T2C: 58, 7]
23. B The two Jerry Crunchers look like a pair of monkeys are
they look out at the morning traffic in Fleet‐street. [T2C: 58, 7]
24. A Jerry Cruncher's fingers are always suspiciously rusty. His
son wonders where he gets the iron rust from, as it does
not come from working at the bank. [T2C: 59, 5]
25. A Jerry Cruncher is suspicious in his paranoia regarding his
wife's prayers, mysteriously muddy boots, and rusty fingers.
[T2C: 56‐59]

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 08
CHAPTER 2.2 A SIGHT
1. E The Old Bailey is a criminal court on Old Bailey Street in
London. [T2C: 59, 6]
2. D Jerry Cruncher is sent to the Old Bailey to act as a
messenger for Jarvis Lorry. [T2C: 60, 5]
3. D The punishment for treason is quartering, which involves
partial hanging, eviscerating while alive, beheading, and
then cutting the body into pieces. [T2C: 60, 11]
4. E The "Judge in the black cap" alludes to the cap worn when
giving the death sentence. Dickens says that the judge
giving the sentence was often killed before the prisoner. [T2C:
61, 1]
5. D The Old Bailey illustrates the aphorism that "Whatever is, is
right," which Dickens describes as being "as final as it is
lazy." [T2C: 61, 1]
6. D People paid to see the entertainment at the Old Bailey as
they did at Bedlam, a famous London mental hospital,
though Dickens says that the former was more
entertaining. [T2C: 61, 2]
7. A The prisoner is a 25‐year‐old man described as "well‐grown
and well‐looking." [T2C: 63, 2]
8. B The prisoner's hair is long, dark, and gathered in a ribbon at
the back of his neck. [T2C: 63, 2]
9. A The prisoner, Charles Darnay, is accused of divulging
information to the French King. [T2C: 64, 1]
10. A Charles Darnay allegedly gave the King of France
information about England's plans to send armed forces to
fight in the American colonies. [T2C: 64, 1]
11. B Charles Darnay is quiet, attentive, and composed during his
trial. [T2C: 64, 2]
12. B Herbs and vinegar are sprinkled in the courtroom in order
to prevent jail air and jail fever. Typhus was endemic in
confined places. [T2C: 64, 2]
13. E A mirror hangs over Charles Darnay's head in the
courtroom, reflections of the prisoner passing much like the
many prisoners who passed from the earth before him. [T2C:
64, 3]
14. A Doctor Manette, a witness at Darnay's trial has an intense
face described as "pondering and self‐communing." [T2C: 65, 2]
15. D Lucie Manette's noticeable pity for Charles Darnay causes
the spectators to stare and wonder who she is. [T2C: 65, 3]
16. B Doctor and Lucie Manette are witnesses against Charles
Darnay. [T2C: 65, 5]
17. C Jerry Cruncher sucks rust off his fingers while absorbed in
the trial. [T2C: 65, 4]
18. A Dickens juxtaposes the formality of the trial with informal,
parenthetical thoughts of the uneducated spectators. [T2C:
64]
19. E Darnay's paleness that comes through despite the darkness
of his skin shows his soul to be "stronger than the sun." [T2C;
63, 2]
20. D The spectators have an interest in Darnay's trial that
Dickens says, "was not a sort that elevated humanity." Their
eager faces and enthusiastic speech show a level of interest
that he calls "Ogreish." [T2C: 63, 3]
21. A
22. E
23. E
24. A
25. B

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 09
CHAPTER 2.3 A DISAPPOINTMENT
1. D John Barsad is described by the Attorney‐General as a
patriot who rooted out his friend's treasonous actions for
the good of his country. [T2C: 66, 1; 68, 2]
2. E The Attorney‐General tells the jury that if they do not find
the prisoner guilty they will never be able to lay their heads
upon their pillows, or tolerate the idea of their wives or
children laying their heads on their pillows. [T2C: 66, 1]
3. B The courtroom is repeatedly filled with a buzzing as
through blue‐flies are already swarming Darnay before he is
even sentenced. [T2C: 68, 1]
4. D John Barsad has a history of multiple imprisonments,
gambling, cheating, and debt. He is asked whether he has
worked as a spy, but denies it, and no evidence is provided
to the contrary. [T2C: 68, 3]
5. E Roger Cly, who is shown to be a rather untrustworthy
witness, says that he observed Charles Darnay showing lists
to several French gentlemen. [T2C: 69, 1]
6. B Dickens portrays the British legal satirically, mocking the
Attorney‐General's self‐important speech, courtroom
legalese, and hyperbolized virtuousness of the witnesses.
[T2C: 66‐79]
7. A Jarvis Lorry cannot swear that he saw Charles Darnay on
the Dover mail coach because the passengers were all
bundled up, but is certain that Darnay was on the packet‐
ship at Calais. [T2C: 70, 19]
8. C Lucie Manette speaks well of Darnay, who helped her shield
her father from the wind and weather on the ship from
France to England. She saw the prisoner showing papers to
two French gentlemen, but does not know anything about
them or the specifics of Darnay's business. [T2C: 72, 3]
9. D Lucie Manette turns the court against Darnay most when
she describes his conversation about George Washington
gaining as much fame as George the Third. The Judge
considers this "tremendous heresy." [T2C: 73, 5]
10. A Doctor Manette cannot identify Charles Darnay from his
travels between France and England because he does not
remember anything about the period. His memory of the
time between working in the Bastille and living with his
daughter in London is blank. [T2C: 74, 12]
11. D Sydney Carton spends most of the trial staring at the
ceiling, looking disinterested. Despite his apparent
disinterest, he notices details crucial to acquitting Darnay.
[T2C: 74, 14]
12. B Carton realizes that he resembles Charles Darnay, causing
Stryver to question whether the prosecution's witness
might be mistaken about the identity of the man he saw.
He could have seen somebody who looked similar to
Darnay and rashly decided that it was the prisoner. [T2C: 74‐75]
13. D Stryver tries to convince the jury that Barsad and Cly, not
Darnay, are the spies. He argues that Darnay is an innocent
victim, caught up in the trial because family affairs force
him to travel between England and France. [T2C: 75, 7]
14. C Dickens compares Stryver and the Attorney‐General's
presentations of information to the jury with fitting a suit of
clothes, then turning it inside out and outside in. [T2C: 75‐76]
15. A Jerry Cruncher remarks on Sydney Carton's debauched
appearance, saying that Sydney Carton does not look like
the type to get much law‐work to do. [T2C: 76, 3]
16. D Sydney Carton, who mostly stares at the ceiling, is the first
to notice his resemblance with Darnay and the first to see
Lucie Manette fainting. [T2C: 77, 1]
17. B Darnay says that he expects the worst from the jury,
meaning he anticipates being sentenced to the death
penalty. [T2C: 78, 15]
18. A The jury spent an hour and a half deliberating before
returning to the courtroom with their verdict. [T2C: 79, 1]
19. C Jerry Cruncher delivers the message "Acquitted" to
Tellson's Bank following Darnay's trial. However, Cruncher
tells Lorry that the message "Recalled to Life" would have
made sense to him this time. [T2C: 79, 6]
20. C The crowd leaving the courthouse after Darnay's trial for
treason is compared with buzzing blue‐flies in search of
other carrion, as Darnay will no longer be killed. [T2C: 79, 8]
21. D
22. E
23. B
24. A
25. A

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 10
CHAPTER 2.4 CONGRATULATORY
1. A Doctor Manette, Lucie Manette, Jarvis Lorry, and Mr.
Stryver gather around Charles Darnay to congratulate him
after his trial. Carton approaches Darnay later to invite him
out to a tavern. [T2C: 79, 9]
2. C While in London, Doctor Manette is approximately three
hundred miles away from the Bastille. [T2C: 80, 1]
3. E Lucie Manette is often described as a golden thread,
connecting her father with his past and present. [T2C: 80, 2]
4. A Mr. Stryver is about thirty years old, but looks closer to 50,
during Darnay's first trial. [T2C: 80, 3]
5. A Mr Stryver looks 20 years older than his 30 years, appearing
"stout, loud, red, bluff, and free from any drawback of
delicacy." [T2C: 80, 3]
6. A Stryver is not at all delicate, pushing his way into companies
and conversations. He is stout, loud, bluff, and red. [T2C: 80, 3]
7. B Lorry criticizes Carton for not being a man of business,
saying that business is a respectable thing. [T2C: 82, 7‐13]
8. B When Carton approaches Darnay after the trial, he smells
of port wine and appears drunk. [T2C: 83, 1]
9. E Charles Darnay toasts to Miss Manette after he finishes
eating his post‐trial dinner with Sydney Carton. [T2C: 84, 5]
10. E Darnay tells Carton that he will call the whole reckoning,
meaning he will pay the entirety of the bill in thanks for
Carton's role in the trial. [T2C: 85, 5‐6]
11. A Before Darnay leaves him for the night, Carton orders more
wine and asks the drawer to wake him up at ten o'clock. [T2C:
85, 6]
12. C Carton says that he drinks because he is a "disappointed
drudge." He believes that he does not care for anyone, and
nobody cares for him. [T2C: 85, 11]
13. A Carton dislikes Darnay because he shows what Carton has
fallen away from, and what he might have been. [T2C: 85, 15]
14. E Carton believes that if he could change places with Darnay,
Lucie Manette would look at him with the same affection.
[T2C: 85, 15]
15. A Carton falls asleep at his table in the tavern after drinking
too much wine, with a "long winding‐sheet in the candle
dripping down upon him." The winding‐sheet is usually a
burial shroud, but in this case a solid candle dripping that
foreshadows death. [T2C: 86, 1]
16. E Carton drunkenly falls asleep at the dinner table in the
tavern, his hair hanging over the table and candle drippings
falling on him. [T2C: 86, 1]
17. C Darnay and Carton resemble each other in physical
appearances, though their temperaments, dress, manner,
and status differ drastically. [T2C: 82‐86]
18. E Doctor Manette looks at Darnay after the trial while still
shadowed by his past. He has a look that is described as
"intent" with a frown of "dislike and distrust." [T2C: 81, 8]
19. D Darnay's friends disperse after congratulating him,
assuming that he will not be released that night. [T2C: 81, 13]
20. E Carton, jealous of Lucie's apparent affection for Darnay,
asks him if it is worth being tried for his life to be the object
of her sympathy. He does not answer the question. [T2C: 84, 10]
21. B
22. D
23. A
24. E
25. E

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 11
CHAPTER 2.5 THE JACKAL
1. B The courthouse is also known as the "bed of wigs," as wigs
and hair powder were commonly worn in the legal setting.
[T2C: 86, 3]
2. D Stryver worked his way high up the ranks of his profession,
like a "great sunflower pushing its way at the sun from a
rank gardenfull of flaring comparisons." [T2C: 86, 3]
3. D In the English legal year, there are four terms. The first is
Hilary Term and the last is Michaelmas Term; roughly a full
year passes between them. [T2C: 87, 1]
4. C Sydney Carton is described as the "idlest and most
uncompromising of men." Though he and Stryver went to
the same school and begin as colleagues, Stryver quickly
outranked Carton. [T2C: 87, 1]
5. C A jackal, like Sydney Carton, is someone who performs
menial tasks for another person. Carton works as Stryver's
researcher and assistant. [T2C: 87, 1]
6. A Stryver has a "wild, strained, seared marking about the
eyes." Dickens attributes this to drinking, saying it is
observed in all "free livers of his class" and "through the
portraits of every Drinking Age." [T2C: 87, 9]
7. E Carton folds wet towels on his head while readying himself
for a night's work, reapplying this "damp headgear" when
his work becomes especially challenging. [T2C: 88, 9]
8. B Carton and Stryver finish their work at three in the
morning, then fill another bumper of punch and talk. [T2C: 89,
1]
9. D Carton and Stryver attended school together at Shrewsbury
School, a prestigious English public school that would have
specialized in classical education. [T2C: 89, 8]
10. D Stryver calls Carton "seesaw Sydney," criticizing his mood
fluctuations. Stryver urges Carton to drink more punch to
smooth out his temper. [T2C: 89, 8]
11. C While Carton is compared to a jackal, Stryver is made out to
be a lion. [T2C: 87‐89]
12. E Carton believes that Stryver was born at the front rank, and
stayed there through a combination of luck, shouldering
and pressing others out of the way, and paying Carton for
help. He does not attribute any sort of exceptional
intelligence to Stryver. [T2C: 90]
13. E Stryver refers to Lucie as "picturesque" and "pretty," saying
she was the admiration of the entire court. Carton
dismisses her as a "golden‐haired doll." [T2C: 91, 3]
14. E A perspective‐glass is a device that improves a person's
vision. Carton says that such an aid is unnecessary for a
man to see a girl swooning. [T2C: 91, 10]
15. E When Carton leaves Stryver's chambers to go home, he
emerges into a lifeless, grim, silent city. The landscape is
cold, sad, dull, dark, and dim. [T2C: 91, 11]
16. A When he arrives at home, Carton falls asleep, still in his
clothes, wetting his pillow with tears. [T2C: 91, 12]
17. C Carton is resigned to his low professional status, accepting
his role in helping Stryver to achieve greater rank. [T2C: 92, 1]
18. E Carton and Stryver's relationship is primarily friendly.
Though there are some hard feelings between them, they
work and talk and drink together peacefully, reflecting on
the many years they have known each other. [T2C: 88‐91]
19. C Carton hides his longings for a better life, but sees a mirage
filled with the things he longs for: love, hope, ambition,
perseverance, and self‐denial. As quickly as it appears, it
disappears, leaving Carton to return home and cry himself
to sleep. [T2C: 91, 12]
20. C Stryver's chamber is full of books and papers, with a blazing
fire, a kettle, and all the ingredients for punch. Jeffries'
portrait is alluded to when Dickens discusses the marks
around the eyes of those with "free livers," but it is not
located in Stryver's chambers. [T2C: 88, 3]
21. D
22. D
23. A
24. E
25. D

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 12
CHAPTER 2.6 HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE
1. E Doctor Manette resides on a quiet street‐corner near Soho‐
square. [T2C: 92, 2]
2. B Dickens compares the positive freedom of country breezes
to the languishing of stay paupers. The poor were supposed
to be given assistance by their parishes, but during Dickens'
time, they were often abused. [T2C: 92, 4]
3. B Though Lucie Manette does not know anything about her
birth country, she derived from it the ability to make much
of little means. Her home is decorated with many simple,
but well‐adorned, things. [T2C: 94, 8]
4. A The "best" room in the Manette house is Lucie's room, full
of her birds, flowers, books, desk, work‐table, and water‐
colors. [T2C: 94, 9]
5. B Doctor Manette's consulting‐room is also used as the dining
room. His shoemaker's bench and tools are in his bedroom.
[T2C: 94, 9]
6. E Jarvis Lorry first met Miss Pross at the Royal George Hotel,
where he told Lucie the story of her father's imprisonment.
[T2C: 95, 3]
7. A Miss Pross calls Lucie Manette her "Ladybird." [T2C: 95, 10]
8. E Miss Pross's character, apart from her stature, is shortness.
She is quick to anger. [T2C: 95, 12]
9. B Miss Pross says she is put out by Lucie because too many
unworthy people are trying to court Lucie, initially saying
that there are dozens, then hundreds, of suitors. [T2C: 95, 16]
10. A Miss Pross says that she and Lucie have lived together since
Lucie was ten years old. [T2C: 95, 21]
11. D Jarvis Lorry believes there is nothing better in the world
than the kind of faithful service of the heart Miss Pross
provides for Lucie Manette. [T2C: 96, 7]
12. C Miss Pross believes her brother Solomon the man most
worthy of Lucie, if only he had not made the mistake of
stealing all of Miss Pross's possessions and leaving her in
poverty. [T2C: 96, 8]
13. A When Jarvis Lorry begins to ask Miss Pross if she imagines
something, she responds, "Never imagine anything. Have
no imagination at all." [T2C: 97, 9]
14. B Miss Pross believes that Doctor Manette does not discuss
the topic of his imprisonment because his initial loss of
himself occurred because of it and he is afraid of losing
himself again. [T2C: 98, 5]
15. E When Lucie discovers her father pacing, his mind returned
to his imprisonment, she walks back and forth with him
until he composes himself. [T2C: 98, 7]
16. D The domestic staff regards Miss Pross as a Sorceress, or
Cinderella's Grandmother, able to take any food ingredients
and turn them into whatever she likes. [T2C: 100, 1]
17. E Miss Pross dines at the Doctor's table on Sundays,
otherwise eating in the servant's quarters or her own room.
[T2C: 100, 2]
18. C When Charles Darnay presents himself at the Manette
household after dinner, Miss Pross is overcome with a "fit
of the jerks" and retires inside the house. [T2C: 101, 2]
19. D A prisoner in the Tower of London wrote DIG on the wall of
his cell, though the writing was unsteady and initially
thought to say D.I.C. However, when the floor was
examined, the ashes of a paper and a bag were found. [T2C:
101, 8]
20. D After Darnay's story about the prisoner in the Tower of
London, Doctor Manette is startled, but blames the rain
and recovers quickly. [T2C: 102, 2]
21. E Mr. Carton joins the Manettes, Mr. Lorry, and Mr. Darnay
during tea‐time. Dickens remarks that the hundreds of
people expected by Miss Pross are still not there, only two
have joined in. [T2C: 102, 6]
22. B Lucie says that she often sits alone in the evening listening
to the echoes of footsteps, imagining them to be the
echoes of all the footsteps coming into her life. [T2C: 103, 8]
23. B When Lucie imagines the footsteps she hears to be the
steps of all the people coming into her life, Carton says,
"There is a great crowd coming one day into our lives, if
that be so." He foreshadows the multitude of
revolutionaries who will soon create an upheaval in the
character's lives. [T2C: 103, 9]
24. A Lorry always retains Jerry Cruncher's services to protect him
from "footpads," highwaymen who rob by foot. [T2C: 104, 3]
25. B Lucie and Carton predict a great number of people entering
their lives. This premonition is ominous and foreboding.
Dickens describes the crowd of people coming with a "rush
and roar, bearing down upon them." [T2C: 103‐104]

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 13
CHAPTER 2.7 MONSEIGNEUR IN TOWN
1. A Monseigneur requires the help of four men, other than the
cook, to drink hot chocolate. 15 This beverage, like modern
hot chocolate, was reserved for the aristocracy because it
was rare and expensive. [T2C: 104, 8]
2. E An escutcheon is a shield displaying a family crest. Dickens
says of Monseigneur, "Deep would have been the blot upon
his escutcheon if his chocolate had been ignobly waited on
by only three men." [T2C: 105, 1]
3. E Monseigneur's "one truly noble idea of general public
business" is to let everything go on as it is. He is primarily
concerned with tending to his own power and wealth. [T2C:
105, 3]
4. A Monseigneur places himself above God, replacing the
pronoun of "the Lord" with "Monseigneur" in a biblical
phrase. [T2C: 105, 3]
5. E Monseigneur allies himself with the Farmer‐General, who is
a tax collector for a French parish The Farmers‐General
were suspected of taking more money from the people
then they sent back to the government. [T2C: 106, 1]
6. C Monseigneur takes his sister from a convent to marry her
off to the Farmer‐General in order to win his favor and his
money. [T2C: 106, 1]
7. D The Farmer‐General's cane is topped with a golden apple.
[T2C: 106, 1]
8. A The guests at Monseigneur's reception are superficial
French aristocrats who have lost touch with reality. They
hold themselves above God, vocation, and parenting. [T2C:
106‐107]
9. A Dress is the "unfailing talisman" that the aristocrats use to
keep everything in the correct places. Everybody at
Monseigneur's party is finely dressed and made up. [T2C: 108,
2]
10. A The axe was reserved for rare executions of the aristocracy.
The guillotine was considered to be an egalitarian
development as it made execution by blade available to all
types of people. 16 [T2C: 108, 2]
11. C The Marquis is angered by Monseigneur's haughtiness.
Before leaving the party he says, "I devote you to the
Devil!" and shakes snuff from his fingers. [T2C: 109, 4]
12. A The Marquis has a hat under his harm and holds a snuff‐box
in his hand while he stands around as the last person at the
party. [T2C: 109, 3]
13. B The Marquis is about 60 years old. [T2C: 109, 6]
14. D The Marquis has a mask‐like face with clearly defined
features and minimal facial expressions. He is well‐dressed
and has a haughty demeanor. [T2C: 109, 6]
15. B The Marquis' carriage driver charges recklessly through the
streets, endangering the commoners who do not have
sidewalks, and ultimately killing a child. [T2C: 111, 3]
15
I am pretty good at consuming chocolate in any form all by myself.‐
Melanie
16
I have never thought of an execution method as egalitarian before,
but I suppose everything is relative.‐Melanie
16. D The Marquis throws coins to the father of the stricken‐child
and Defarge, but yells angrily at the people for not getting
out of the way of his horses. [T2C: 111, 11]
17. B The father of the stricken child is Gaspard, the man who
previously wrote "blood" on the wall of the wine shop. [T2C:
112, 1]
18. B A peasant throws one of the Marquis' coins back into his
carriage, angering him enough to threaten to crush the
person beneath his wheels. [T2C: 112, 7]
19. B The French peasants are compared to rats who creep out of
their holes to look at the spectacle and then return to their
dark holes to sleep close together. [T2C: 113]
20. D Madame Defarge knits while conspicuously watching the
scene with the Marquis' carriage. Dickens says she "knitted
on with the steadfastness of Fate." [T2C: 112‐113]
21. D
22. D
23. A
24. B
25. E

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 14
CHAPTER 2.8 MONSEIGNEUR IN THE COUNTRY
1. E The landscape the Marquis rides through on he way to the
country is sparse, with patches of poor rye, peas, beans,
and coarse vegetables. [T2C: 113, 2]
2. E Four post‐horses and two postilions drive the Marquis'
carriage from Paris to the countryside. [T2C: 114, 1]
3. D The Marquis is covered in a crimson, blood‐like light from
the sunset during his ride to the countryside. [T2C: 114, 2]
4. B The Marquis sees a church‐tower, a windmill, a forest, and
a prison during his travels to the country. No mention is
made of a courthouse. [T2C: 114, 4]
5. D The village has a massive number of taxes, causing Dickens
to remark that it is a wonder that there is "any village left
unswallowed." [T2C: 114, 5]
6. B The Marquis asks to speak to a "grizzled mender of the
roads" who he saw when coming up the hill and at the top
of the hill. [T2C: 115]
7. E The road mender says that a man swung by the chain of the
drag on the Marquis' carriage. [T2C: 115, 14]
8. C Monsieur Gabelle is the Postmaster as well as a tax official.
[T2C: 116, 12]
9. B The Marquis stops at a burial ground where he sees a cross
and a wooden figure of Jesus that looks "dreadfully spare
and thin." [T2C: 117, 6]
10. E The women in the graveyard asks the Marquis for a grave‐
marker for her husband to differentiate his heap of grass
from all the others. [T2C: 118, 9]
11. C The Marquis initially does not seem to understand the
petition of the woman at the graveyard, asking what she
expects from him. When she pleas for a grave‐marker for
her husband he acts disinterested and drives away without
response. [T2C: 118]
12. E In Greek Mythology, the Furies are deities who personify
the anger of the dead. The Marquis' brisk carriage ride is
"escorted by the Furies." [T2C: 118, 10]
13. B Dickens says the road mender is nothing without the aid of
his blue cap. [T2C: 118, 11]
14. E The Marquis asks for "Monsieur Charles" when he arrives
home, but Darnay is not yet there. [T2C: 119, 2]
15. C Two postilions drive the Marquis' four horses to the
countryside. [T2C: 114, 1]
16. E When the Marquis asks Gabelle to look for the alleged thief
on his carriage, Gabelle says that he is flattered to attend to
the Marquis' orders. [T2C: 116, 15]
17. E The Marquis' usually reckless carriage is slowed to a "foot
pace" by a steep hill. [T2C: 117, 5]
18. E The woman at the graveyard says that her husband, and
many others, are dying of want. The Marquis is unmoved by
the plight of the peasants. [T2C: 118, 7]
19. D The Marquis appears selfish, disinterested in the painful
lives of the people in his village or those in the city. He
ignores peoples' petitions and tries to buy off those he
hurts as though they are merchandise. [T2C: 115‐118]
20. D During his travels, the Marquis shows more interest in the
alleged thief on his carriage than he does in the peasants
over whom he rules. [T2C: 113‐119]
21. D
22. B
23. D
24. A
25. D

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 15
CHAPTER 2.9 THE GORGON'S HEAD
1. E The Marquiz' chateau is a "heavy mass of a building" with
the court‐yard, staircases, balustrades, urns, flowers, and
statues all made of stone. [T2C: 119, 4]
2. A A Gorgon is one of three sisters in Greek mythology with
snakes for hair. Anyone who looks upon them is turned to
stone. [T2C: 119, 4]
3. E The Marquis' chateau is two centuries old. [T2C: 119, 4]
4. E As the Marquis walks from his carriage to his chateau he
hears the howling of an owl, as though it is scolding him for
disturbing the quietness of the night. [T2C: 119, 5]
5. E The Marquis' hallway is grimly decorated with old boar‐
spears, knives, swords, riding‐whips, and riding‐rods. [T2C: 119,
6]
6. B The chateau has four towers that resemble candle‐
extinguishers. This may be symbolic of the Marquis himself
being extinguished. [T2C: 120, 2]
7. D Charles Darnay is the Marquis' nephew, though he
renounces his family ties. [T2C: 121, 6]
8. B The Marquis receives Darnay in a "courtly manner." He is
polite, but not overly warm or welcoming. [T2C: 121, 8]
9. C Darnay believes that if his uncle was not in disgrace with
the Court he would have been sent a letter de cachet,
imprisoning him indefinitely without a trial. [T2C: 122, 13]
10. D The Marquis' nose is the only part of his mask‐like face that
ever betrays his emotions. The rest of his expression
remains constant. [T2C: 122, 4]
11. E The Marquis says that a man was poniarded, or stabbed, for
an "insolent delicacy respecting his daughter." This refers to
the feudal practice of sleeping with a bride before the
husband does in consummating the marriage. [T2C: 123, 3]
12. E Darnay believes his family name is the most detested in all
of France. [T2C: 123, 5]
13. E The Marquis tells his nephew, "Repression is the only
lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery,
my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long
as this roof shuts out the sky." [T2C: 124, 4]
14. D Darnay says his mother's last request was for him to right
his family's wrongs. [T2C: 125, 2]
15. D When the Marquis urges his nephew to accept his "natural
destiny," Darnay instead renounces his ties to his family
and France. [T2C: 125, 8]
16. B Darnay tells his uncle that he plans to support himself in the
way that others of his countrymen do, by working. [T2C: 126, 8]
17. C The Marquis asks Darnay if he knows a Doctor and his
daughter who have found refuge in England. When Darnay
confirms that he does, the Marquis smiles mysteriously and
bids him goodnight. [T2C: 126‐127]
18. B The Marquis, laying dead in his bed, looks as though the
Gorgon saw him in the night and added him as a stone face
in the building's collection of stone figures. [T2C: 130, 1‐3]
19. D The note left by the Marquis' murderer reads, "Drive him
fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques." It is attached to the
Marquis by a knife driven through his heart. It is later
revealed that Gaspard murders the Marquis to avenge the
death of his child. [T2C: 130, 4]
20. B Darnay believes his family name to be the most detested in
France. The Marquis tells him, "Detestation of the high is
the involuntary homage of the low." [T2C: 123, 6]
21. B
22. D
23. D
24. C
25. E

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 16
CHAPTER 2.10 TWO PROMISES
1. E One year passes between the chapter in which the Marquis
is killed and that in which Darnay confesses his love for
Lucie Manette. [T2C: 130, 5]
2. C Darnay works as a French Tutor in England as he is familiar
with the language and literature of his home country. He is
a Tutor, rather than a Professor, because modern languages
were not officially taught in universities at the time. [T2C: 130,
5]
3. D Charles Darnay falls in love with Lucie Manette during his
trial, which he refers to as "the hour of his danger." [T2C: 131,
4]
4. C Charles Darnay chooses to speak with Doctor Manette
about his affection for Lucie at a time when she will be
running errands with Miss Pross. [T2C: 132, 1; 132, 6]
5. B Charles Darnay tells Doctor Manette that he loves his
daughter "fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly." He
asks Doctor Manette to recall his own love and let it speak
to Darnay's feelings. [T2C: 133, 14]
6. C Darnay tries to keep his feelings for Lucie inside because he
does not want to get in between her and her father, but
can only bear it in silence for so long before he must tell
Doctor Manette. [T2C: 135, 1]
7. D Darnay does not ask for guidance or help in telling Lucie
about his feelings. He asks if Lucie has other suitors, but not
that Manette keep them away. He requests only that
Manette not urge Lucie against him if she asks for her
father's opinion. [T2C: 136‐137]
8. B Doctor Manette tells Darnay that the state of his daughter's
heart is a mystery to him. He describes mysteries that arise
out of close love as "subtle and delicate, and difficult to
penetrate." [T2C: 136, 12]
9. A Darnay attempts to tell Doctor Manette his original name,
but Manette makes him promise to wait until asked to tell
this secret. [T2C: 137, 10]
10. B Doctor Manette asks Darnay to wait until the morning of his
marriage, if his relationship with Lucie prospers, before
revealing the secret of his original family name. [T2C: 138, 5]
11. B When Lucie arrives home from her errands with Miss Pross,
she is startled to find her father making shoes in his
bedroom. [T2C: 138, 10]
12. B The world of man, Dickens says, has invariably gone in the
way of the love of a woman. Charles Darnay is no different
as he falls for Lucie Manette. [T2C: 131, 3]
13. C Doctor Manette is described as energetic, resolute,
vigorous, and firm of purpose. Though he is sometimes
fitful and sudden, as well, this is less common than it was
after he returned home from imprisonment. [T2C: 132, 2]
14. B Throughout Darnay's confession of love for Lucie, his
treatment of Doctor Manette is deferential. He truly
respects Manette and seeks his approval. [T2C: 133, 6]
15. B When Darnay mentions Manette's love for his wife,
Manette cries as though in physical pain. The sound
continues to ring in Darnay's ears. [T2C: 133, 15‐17]
16. A
17. C
18. C
19. B
20. C
21. C
22. B
23. B
24. B
25. C

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 17
CHAPTER 2.11 A COMPANION PICTURE
1. D Sydney Carton applies wet towels to his head to help his
headaches and hangovers. [T2C: 139, 3]
2. E Stryver and Carton work extra hours to complete their
paperwork before the end of the legal term. When Stryver
discusses his plans to marry, the two are still at work at
5:00 A.M. [T2C: 140, 4]
3. C Stryver wants Carton to guess who he is going to marry.
However, after a long night's work, Carton tells him, "If you
want me to guess, you must ask me to dinner." [T2C: 140, 4]
4. E Stryver believes he is more agreeable than Carton, and thus
knows better how to get along with women. [T2C: 140, 11]
5. B Stryver tells Carton that he is ashamed of Carton's
moroseness at the Manette's house. [T2C: 140, 13]
6. B Stryver makes his unhappiness with Carton known through
the use of a number of names, calling him an insensible
dog, a devilish ill‐conditioned fellow, disagreeable, and
incorrigible, among others. [T2C: 140‐141]
7. C Stryver thinks that Carton might be uncomfortable about
Stryver's plans to marry Lucie because of his previous
description of the woman as a golden‐haired doll. [T2C: 141, 9]
8. D Stryver says that he has made up his mind to marry Lucie in
order to please himself because he can afford to do so. [T2C:
142, 2]
9. C Stryver tells Carton that he should find a woman to marry
who has property. [T2C: 142, 8]
10. E Stryver suggests that Carton finds somebody to marry so
that he can be taken care of, regardless of whether he
enjoys or understands women's society. [T2C: 142, 8]
11. E Carton is outwardly approving of Stryver's plan to marry
Lucie, acting calm as Stryver continues to insult Carton's
own prospects of marriage. [T2C: 142, 3‐5]
12. C Stryver is extremely arrogant in his discussion of marriage
with Carton, presuming that he can marry Lucie before
discussing the matter with her, and harshly demeaning
Carton. [T2C: 141‐142]
13. B Unlike Darnay, who is a romantic, Stryver views marriage as
a practical way to have a pleasant home and the
respectability of a wife. His views were typical in the
Victorian era. [T2C: 142, 6]
14. D On the same day as Darnay reveals his feelings for Lucie
Manette, Stryver informs Carton of his plans to marry Lucie.
[T2C: 139, 1]
15. E When Stryver asks Carton his thoughts about Stryver's
plans to marry Lucie, Carton's responses are sarcastic.
However, Stryver misses the sarcasm and accepts them as
supportive and approving. [T2C: 139‐143]
16. D
17. E
18. C
19. B
20. A
21. E
22. A
23. A
24. C
25. B

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 18
CHAPTER 2.12 THE FELLOW OF DELICACY
1. D Stryver views his courtship as a court case with clear
evidence in his favor. [T2C: 143, 3]
2. E Stryver considers taking Lucie to Vauxhall Gardens or
Ranelagh, two popular public amusement parks. [T2C: 143, 4]
3. C On his way to propose to Lucie, Stryver stops at Tellson's
Bank to speak with Lorry about his plans. [T2C: 144, 1]
4. B Stryver always seems too large for any space. His presence
in Tellson's is overwhelming, causing others to look at him
as though he is pushing them up against the wall. [T2C: 144, 3]
5. C Lorry, and other Tellson's employees, have a pecular, self‐
abnegating handshake as though they represent Tellson
and Co. [T2C: 144, 4]
6. B Lorry looks at Stryver dubiously when he reveals his plans
to propose to Lucie. [T2C: 145, 1]
7. E Mr. Lorry tells Stryver that he would not propose without
first knowing if he the venture will be successful, suggesting
that Stryver wait until Lorry speaks with the Manettes
about the proposal. [T2C: 146, 1]
8. E Lorry is protective of Lucie, telling Stryver that he will not
allow anyone to speak disrespectfully about her. [T2C: 146, 5‐7]
9. C Stryver is vexed by Lorry's advice about waiting to propose
to Lucie. He cannot conceive of Lucie not wanting to marry
him. [T2C: 147, 5]
10. A When Lorry arrives at Stryver's chambers after visiting with
the Manettes, Stryver appears preoccupied and surprised
to see Lorry there. [T2C: 148, 7]
11. C When Lorry asks the Manettes about Stryver's proposal of
marriage, they tell him that they would not accept the
offer. [T2C: 149, 2]
12. E Stryver acts uninterested in Lucie Manette when Lorry
informs him that the Manettes will not accept his marriage
proposal. He encourages Lorry to forget all about the
incident. [T2C: 149]
13. D Stryver makes Lucie out to be an empty‐headed, foolish
woman for rejecting his offer of marriage. He says that
others have made the same mistake and wound up
penniless and obscure. [T2C: 149, 7]
14. B Lorry and Stryver are character foils who highlight each
other's personalities through their many differences. [T2C:
143‐150]
15. D In anticipation of Lucie's rejection, Stryver tells himself that
he can escape embarrassment by putting Lucie in the
wrong. [T2C: 148, 6]
16. C
17. D
18. C
19. E
20. D
21. B
22. C
23. D
24. C
25. A

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 19
CHAPTER 2.13 THE FELLOW OF NO DELICACY
1. C Sydney Carton often wanders Soho, the Manette's
neighborhood, when unable to sleep at night. [T2C: 150, 3]
2. D Lucie feels uneasy around Carton, feeling somewhat
embarrassed when he goes to meet with her in her home.
[T2C: 151, 1]
3. D Carton tells Lucie, with tears in his eyes, that it is too late
for him to live a better life. He anticipates that his life will
only get worse. [T2C: 131, 8]
4. A Carton is thankful that Lucie does not return his love
because he would bring her misery, disgrace her, and pull
her down with him. [T2C: 152, 3]
5. E Carton compares his striving toward a better future with a
dream that ends with no result, leaving the dreamer asleep
where he began. [T2C: 152, 6]
6. D In the month of August, Carton goes to Lucie Manette's
home to declare his hopeless love for her. [T2C: 150, 4]
7. D Carton views Lucie as the "last dream of [his] soul." She
stirs up feelings of remorse and inspires him to hope for a
better life. [T2C: 152, 6]
8. D Lucie is tearful while trying to convince Carton that she
might be able to repay his confidence and help turn him
toward good. [T2C: 152‐153]
9. C Carton promises Lucie that he will sacrifice anything,
including his life, for her and those close to her. This
foreshadows his ultimate sacrifice to save Darnay from
execution. [T2C: 154, 5]
10. E Carton refers to himself as a profligate, or an immoral
person. [T2C: 151, 3]
11. A Carton uses a metaphor to poetically compare himself with
a heap of ashes transformed by Lucie into a fire. 17 [T2C: 153, 1]
12. A Carton makes several supplications, or requests, of Lucie.
He asks that she keep their meeting a secret, believe in the
truth of his words, and remember that there is someone
who will give anything for her. [T2C: 154, 2‐4]
13. A Carton offers his life for Lucie, or one she loves. Carton,
who resembles Darnay in appearance and affection for
Lucie, trades places with him later in order to save him
from execution. Carton's promise of sacrifice is an example
of foreshadowing what is to come later in the novel. 18 [T2C:
154, 4]
14. C Dickens titles the chapters about Stryver and Carton
confessing their love for Lucie "The Fellow of Delicacy" and
"The Fellow of No Delicacy." These titles are ironic because
the characters appear just the opposite of what the titles
imply. [T2C: 143, 150]
17 Litotes are my favorite literary devices. I always remember what they
are because of a vivid lesson from my first decathlon coach. She shut off
all the lights in the room, leaving the team in pitch‐black darkness, and
told us it was "not light," another way of saying "light out." Light out
sounds like litote, which a way of understating something by denying its
opposite.‐Melanie
18 Psittacism is parrot‐like speech. I think it is also my favorite new
word.‐Melanie
15. C Sydney Carton compares himself to someone who died at a
young age with all their life before him. He feels as though
he has the potential for a much better life, but will never
live it. [T2C: 151, 15]
16. A
17. A
18. A
19. B
20. C
21. B
22. A
23. B
24. E
25. A

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 20
CHAPTER 2.14 THE HONEST TRADESMAN
1. D Jerry Cruncher, while sitting outside Tellson's watching
processions of people, is compared to a heathen who
spends centuries staring at one stream. [T2C: 155, 3]
2. A A single mourner travels in Roger Cly's funeral procession
until the protesting mob tries to pull him from his coach.
[T2C: 156, 8]
3. A The hearse, coach, and mourner involved in Roger Cly's
funeral procession are all described as dingy. [T2C: 156, 8]
4. B Protesters shout, "Spies!" at Roger Cly's mourning coach.
Cly is a convicted spy who testified again Darnay at his trial
for treason. [T2C: 157, 2]
5. A Typical clothing for a mourner included a hat with a
hatband, the size of which varied relative to the
relationship with the deceased, a white handkerchief, and a
black cloak. Little or no jewelry was worn because it was
considered too ostentatious for such a somber occasion.
[T2C: 157, 10]
6. B Dickens uses the funeral procession to illustrate the
extreme inhumanity of mobs, a theme that reoccurs more
violently later in the novel. Dickens writes that tradesmen
even closed their shops because a crow "stopped at
nothing, and was a monster much dreaded." [T2C: 156‐159]
7. A When the undertakers try to fight off the protesters who
take over the mourning coach, they are threated with
immersion in the nearby river, causing them to give up
quickly. [T2C: 158, 1]
8. B Cly's "remodeled procession" consists of a chimney‐sweep
driving the hearse, a pieman and cabinet minister driving
the hearse, and a bear‐leader adding ornamentation in the
street. [T2C: 158, 1]
9. A Cly's funeral procession makes its final stop as the old
church of Saint Pancras. [T2C: 158, 2]
10. D After disposing of Roger Cly's body, one of the protersters
suggests impeaching passers‐by as spies. This harassment
quickly evolves into a larger riot that involves destruction of
property and plundering of goods. When the mob gets
word that Guards are coming, the crowd quickly dissipates.
[T2C: 158, 3]
11. C Jerry Cruncher does not partake in the riotous activity after
the funeral. He stays at the churchyard to speak with the
undertakers, spokes a pipe, and then goes to speak with a
surgeon before returning to Tellson's before closing. [T2C: 159,
3]
12. C Cruncher commonly has trouble pronouncing the letter "v,"
saying "wenturs" and "aggerawayter" instead of "ventures"
and "aggravator." [T2C: 159, 5]
13. A Jerry Cruncher often beats his wife for allegedly praying
against him if his night work as a grave robber goes wrong.
[T2C: 159, 5]
14. C Jerry Cruncher tells his wife and son that he is going fishing
at night when he is, in fact, grave robbing. [T2C: 160, 8]
15. D When Young Jerry Cruncher asks if he'll have fish from his
father's fishing trip, Jerry Cruncher tells him that if he does
not bring any home there will be "short commons," or
minimal food, the next day. [T2C: 160, 12]
16. A Cruncher tells his wife that her first duty as a mother is to
"blow her boy out." This expression referred to feeding, but
may have been anachronistic, not coming into popularity
until after the events of the novel took place. [T2C: 161, 2]
17. B Jerry Cruncher does not leave his home to go grave robbing
until one in the morning. 19 [T2C: 161, 4]
18. B The Crunchers live in a lodging house where many people
rent room and the door is left ajar all night. Young Jerry
does not worry about getting back into his home when he
follows his father out at night. [T2C: 161, 5]
19. D Izaak Walton is the author of a fishing manual. Dickens'
allusion to a disciple of Walton is a sarcastic reference to
Cruncher's fishing alibi. [T2C: 161, 6]
20. A Jerry Cruncher tells his wife that if he brings home meat or
beer, she should partake in them. He says, "When you go to
Rome, do as Rome does. Rome will be a ugly customer to
you, if you don't. I'm your Rome, you know." [T2C: 160, 14]
21. D Two men join Cruncher on the road as he walks from his
home to Roger Cly's gravesite. [T2C: 162, 2]
22. C Young Jerry runs home from the graveyard, thinking the
coffin is chasing after him in "a spectral sort of race." He
envisions the coffin like a swollen kite missing its tail. [T2C:
163, 1]
23. D Young Jerry tells his father he wants to be a Resurrection‐
Man when he grows up. His father encourages him to
develops his talents and not say more than necessary to
anybody. [T2C: 165, 9]
24. D When Young Jerry wakes up, he sees his father beating his
mother, as had been promised if the grave robbing
excursion did not go well. [T2C: 163, 3]
25. A Cly's funeral scene and the subsequent grave robbery are
intended to be satirical tableaux. They do not advance the
plot or serve much dramatic purpose, but they descriptively
illustrate the themes of death and mob mentality that
persist throughout the novel. [T2C: 155‐165]
19 It seems like everyone in this book is up at all hours of the night. I had
no idea the 18th century was such a nocturnal time, even in the absence
of electricity.‐Melanie

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 21
CHAPTER 2.15 KNITTING
1. A Defarge brings the road mender, who previously saw
someone hanging from the Marquis' carriage, to the wine
shop. He refers to the man as Jacque, indicating that he is
one of the revolutionaries. [T2C: 167, 5]
2. C Five "Jacques" meet in the garret to discuss Gaspard's
execution for killing the Marquis. [T2C: 168, 4]
3. B The mender of roads recognizes Gaspard by his "tall figure."
[T2C: 168, 12]
4. B The road mender describes Gaspard's capture vividly, as if
he were there in the moment. [T2C: 170, 1]
5. E The soldiers take Gaspard straight to the prison, the entire
village looking on as the prison gate swallows him. [T2C: 170, 4]
6. A The men in Degarge's garret are compared to a tribunal, an
ancient type of judicial body. [T2C: 170, 7]
7. C Petitions about Gaspard's insanity following the death of his
child are presented to the King, and the villagers believe
that Gaspard will be spared execution despite his sentence.
[T2C: 171, 2]
8. C Gaspard is executed as a parricide because the Marquis was
viewed as the father of his tenants. A parricide is the killing
of a parent or other reverenced person in a parental
position, commonly a ruler. [T2C: 172, 1]
9. A A gallows forty feet high is built near the fountain for
Gaspard's execution. [T2C: 172, 6]
10. A The Jacques calls for the extermination of the entire
aristocracy, particularly the Evremondes, after Gaspard is
executed for the Marquis' murder. [T2C: 174, 4]
11. D Defarge says, "It would be easier for the wakest poltroon
that lives, to erase himself from existence, than to erase
one letter of his name or crimes from the knitted register of
Madame Defarge." A poltroon is a coward. [T2C: 174, 8]
12. B Madame Defarge knits the registry of those the
revolutionaries decide must be executed. Her husband has
great confidence in her ability to decipher her stitches and
symbols. [T2C: 174, 8]
13. E When the road mender wants to see the King and Queen,
one of the Jacques questions whether that is a good sign.
Defarge responds, "Jacques, judiciously show a cat milk, if
you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his
natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day." [T2C:
174, 12]
14. D The road mender is terrified at the sight of Madame
Defarge. He believes it impossible to predict what she
might do next, convincing himself that she might pretend
she saw him murder someone. [T2C: 175, 1 ]
15. A The mender of roads joins the Defarges on a trip to see the
King and Queen in Versailles. The road mender is not
pleased that Madame Defarge goes on the trip, finding her
knitting disconcerting. [T2C: 175, 2]
16. A Madame Defarge tells an inquisitive stranger that she is
knitting shrouds, which are clothes used to wrap bodies for
burial. [T2C: 175, 8]
17. B The road mender, caught up in the excitement of seeing
royalty, shouts out "Long live the King, Long live the Queen,
Long live everybody and everything!" Defarge is pleased, as
this display will give the aristocracy false confidence and
bring them to a faster end. [T2C: 175, 9]
18. B Madame Defarge patronizes the road mender, who she
believes "would shout and shed tears for anything if it
made a show and a noise." [T2C: 176, 6]
19. C Madame Defarge compares the French royalty to dolls and
birds to be plucked at, encouraging the road mender to
destroy them for his own advantage. [T2C: 177, 4]
20. B Madame Defarge is single‐minded in her pursuit of revenge
against the aristocracy. She spends all her time focused on
knitting the registry of those awaiting execution. [T2C: 174‐177 ]
21. E
22. E
23. C
24. C
25. D

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 22
CHAPTER 2.16 STILL KNITTING
1. B The policeman who stops the Defarges on their return to
Saint Antoine is a Jacques. He informs them that another
spy has been commissioned for their quarter. [T2C: 178, 5]
2. E Madame Defarge adds John Barsad to her registry after
finding out that he will be spying in her neighborhood. [T2C:
178, 6‐9]
3. B Madame Defarge knots her money into a chain inside her
handkerchief to keep it safe during the night. [T2C: 179, 8]
4. E Defarge worries that the revolution will take such a long
time that he will not live to see the triumph. His wife
encourages him, saying that it is good enough that they
shall have helped. [T2C: 180]
5. B Madame Defarge criticizes her husband's need to see his
victim and opportunity to sustain his work. She tells him
that he should sustain himself without that, instead
readying himself for the right time. [T2C: 181, 6]
6. B When Madame Defarge sees a new figure entering the
wine shop she pins a rose in her head‐dress. The other
customers stop talking and slowly leave the shop. [T2C: 181, 9]
7. E Madame Defarge tells Barsad that she knits simply for
pastime, but that if she finds a use for it one day, she will
use it. [T2C: 182, 14]
8. C Madame Defarge informs Barsad that she does not think
about others, she stays busy enough focusing on how she
and her husband will live. [T2C: 183, 11]
9. E Barsad first refers to Ernest Defarge as "Jacques," trying to
earn his trust. Defarge deflects this maneuver and tells
Barsad that he must be mistaken as his name is Ernest
Defarge. [T2C: 184, 6]
10. D Barsad informs the Defarges that Lucie Manette is engaged
to Charles Darnay. They have not had correspondence with
the Manettes since Doctor Manette was taken from their
garret. [T2C: 185, 15]
11. B John Barsad shows great sympathy for Gaspard, trying to
ferret out Madame Defarge's feelings about the execution.
Defarge tells him that Gaspard paid the price for his crime.
[T2C: 183, 13]
12. A Dickens connects the French women's knitting with the
hunger the fuels the revolution, saying that knitting is a
"mechanical substitute for eating and drinking" and keeps
their stomachs from feeling more "famine‐pinched." [T2C: 187,
5]
13. B Dickens alludes to the group of French women who knitted
during executions, saying that the women with whom
Defarge knits are "closing in around a structure yet unbuilt,
where they were to sit knitting, knitting, counting dropping
heads." [T2C: 188, 1]
14. E Ernest Defarge grows depressed over the length of time
required for the revolution. He says, "It does not take a long
time to strike a man with lightening." His wife responds,
asking him, "How long does it take to make and store the
lightning?" [T2C: 180, 5]
15. E John Barsad is about 40‐years‐old, five foot nine, with dark
hair and complexion. His face is thin and long and his nose
has an inclination toward the left cheek. Defarge makes a
pun that Barsad's expression is sinister, meaning not only
that it looks evil, but that it lies toward the left side of the
body. [T2C: 179, 6]
16. C John Barsad is English, which Madame Defarge perceives by
his accent. [T2C: 186, 1]
17. E Ernest Defarge hopes that Charles Darnay will stay out of
France, for Lucie's sake, because his name is knitted on the
registry of those to be killed. [T2C: 186, 11]
18. B Madame Defarge remains composed throughout John
Barsad's visit to the wine shop. Despite his repeated
attempts to pry information from her, she reveals nothing.
[T2C: 182‐186]
19. D When the people leave the wine shop in order to avoid
Barsad, Madame Defarge tells him that business is very bad
because the people are so poor. [T2C: 183, 7]
20. D Barsad drinks a couple glasses of cognac and water while
spying at the Defarge's shop. He remarks that the cognac is
very good, but Madame Defarge does not believe his
compliment., though she says the cognac is flattered. [T2C:
182, 5]
21. E
22. C
23. A
24. C
25. A

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 23
CHAPTER 2.17 ONE NIGHT
1. C Lucie tells her father that she will remain consecrated to
him, and that she would be unhappy if her marriage
separated her from by even a few streets. [T2C: 189, 1]
2. D Doctor Manette is cheerful about his daughter's wedding,
telling her that his happiness would not be complete
without hers. [T2C: 189, 5]
3. B Doctor Manette asks his doctor how he could be happy if
she was not, assuring her that he is pleased about her
impending marriage. [T2C: 189, 9]
4. A Doctor Manette refers to his imprisonment as "the dark
part of my life," but is glad that it did not cast its shadow on
Lucie. [T2C: 190, 1]
5. B Doctor Manette tells Lucie that he used to stare at the
moon from his prison window, imagining how many lines
he could draw across it in each direction. [T2C: 190, 3]
6. D Doctor Manette imagined Lucie growing up without any
knowledge of him, his place in her life completely blank.
[T2C: 191, 1]
7. E Doctor Manette tries to anatomise, or dissect, his
imprisoned condition in order to explain it to Lucie. [T2C: 191,
8]
8. A Doctor Manette tells his daughter that he is happier with
her than he ever could have imagined in prison. [T2C: 192, 4]
9. B The only person invited to Lucie's marriage is Mr. Lorry. [T2C:
192, 6]
10. E Miss Pross is Lucie's only bridesmaid. [T2C: 192, 6]
11. E Lucie and Darnay live in the upper rooms of the Manette's
home, where an apocryphal lodger formerly lived. They do
not want to change their place of residence. [T2C: 192, 6]
12. C The Manette's upper rooms belonged to a fictitious
invisible lodger before Lucie and Darnay make use of them.
[T2C: 192, 6]
13. C Doctor Manette, Lucie, and Miss Pross are the only ones at
the dinner table the night before Lucie's wedding. Charles is
off on a "loving little plot." [T2C: 192, 7]
14. C At three o'clock, the morning of her wedding, Lucie watches
her father sleeping quietly before returning to her bed. [T2C:
193, 1]
15. B Lucie prays that she will stay as true to her father as "her
love aspired to be, and as his sorrows deserved." [T2C: 193, 3]
16. B
17. C
18. E
19. C
20. E
21. A
22. B
23. C
24. B
25. B

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 24
CHAPTER 2.18 NINE DAYS
1. D Miss Pross cannot view Lucie's wedding as an event of
absolute bliss because her brother Solomon is not the
groom. She believes her brother to be the only man worthy
of Lucie's affection. [T2C: 193, 4]
2. D When Lorry speculates on the possibility of having had a
wife, Miss Pross tells him that he was a bachelor in his
cradle and that he was designed to be a bachelor before
being put in his cradle. [T2C: 194, 9]
3. D Lucie and Darnay will be gone on their honeymoon in
Warwickshire for a fortnight, or fourteen days. [T2C: 194, 12]
4. E Darnay and Lucie plan to spend a fornight of their
honeymoon alone together in Warwickshire, a county
northwest of London. [T2C: 194, 12]
5. A Doctor Manette plans to meet the married couple for a
two‐week trip in Wales. [T2C: 194, 12]
6. D When Doctor Manette emerges from his private meeting
with Darnay, he appears completely pale, but composed.
[T2C: 195, 2]
7. A As he promised, Charles Darnay meets with Doctor
Manette before the wedding to tell Manette his true family
name and the reasons behind his emigration to England.
[T2C: 195, 2]
8. E Doctor Manette, distressed from his conversation with
Charles before the wedding, experiences a relapse in which
he makes shoes and cannot recall the names of those
around him. [T2C: 196, 6]
9. A When Doctor Manette relapses, Lorry takes his first ever
leave from Tellson's in order to watch him closely. [T2C: 198, 1]
10. E Doctor Manette relapses for nine days after Lucie's
wedding. He makes shoes and is generally unresponsive to
Mr. Lory and Miss Pross. [T2C: 199, 7]
11. A Mr. Lorry repeatedly asks Doctor Manette if he would like
to go out, ensuring him that he is in a free place and can
leave as he chooses. [T2C: 198, 5]
12. A Lorry and Pross tell Doctor Manette's patients that he is not
feeling well in order to avoid revealing his relapse. [T2C: 197, 9]
13. D Doctor Manette's manner during his relapse is mechanical
and submissive. [T2C: 197, 6]
14. C Miss Pross tells Lucie that her father is away professionally
in order to keep his relapse a secret. [T2C: 197, 9]
15. B Jarvis Lorry holds Lucie and gives her a kiss with a "genuine
tenderness and delicacy which, if such things be old‐
fashioned, were as old as Adam" before she is wed to
Charles Darnay. [T2C: 194, 12]
16. B
17. A
18. C
19. C
20. B
21. E
22. A
23. D
24. B
25. D

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 25
CHAPTER 2.19 AN OPINION
1. B When Doctor Manette wakes up from his relapse, he
believes it is the day after Lucie's wedding. [T2C: 201, 2]
2. A Shoemaking materials discolor Doctor Manette's hands,
which troubles him when he recovers from his relapse. [T2C:
201, 5]
3. E When Lorry first discovers that Manette has recovered
from his relapse, he and Miss Pross decide to act as usual.
After breakfast, Lorry and Manette speak about the
incident as though it happened to somebody else. [T2C: 201‐
202]
4. C Lorry and Doctor Manette are both described as sagacious
in chapters 18 and 19. Sagacity is shrewdness or
reasonableness. [T2C: 203, 1]
5. E Jarvis Lorry is extremely concerned that Doctor Manette
overworks himself with his reading and medical
experimentation. [T2C: 205, 1]
6. E Doctor Manette believes that a relapse occurred because of
a strong memory of the initial malady, in this case brought
on by his discussion with Darnay. [T2C: 204, 1]
7. C Mr. Lorry's fictional sufferer performed blacksmith's work
during his relapse. Lorry inquires as to whether this
blacksmith should have his tools taken from him. [T2C: 205, 8]
8. C In the 18 th and 19 th century, the word "nice" typically
meant dainty or difficult to please. In the case of Mr. Lorry's
question about taking away Manette's tools, a "nice
question" is one that is delicate and requires some tact. [T2C:
206, 3]
9. D Doctor Manette compares the fear over losing his tools to
the terror of a lost child. [T2C: 206, 4]
10. E Doctor Manette agrees to give up his cobbler's tools for the
sake of his daughter, despite his great resistance to losing
them. [T2C: 207, 2]
11. C Doctor Manette asks that his tools be taken away when he
is absent. They are destroyed after he leaves for his trip to
Wales with Lucie and Darnay [T2C: 207, 2]
12. A Doctor Manette relapses for nine days and spends four
days perfectly recovered from his relapse before going to
join Lucie and her husband on the fourteenth day of their
trip. [T2C: 207, 3]
13. C Mr. Lorry and Miss Pross destroy the shoemaker's tools.
They take apart the bench before burning it, and bury the
remainder of tools, shoes, and leather in the garden. The
two, working secretly by candlelight, appear to be
committing a horrible crime and removing all traces of their
deed. [T2C: 207, 4]
14. C Doctor Manette says that shoemaking "relieves his pain so
much, by substituting the perplexity o the fingers for the
perplexity of the brain, and by substituting, as he became
more practiced, the ingenuity of the hands, for the
ingenuity of mental torture." [T2C: 206, 4]
15. E Doctor Manette, speaking of himself as a fictional sufferer,
says that he dreaded a relapse but thinks it unlikely that he
will experience another. He is pleased that his daughter is
unaware of the relapse. Manette is extremely hesitant
16. E
17. A
18. B
19. D
20. B
21. C
22. A
23. A
24. E
25. B
about giving up his shoemaking tools, but ultimately
decides that it is best to do so for Lucie's sake. [T2C: 202‐207]

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 26
CHAPTER 2.20 A PLEA
1. A Sydney Carton is the firt to offer Lucie and Darnay
congratulations upon their arrival home after the
honeymoon. [T2C: 207, 5]
2. E When Carton asks Darnay if they can be friends, Darnay
responds that they are already friends. [T2C: 208, 3]
3. D Carton apologizes for his unusual drunkenness after
Darnay's trial. [T2C: 208, 6]
4. E Darnay is quick to forgive Carton's drunken transgressions,
but Carton has trouble believing that Darnay has moved on
so easily. He says, "Oblivion is not so easy to me, as you
represent it to be to you." [T2C: 208, 12]
5. B Carton says that at the time of Darnay's trial, his service
was "mere professional claptrap" and he did not care about
Darnay, but that was purely in the past. [T2C: 209, 1]
6. C Sydney Carton believes Charles Darnay sees him as a
"dissolute dog who has never done any good, and never
will." He also compares himself to unornamental furniture
that is tolerated for its service, but not taken notice of. [T2C:
209, 5]
7. B Carton is extraordinarily self‐effacing in his request for
permission to visit Darnay and Lucy. He describes himself as
a "worthless fellow, and a fellow of such indifferent
reputation." [T2C: 209, 7]
8. B When Carton requests permission to visit Darnay's family,
he says that he will not abuse such permission and will only
avail himself of it four times a year. [T2C: 209, 7]
9. D After Carton's visit, Darnay remarks that Carton is a
"problem o carelessness and recklessness." Dickens says
that Darnay speaks of him "as anybody might who saw him
as he showed himself." [T2C: 210, 1]
10. A Lucie asks her husband to be more considerate and
respectful of Carton, but requests that he not seek more
information from her. [T2C: 210, 9]
11. E Lucie tells Charles that Carton has a wounded heart, rarely
shown to anyone, and that while he is weak in his misery,
he deserves compassion and is capable of good things.
However, she does not believe his character or fortune are
reparable. [T2C: 210, 13; 211, 1‐3]
12. B Lucie is the epitome of innocence. Dickens creates her as a
fairly flat, but perfect, woman. She is compassionate,
thoughtful, faithful, pure, and virtuous. [T2C: 210‐211]
13. B Charles is extremely loving in his relationship with Lucie,
referring to her as his life and the heart that beats for him.
The couple communicates about their problems, each
opinion seemingly receiving an equal weight. [T2C: 210‐211]
14. E Carton tells Darnay that he is "incapable of all the higher
and better flights of men," and that Stryver would affirm
this statement. Darnay tells Carton that he would rather
form his own opinion. [T2C: 209, 3]
15. E Charles Darnay tells Sydney Carton that he is not alarmed
by Carton's earnestness when Carton apologizes for his
drunkenness after the trial. [T2C: 208, 9]
16. D
17. E
18. D
19. A
20. A
21. B
22. E
23. D
24. A
25. A

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 27
CHAPTER 2.21 ECHOING FOOTSTEPS
1. C Lucie often sits in her home listening to the echoes of
footsteps outside. When she becomes pregnant, her
thoughts are invaded by worries over death in childbirth.
During the time of her pregnancy, women frequently died
in childbirth, even when attended to by the best of doctors.
[T2C: 211,8]
2. E Lucie gives birth to a girl and a boy, but the boy dies early
on. In that time, nearly half of the children born died before
the age of five. [T2C: 212, 1‐3]
3. C Little Lucie learns to speak "in the tongues of the Two Cities
that were blended in her life," English and French. [T2C: 213, 1]
4. C Sydney Carton visits the Darnays about a half‐dozen times a
year, earning the affection of Lucie's children. He is the first
stranger to whom little Lucie holds out her arms, and
before Lucie's little boy dies he says, "Poor Carton! Kiss him
for me!" [T2C: 213, 3]
5. C Stryver is compared to a boat engine pushing through
turbid water, with Carton as the boat towed behind in his
wake. [T2C: 213, 4]
6. B Stryver marries a widow with three children and property, a
life he had previously suggested for Sydney Carton. Dickens
says that the children "had nothing particularly shining
about them but the straight hair of their dumpling heads."
[T2C: 213, 4]
7. C Stryver brings his three children to Darnay for tutoring, but
Darnay politely rejects the offer. Stryver is angered by this
rejection and tells his children to "beware the pride of
Beggars, like that tutor‐fellow." [T2C: 214, 1]
8. A Stryver often drunkenly tells his wife and other lawyers that
Lucie tried to "catch" him, but he used his wits to keep
himself from being caught. [T2C: 214, 1]
9. D Doctor Manette believes Lucie to be even more devoted to
him in marriage, and Charles finds that "no cares and duties
seemed to divide her love for him or her help to him."
Darnay asks her, "What is the magic secret, my darling, of
your being everything to all of us, as if there were only one
of us, yet never seeming to be hurried, or have too much to
do?" [T2C: 214, 2]
10. E Little Lucie is six‐years‐old when the French Revolution
begins in 1789. Therefore, she was born in 1783. [T2C: 215, 1‐2]
11. E The French Revolution, which is described as a "great storm
in France with a dreadful sea rising," began on July 14,
1789. [T2C: 214, 2]
12. E The Darnays are married in 1781, and have little Lucie two
years later in 1783. Eight years pass between their marriage
and the beginning of the French Revolution. [T2C: 215, 2]
13. E The French Revolution causes bank customers to be
uneasy. They take their property from France and send it to
England, creating a "run of confidence" upon Tellson's
English branch. [T2C: 215, 3]
14. E Doctor Manette offers to play backgammon with Lorry, but
Lorry refuses, saying he is "not to be pitted" against
Manette that night. [T2C: 215, 10]
15. D Defarge's wine shop is the vortex in the whirlpool of activity
surrounding the storming of the Bastille. The Defarges are
leaders of the revolution, issuing orders and weapons
amongst the crowds. [T2C: 217, 1]
16. D Madame Defarge carries an axe in her hands, in place of her
knitting needles, and keeps a pistol and knife at her waist.
[T2C: 217, 3]
17. D Dickens uses alliteration to create a harsh sound in the
phrase, "Defarge of the wine‐shop at his gun, grown double
hot by the service of Four fierce hours." Consonant sounds
are repeated in the words "gun" and "grown," and "four"
and "fierce." [T2C: 218, 2]
18. D Dickens creates a more tangible impression of the storming
of the Bastille by using onomatopoeia, or words that
imitate a sound. He writes of "bravery without sting, boom,
smash and rattle, and the furious sounding of the living
sea." [T2C: 218, 2]
19. A A parley is a discussion or conference. During the storming
of the Bastille, a white flag of surrender is raised from
within the fortress a parley occurs before Defarge goes
inside the towers. [T2C: 218, 3]
20. E When the Bastille is taken by the revolutionaries, the cry
most taken up is, "The Prisoners!" Seven prisoners are
released from the Bastille. [T2C: 219, 3]
21. C Defarge finds Doctor Manette's initials, "A.M.," carved into
the walls of One hundred and five, North Tower. He also
discovers the words "a poor physician," and a calendar
scratched onto the stone. He does not find anything hidden
inside the wood or straw within the cell. [T2C: 220, 7]
22. D The governor of Saint Antoine is killed at the Hotel de Ville,
or the town hall. [T2C: 221, 6]
23. C Madame Defarge cuts off the governor's head after he is
beaten and stabbed by the large crowd of people
surrounding him. [T2C: 221, 7]
24. D Seven prisoners are released from the Bastille, all appearing
scared and lost amidst the sea of revolutionaries. [T2C: 222, 3]
25. E In contrast with the seven released prisoners, seven guards
are killed and their heads hoised up on pikes "to be left on
guard." [T2C: 222, 3]

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CHAPTER 2.22 THE SEA STILL RISES
1. E The Vengeance serves as Madame Defarge's lieutenant in
leading the revolutionary women. She is the "plump wife of
a starved grocer" and has three children. [T2C: 224, 1]
2. D Defarge wears a red cap, known as a "Phrygian cap." The
caps were worn as symbols of patriotism. [T2C: 224, 5]
3. C Foulon, a wealthy man, said that the starving people should
eat grass. [T2C: 224, 9]
4. E Foulon fakes his own death in order to escape the
revolutionaries. He organized his own funeral to avoid
emigration. [T2C: 224, 13]
5. D Foulon is held prisoner at the Hotel de Ville, the town hall
outside which the governor of Saint Antoine is killed. [T2C: 224,
13]
6. A Foul is described as a "wretched old sinner of more than
threescore years and ten." A score is 20 years, so Foulon is
about 70 during the storming of the Bastille. [T2C: 224, 14]
7. A The Vengeance shrieks and flings her arms about on her
way to kill Foulon, resembling all of the Furies at once. [T2C:
225, 2]
8. B The revolutionary women are "a sight to chill the boldest"
on the way to the murder of Foulon. They lash out in a blind
frenzy, striking at anyone nearby, angry over Foulon's lack
of compassion for their hunger and need. [T2C: 225, 3]
9. D The Defarges, The Vengeance, and Jacques Three are at the
forefront of the mob when going to murder Foulon. [T2C: 226,
1]
10. E A bushel is a measurement of grain or produce. Dickens
refers to "winning of many bushels of words," suggesting
that the crowd at Foulon's murder separates out the
important segments of Madame Defarge's speech for
repetition. [T2C: 226, 3]
11. E Foulon is hanged three times. The first two times the rope
broke, but the third time it was "merciful" and killed him.
[T2C: 227, 1]
12. A After Foulon is hanged, his head is put up on a pike. He is
stuffed with "grass enough in the mouth for all of Saint
Antoine to dance at the sight of." [T2C: 227, 1]
13. E Foulon's son‐in‐law is killed after Foulon. His head and
heart are put up on a pike to keep Foulon company. [T2C: 2]
14. A Viands are articles of food. Though the people of Saint
Antoine have little to eat, Dickens writes that their
companionship brings them some nourishment. [T2C: 228, 1]
15. C The voice of the drum is the only one unchanged by the
"blood and hurry." The other voices grow hoarse from
yelling through the course of the revolution. [T2C: 228, 5]
16. B
17. B
18. C
19. A
20. A
21. C
22. E
23. D
24. B
25. E

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CHAPTER 2.23 FIRE RISES
1. E The road mender's village is desolate, with all of its grass
and crops shriveled and its people poor, miserable, and
worn out. [T2C: 229, 1]
2. A Dickens uses the individual appellation of "Monseigneur" to
represent the aristocracy as a whole. This is an example of
metonymy. [T2C: 229, 2]
3. C Dickens writes, "Monseigneur began to run way from a
phenomenon so low and accountable," referring to the First
Emigration in 1789, when a number of aristocrats fled the
country. [T2C: 229, 2]
4. A The mender of roads spends much of his solitary working
time thinking about his hunger. Dickens remarks that
though the road mender works in the dust, he does not
reflect that "dust he was and to dust he must return." [T2C::
229, 4]
5. D The village fountain is surrounded by "lean kine" brought
there to drink. Kine is an old word for cattle. [T2C: 232, 5]
6. B Gabelle, who sees the villagers out late at night, informs the
church official in charge of the equipment that he might
need to ring the alarm bell, known as the tocsin. [T2C: 232, 5]
7. D Dickens refers to the four figures who burn the Marquis'
chateau as "East, West, North, and South," furthering the
portrayal of the revolution as a force of nature. [T2C: 233, 1]
8. B While the Marquis' chateau burns down, the road mender
and "two hundred and fifty particular friends" stand at the
fountain and watch the fire in the sky. They remark that the
fire is about forty feet tall. [T2C: 233, 2]
9. B The villagers say that the fire from the burning of the
Marquis' chateau rises to about forty feet, the same height
as the gallows used to execute Gaspard earlier in the novel.
[T2C: 233, 2]
10. D The soldiers are asked to help save valuable items from the
fire at the burning chateau, but they are unsympathetic.
They shrug their shoulders and say, "It must burn." [T2C: 233, 4]
11. E Monsieur Gabelle, a tax collector, is named after a pre‐
revolutionary tax on salt. [T2C: 235, 1]
12. D Gabelle is a "Southern man of retaliative temperament."
The "Southern" temperament is stereotypically passionate.
[T2C: 235, 1]
13. E Gabelle climbs up on his roof and hides behind his
chimneys until morning comes and the villagers disperse
from his home. He plans to jump from his parapet and
crush others as he plummets to his death if his house is
broken into. [T2C: 235, 1]
14. A The Marquis' chateau is burned down in the month of July,
showing that the revolution moves quickly to the
countryside after the storming of the Bastille. [T2C: 230, 1]
15. E Dickens writes that villagers light fires in many other
villages, often getting caught and hanged. However, the
killing of some revolutionaries does not prevent the starting
of many other fires elsewhere. The forces of nature steadily
run their course, and the gallows cannot hang enough
revolutionaries to end the fight. The narrator says, "The
altitude of the gallows that would turn to water and quench
16. A
17. C
18. D
19. E
20. D
21. D
22. B
23. D
24. B
25. B
it, no functionary, by any stretch of mathematics, was able
to calculate successfully." [T2C: 235, 3]

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CHAPTER 2.24 DRAWN TO THE LOADSTONE ROCK
1. B Sardanapalus is an Assyrian king known for his very lavish
lifestyle. [T2C: 236, 4]
2. A Chapter 24 jumps ahead three years, to 1792, when the
Monseigneur have scattered. Darnay receives news of
Gabelle's imprisonment and feels it is his duty to rescue
him. [T2C: 237, 1]
3. B Tellson's Bank is Monseigneur's gathering place in London.
Dickens says, "Spirits are supposed to haunt the places
were their bodies most resorted, and Monseigneur without
a guinea haunted the spot where his guineas used to be."
[T2C: 237, 2]
4. A Lorry is sent to Tellson's Paris office to salvage precious
books and papers that might be destroyed if the city was
sacked or burnt down. [T2C: 238, 8]
5. A Jarvis Lorry takes Jerry Cruncher with him to Paris as a
bodyguard. He says that he is used to Jerry from working
with him for so many nights in the past. [T2C: 239, 5]
6. D Dickens compares Stryver's implausible plans for
exterminating the French peasants with the proverb about
killing birds by sprinkling salt on their tales. The birds will
certainly not stay still long enough to be killed. [T2C: 240, 2]
7. D The general opinion of the people at Tellson's is that the
Marquis St. Evremonde is a degenerate, coward who
deserves the wrath of his people. [T2C: 241, 3‐6]
8. B Gabelle is held in the Prison of the Abbaye, a prison famous
for holding many aristocrats during the revolution. It was
destroyed in the 1850s to accommodate changes in the
Paris streets. [T2C: 243, 3]
9. A Gabelle is imprisoned for treason because he allegedly acts
against his people for an emigrant, the Marquis St.
Evremonde. [T2C: 243, 5]
10. A Darnay is driven back to France with the "influence of the
Loadstone Rock," which alludes to a rock with a naturally
magnetic mineral used in compasses. [T2C: 245, 2]
11. E Darnay compares himself to Lorry, calling him the "brave
old gentleman in whom duty was so strong." [T2C: 245, 2]
12. E Darnay writes letters to Lucie and Doctor Manette
explaining his obligation to go to Paris and assuring them
that he is not in any danger and will write when he arrives
safely. [T2C: 246, 15]
13. E Charles Darnay cries out, as he departs for Paris, "For the
love of Heaven, of justice, of generosity, of the honour of
your noble name!" Gabelle also writes this in his letter to
Darnay. [T2C: 247, 2]
14. E Darnay sends Lorry with a verbal message for Gabelle, as a
written message might be too dangerous to take across the
border. He asks Lorry to inform Gabelle that the Marquis St.
Evremonde has received the letter and will come. [T2C: 246, 9]
15. E Darnay realizes, in retrospect, that his renunciation of his
place as the Marquis St. Evremonde was hurried and
incomplete. He feels obligated to return to France to
correct his mistakes. [T2C: 244, 1]
16. D
17. B
18. D
19. E
20. D
21. B
22. D
23. C
24. E
25. B

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CHAPTER 3.1 IN SECRET
1. C Gabelle's letter from prison allows Darnay to get through
many guard‐houses while traveling through Paris. [T2C: 252, 1]
2. D Darnay is required to pay for the escort of two armed
patriots in order to make it to Paris. [T2C: 252, 11]
3. D On the day Darnay leaves England to rescue Gabelle, a
decree passes in France allowing the state to confiscate the
property of emigrants. [T2C: 254, 5]
4. D Darnay, or Evremonde as he is called in France, is 37‐years‐
old when he is imprisoned. [T2C: 256, 7]
5. B Darnay is consigned to La Force Prison, while Gabelle is in
the Prison of the Abbaye. [T2C: 256, 13]
6. E The officer handling Darnay's imprisonment writes the
words, "In secret," on a paper that Defarge bring with him
to the prison. "In secret" means that Darnay is kept in
solitary confinement. [T2C: 257, 1]
7. E Defarge escorts Darnay to prison, inquiring about whether
Darnay is the one who married Lucie, but offering no
assistance. [T2C: 257]
8. A Darnay asks Defarge to convey a message about his
imprisonment to Lorry, who is in Paris at the time. Defarge
responds that he will do nothing for Darnay, his duty is to
his country and people. [T2C: 258, 3]
9. E Darnay's jailer is irritated by another prison, especially in
solitary confinement, when the prison is already "full to
bursting." [T2C: 259, 2‐7]
10. D La Force Prison has the "horrible smell of foul sleep."
Dickens remarks that this noisome smell is present in all
such places that are not taken care of well. [T2C: 259, 6]
11. B Darnay compares his fellow prisoners to ghosts looking at
him with "eyes that were changed by the death they had
died in coming there." [T2C: 260, 4]
12. C Darnay is not permitted to buy pen, ink, and paper in
prison. He is only allowed to purchase food. [T2C: 261, 11]
13. C Darnay's jailer is extremely bloated, as though he had
drowned and filled with water. [T2C: 259, 2]
14. B Darnay's paces out his cell, measuring it at five paces by
four and a half. [T2C: 262, 1]
15. D After being locked away in solitary confinement, Darnay
paces his cell, counting, and talking to himself about Doctor
Manette and the other prisoners. [T2C: 262, 1]
16. D
17. C
18. C
19. A
20. B
21. B
22. D
23. A
24. D
25. E

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CHAPTER 3.2 THE GRINDSTONE
1. D Tellson's Bank is located in the Saint Germain Quarter of
Paris. It is located inside the wing of a large house formerly
owned by the Monseigneur. [T2C: 262, 2]
2. D Dickens says that the Monseigneur had to flee from
revolutionaries, but is the same Monseigneur in his
metempsychosis, or transmigration of the soul. [T2C: 262, 2]
3. D Dickens remarks that if the Paris Tellson's were in London,
it would be driven to the Gazette. This means it would go
bankrupt, resulting in a notice in the London Gazette. He
writes that the Paris branch is distastefully decorated with
orange‐trees in boxes and a whitewashed Cupid over the
counter and the clerks there are not old. [T2C: 263, 2]
4. B Jarvis Lorry occupies rooms in the Bank house while
working at the Paris branch. The other residents, who are
patriots, keep the building safe. [T2C: 264, 1]
5. E Lucie Manette informs Jarvis Lorry that her husband has
been imprisoned in France. [T2C: 265, 9]
6. D Darnay is in prison for about three or four days before Lucie
brings word of it to Lorry. [T2C: 265, 9]
7. E Doctor Manette is respected in France because of his status
as a Bastille prisoner. The patriots allow him to pass
through the barrier and will not do him any harm. [T2C: 265, 14]
8. C The courtyard outside Tellson's contains a throng of about
forty or fifty people sharpening their weapons on the
grindstone. [T2C: 266, 6]
9. B Dickens portrays the grindstone scene as hellish, with the
men turning the grindstone depicted as wild savages and
demons. [T2C: 266, 8]
10. E The people at the grindstone sharpen their weapons in
order to murder the prisoners. Lorry urges Doctor Manette
to use his status to rescue Darnay from La Force Prison
before he is killed there. [T2C: 267, 2]
11. A The people at the grindstone stand with shoulders linked
and shout out, "Live the Bastille prisoner! Help for the
Bastille prisoner in front there! Save the prisoner
Evremonde at La Force!" [T2C: 268, 1]
12. B Everyone sharpening their weapons at the grindstone is
covered in blood. Their clothing and bodies are stained with
the red of blood, and when they finish, the grindstone itself
is red. [T2C: 266, 8]
13. E Lucie waits in a back room while Lorry and Doctor Manette
discuss how to rescue Charles Darnay. She then sleeps and
moans through the night while her father is gone. She is
fearful, and unable to do anything to help, but hopeful for
her husband's rescue. [T2C: 266, 3; 268, 2‐4]
14. B Dickens describes Earth as "the great grindstone," referring
to the grindstone outside Tellson's as "the lesser
grindstone." [T2C: 269, 1]
15. C The grindstone scene is reminiscent of the scene in which
the cask breaks outside Defarge's wine shop. In both, the
people are frenzied, smeared with blood, and inhuman in
their mob mentality. [T2C: 266, 8]
16. D
17. A
18. C
19. B
20. A
21. E
22. E
23. C
24. B
25. B

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NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 33
CHAPTER 3.3 THE SHADOW
1. A Lorry finds another dwelling‐place for Lucie and her
daughter, rather than allowing them to stay at Tellson's,
because he does not want to endanger the business by
harboring the family of an emigrant prisoner. [T2C: 269, 2]
2. C Lorry leaves his bodyguard, Jerry Cruncher, to protect Lucie
and her family at a temporary dwelling near the bank. [T2C:
270, 1]
3. D Defarge, described as a "strongly made man with dark
curling hair, from forty‐five to fifty years of age" delivers
Lorry a note from Doctor Manette. He requests to bring
another note from Charles Darnay to Lucie. [T2C: 270, 11]
4. B Doctor Manette sends Lorry a note that Charles is safe, but
they cannot yet leave the prison. He sends Defarge with a
note for Lucie, as well. [T2C: 270, 11]
5. D Seventeen years pass between Doctor Manette's rescue
from imprisonment and Darnay's imprisonment. [T2C: 271, 2]
6. C The Defarges, The Vengeance, and Jarvis Lorry all visit
Lucie, bringing a note from Charles Darnay. His note tells
her to take courage and kiss little Lucie for him, but not to
answer. [T2C: 271, 1‐6]
7. A Jarvis Lorry tries to appease, or propitiate, Lucie by the tone
and manner of his voice. [T2C: 272, 2]
8. C Miss Pross, not intimated by anybody, calls The Vengeance
"Boldface" and coughs on Madame Defarge. [T2C: 272, 3]
9. D Dickens says that Madame Defarge has a "shadow
attendant" that falls on Lucie and little Lucie, threatening
them both. [T2C: 272, 6]
10. E Lucie asks for Madame Defarge's help in saving her
husband, imploring her as a wife and mother. However,
Madame Defarge says that the wives and mothers she has
seen have had their husbands and fathers kept prisoners
while the woman and children suffered. [T2C: 273, 8]
11. A The Defarges and the Vengeance visit Lucie so that they can
recognize her and protect her from street uprisings. [T2C: 271,
11]
12. D Charles Darnay writes a hopeful note to his wife from
prison, telling her to take courage as he is well and her
father has influence in his favor. [T2C: 271, 8]
13. D Ernest Defarge is described as a "strongly made man with
dark curling hair." He is between 45 and 50‐years‐old at the
time of Darnay's imprisonment. [T2C: 270, 4]
14. A Lucie is found weeping in her temporary domicile when the
Defarges, The Vengeance, and Lorry bring her a note from
her imprisoned husband. [T2C: 271, 7]
15. A Madame Defarge seems to be complimented by Lucie's
admission of fear of her. While Lucie is hopeful about her
husband's status in prison, she worries about the shadow
cast upon her by Madame Defarge. [T2C: 273, 1‐2]
16. D
17. B
18. E
19. D
20. E
21. E
22. D
23. C
24. A
25. A

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NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 34
CHAPTER 3.4 CALM IN STORM
1. A Doctor Manette spends four days with Darnay in prison,
watching as the revolutionaries massacre other prisoners.
[T2C: 274, 4]
2. A Dickens writes Darnay's time in prison during the historic
September Massacres. The revolutionaries kill
approximately 1,100 prisoners during that time. [T2C: 274, 4]
3. C The prison tribunal offers Charles Darnay safe custody
because of Doctor Manette's status as a Bastille prisoner.
[T2C: 275, 1]
4. B Doctor Manette is empowered by his prison experience,
saying that it was not "mere waste and ruin" because it
allows him to restore his daughter's husband, as she once
restored him. [T2C: 276, 1]
5. E Doctor Manette uses his influence with the revolutionaries
to become the physician for three prisons, including La
Force, so that he can keep an eye on Darnay. [T2C: 276, 2]
6. A Doctor Manette visits Darnay in La Force Prison weekly.
Darnay is moved into the general body of prisoners rather
than solitary confinement. [T2C: 2]
7. D Doctor Manette has a sense of pride while living in France
because he is able to offer strength and influence to help
his daughter, who has previously done so much for him.
[T2C: 277, 3]
8. E Jarvis Lorry finds Doctor Manette's sense of pride in France
somewhat curious, but natural and worthy. He think, "take
the lead, my dear friend, and keep it; it couldn't be in better
hands." [T2C: 276, 3]
9. C Dickens refers to the new Republic as the "Republic of
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death." [T2C: 277, 1]
10. E The black flag outside Notre Dame after the execution of
the French king represents danger of foreign attack, as
other European countries are upset by the act of regicide.
[T2C: 277, 1]
11. E King Louis XVI is beheaded on January 21, 1793; his wife is
executed on October 18, 1793. Dickens rounds this to
"eight weary months of imprisoned widowhood and
misery." [T2C: 277, 2]
12. A Dickens says that the guillotine was a popular theme for
jokes. "It was the best cure of headache, it infallibly
prevented the hair from turning grey, it imparted a peculiar
delicacy to the complexion, it was the National Razor which
shaved close: who kissed La Guillotine, looked through the
little window and sneezed into the sack." [T2C: 278, 2]
13. B The guillotine is "worn on breasts from which the Cross was
discarded, and it was bowed down to and believed in where
the Cross was denied." Dickens uses the worshipping of the
guillotine, rather than the cross, to symbolize the
secularization of France during the Reign of Terror. [T2C: 278, 2]
14. C Dickens described the execution of "two‐two friends of high
public mark, twenty‐one living and one dead." The group to
which he refers is the Girondin Party. One member of the
party committed suicide before being beheaded by the
guillotine with the rest of the political faction. [T2C: 278, 3]
15. D Charles Darnay spends one year and three months in
prison. Doctor Manette remains confident throughout that
he will be able to rescue his daughter's husband. [T2C: 279, 1]
16. B
17. E
18. D
19. C
20. E
21. A
22. D
23. B
24. D
25. B

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NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 35
CHAPTER 3.5 THE WOOD‐SAWYER
1. D Lucie wears plain dark dresses, like mourning dresses,
during Darnay's imprisonment. However, she generally
remains pretty and neat. [T2C: 280, 3]
2. B Doctor Manette tells Lucie that Charles is able to see out a
certain window around three in the afternoon on some
days, and she can stand in a certain spot outside so that he
might see her. Lucie goes between two and four every day
to maximize Charles' chances of seeing her. [T2C: 280, 5]
3. C Lucie stands outside the prison, often with little Lucie, for
two hours each day. She arrives and two and leaves at four,
hoping that that Charles will see her at some point in
between, even though she cannot see him. [T2C: 281, 2]
4. A The wood‐sawyer, whose house is near the prison, was
formerly the road mender from the Marquis' village. [T2C: 281,
9]
5. D The wood sawyer, trying to understand what Lucie is doing
near the prison each day, points at the prison and puts his
fingers over his face to represent bars. He peeps through
his fingers "jocosely," meaning humorously or jokingly. [T2C:
281, 9]
6. B The wood‐sawyer calls his saw "Little Guillotine" and "Little
Sainte Guillotine." He appears overly enthusiastic about his
pretend sawing of wooden heads. [T2C: 282, 3]
7. A The wood‐sawyer refers to himself as the "Samson of the
firewood guillotine." Samson is known for having
extraordinary strength, used to combat his enemies. 20 [T2C:
282, 5]
8. D As Lucie must stand near the wood‐sawyer in order to be
seen by Charles, she tries to earn his good will by speaking
with him first and offering him drink‐money. [T2C: 282, 6]
9. B Lucie kisses the prison wall each day before she leaves.
Darnay sees her from the window about once in five or six
times. [T2C: 282, 8]
10. E The revolutionaries dance the Carmagnole near the prison,
frightening Lucie while she stands nearby. [T2C: 284, 1]
11. C Darnay is moved to the Concierge, an old prison adjacent to
the Palais de Justice, where many prisoners spent their last
days before being executed by the guillotine. [T2C: 284, 12]
12. D Darnay sees his wife from the prison window about once in
five or six times, but Lucie willingly stands by the window
daily to preserve that possibility. [T2C: 282, 8]
13. B A decree during the revolution forced everybody to refer to
each other as "citizen" and "citizeness." [T2C: 281, 6]
14. D After Lucie watches the dancing of the Carmagnole outside
the prison, she sees the snow fall quietly and "lay as white
and soft, as if it had never been." The snow represents her
purity and love for Darnay, which Madame Defarge soon
walks by and overshadows. [T2C: 284, 1]
15. D Doctor Manette assures Lucie that nothing can happen to
her husband without his knowledge, and he feels confident
that he will be able to save Darnay. [T2C: 280, 3]
20 Two of my best friends happen to be named Isaiah and Obadiah;
apparently I get along well with people named after biblical characters.‐
Melanie
16. D
17. C
18. B
19. B
20. E
21. B
22. D
23. D
24. C
25. D

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NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 36
CHAPTER 3.6 TRIUMPH
1. C The tribunal consists of five Judges, the Public Prosecutor,
and a jury. [T2C: 286, 1]
2. D Darnay is accused as an emigrant. A decree, passed after his
return to France, demands the life of all emigrants. [T2C: 288, 1]
3. D The court spectators are fickle in their reaction to Darnay.
At first they act impatient to sent him off to be executed,
but upon hearing his relation to the Manettes, they cry in
sympathy. [T2C: 289, 3]
4. A Darnay tells the court that he did not return to France
sooner than at Gabelle's request because he had resigned
his only means of living in France, while he could work at a
tutor of French language and literature in England. [T2C: 289, 6]
5. C Gabelle is released from prison three days before Darnay's
trial, in time to serve as a witness. [T2C: 289, 9]
6. E Darnay's surrender satisfies Gabelle's Jury. They consider all
accusations against him answered for, and release him
from prison three days before Darnay's trial. [T2C: 289, 9]
7. D Doctor Manette is a witness for Darnay at his trial, arguing
in favor of his loyalty to the Manettes and his previous trial
for treason by the English government. Lorry's
corroboration of the trial helps convince the jury of
Darnay's innocence. [T2C: 290, 1]
8. D The five people tried as one after Darnay are all sentenced
to death, indicated by the customary prison sign of a raised
finger. [T2C: 291, 1]
9. A The court where Darnay is tried is next to the bank of the
Seine. Dickens compares the running of the river as "mad,
like the people on the shore." [T2C: 291, 2]
10. A Darnay is carried home on a chair after his acquittal. The
court audience throws a red flag over the chair and binds a
pike with a red cap on it to the back. Despite Doctor
Manette's entreaties, the people carry him up on their
shoulders in a procession that makes Darnay wonder if he is
not actually on his way to the guillotine. [T2C: 291, 3]
11. B The court spectators dance the Carmagnole in celebration
of Darnay and Lucie's reunion. [T2C: 292, 1]
12. E Doctor Manette tells Lucie, as she lays her head on his
chest, that she "must not be weak" because he has saved
Darnay. [T2C: 292, 7]
13. B Lucie and Charles pray in thanks to God for saving Charles
and returning him home to Lucie. [T2C: 292, 4‐5]
14. E Madame Defarge is seen knitting during Darnay's trial, an
ominous reminder that Darnay's name is still on the
register. Though he is acquitted, he is not yet safe from her
vengeance. [T2C: 287, 3]
15. D The court spectators at Darnay's trial are examples of the
very malleable nature of the French people. Their opinions
change quickly, first lusting for Darnay's execution, then
supporting his innocence. However, it is implied that this
flexibility can just as easily reverse again. [T2C: 289, 3]
16. B
17. D
18. C
19. E
20. D
21. A
22. E
23. D
24. D
25. D

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 37
CHAPTER 3.7 A KNOCK AT THE DOOR
1. C The Darnays are frugal in their housekeeping and do not
have a servant because they are not rich, primarily because
Charles had to spend much of his money on prison
expenses, and they consider it safer. There is less risk of
having a domestic spy in their home, and they are less likely
to offend people. [T2C: 293, 4]
2. E The Republic requires everyone to paint their names on the
door or doorpost of their home in a certain size, at a certain
height from the ground. Darnay hires a painter to add his
name to the list on his door. The list also includes Jerry
Cruncher, who essentially lives with the Darnays on retainer
from Lorry. [T2C: 294, 1]
3. D Doctor Manette and the other members of his household
must go each evening to purchase various household items
in small quantities at several different shops. They aim to
avoid talk and envy as much as possible, so they do not
want to be seen purchasing too much at any one place. [T2C:
294, 2]
4. B Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher procure goods for the
Doctor's household, with Miss Pross carrying the money
and Jerry Cruncher carrying the basket. [T2C: 294, 3]
5. E Miss Pross always bargains with the shopkeepers when she
goes shopping for household supplies. Though she speaks
no French, she communicates her price by holding up one
less finger than the merchant, regardless of the number.
[T2C: 294, 3]
6. D After living in the Manette household for some time, the
rust from grave robbing wears off of Jerry Cruncher's
fingers. However, Dickens says "nothing would file his spiky
head down." [T2C: 295, 1]
7. C Jerry Cruncher tells Miss Pross, "It will be much the same to
your knowledge, miss, I should think, whether they drink
your health or the Old Un's." He clarifies that he is speaking
of Old Nick, a name for the devil. [T2C: 295, 5]
8. A Miss Pross, as a citizen of England, says that her maxim is,
"Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks, On
him our hopes we fix, God save the King!" [T2C: 295, 12]
9. B Four "rough men in red caps, armed with sabres and
pistols" arrest Darnay shortly after his acquittal, confirming
Lucie's suspicions that the danger is not yet past. [T2C: 297, 1]
10. A The men arresting Darnay tell him that he, is accused by
Saint Antoine. Later, one admits that the Defarges and one
other accused Darnay. [T2C: 297, 16]
11. E One of the men arresting Darnay tells Doctor Manette that
he should stop asking questions. He says, "Citizen Doctor,
ask no more. If the Republic demands sacrifices from you,
without doubt you as a good patriot will be happy to make
them. The Republic goes before all. The people is
Supreme." [T2C: 297, 18]
12. C Though it is against the rules, one of the soldiers arresting
Darnay tells Doctor Manette that the Defarges and one
other person denounced Darnay. [T2C: 298, 4]
13. B When Doctor Manette asks the soldier of Saint Antoine
who the third person to denounce Darnay is, the solder
responds that he is "dumb," or speechless. [T2C: 298, 8]
14. A Charles Darnay is freed from prison, and then immediately
taken back by order of the Defarges. Madame Defarge did
much the same with Foulon, letting him escape before
catching and killing him. She is ruthless in her games of cat
and mouse with those whom she wishes to have killed. [T2C:
296‐298]
15. A Doctor Manette tells Miss Pross she can take the liberty of
asking a question, but she responds, "For gracious sake,
don't talk about Liberty; we have quite enough of that." [T2C:
295, 10]
16. B
17. B
18. D
19. D
20. C
21. E
22. C
23. D
24. E
25. A

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 38
CHAPTER 3.8 A HAND AT CARDS
1. C Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher visit a wine shop called The
Good Republican Brutus of Antiquitity. The shop name
likely refers to Lucius Junius Brutus, who helped to establish
the Roman Republic. 21 [T2C:298, 10]
2. D Miss Pross refers to Jerry Cruncher as her cavalier. A
cavalier was originally a knight, but later came to refer to a
gentleman. [T2C: 298, 10]
3. C Miss Pross screams when she sees her brother in the wine
shop, but the other customers look as though expecting
that somebody was assassinated over a difference of
opinion. [T2C: 299, 2‐3]
4. D Solomon Pross is vexed by encountering his sister in a wine
shop. He worries that she will blow his cover as a spy. He is
not surprised, telling her that he already knew she was in
France. [T2C: 300, 1]
5. B Miss Pross explores "the depths of her reticule," which is a
small bag like a purse, in order to pay for her wine and go
outside to speak to her brother. [T2C: 300, 8]
6. D Jerry Cruncher and Sydney Carton recognize Miss Pross'
brother Solomon as John Barsad from Darnay's previous
trial in England. [T2C: 301‐302]
7. B Sydney Carton appears almost out of nowhere in the wine
shop, identifying Solomon Pross as John Barsad, while Jerry
Cruncher can only partially remember Pross' English name.
[T2C: 302, 6‐8]
8. A Solomon Pross is a tergiversator, one who uses evasions or
subterfuge, or who forsakes a position of allegiance. [T2C: 306,
5]
9. A Sydney Carton discusses all the cards he has in his hand,
relative to Solomon Pross' poor hand of cards, as a
metaphor for the power that he holds. [T2C: 305‐307]
10. C Solomon Pross put paving stones and dirt in Roger Cly's
coffin, helping to fake the man's funeral. He is revealed as
the only mourner at the funeral. Pross tells Carton that Cly's
unpopularity prevented him from following the remains,
but he helped to lay Cly in his coffin. [T2C: 309, 8]
11. D Sydney Carton threatens to denounce Solomon Pross for
communicating with Roger Cly, another spy for the
aristocratic English government. The former employer of
the two spies is the enemy of France, the country for which
they now work, but would likely sentence them to death if
this information were revealed. [T2C: 309, 13]
12. B Jerry Cruncher, who attempted to rob Roger Cly's grave,
reveals that Cly was not actually buried. Rather, his coffin
was filled with stones and dirt so that he could escape from
England, where he was extremely unpopular. Cruncher, of
course, has a hard time explaining how he knows about this
funeral deception. [T2C: 309]
13. B Solomon Pross is frightened of Madame Defarge, who knits
while talking to him and has an ominous look. He knows
that, given his occupation, it is unlikely that he can escape
her registers. [T2C: 306, 5]
21 Interestingly, if you search Google Maps for Paris wine shop, Defarge's
wine shop appears as a placemark in A Tale of Two Cities.‐Melanie
14. A Sydney Carton tells Jarvis Lorry that times are desperate,
but that Doctor Manette can play the winning came while
he will play the losing one, sacrificing himself for Darnay.
[T2C: 305, 6]
15. E Sydney Carton refers to Solomon Pross as a "Sheep of the
Prisons," a name for one who spies in prisons in order to
obtain incriminating evidence about a prisoner. [T2C: 302, 9]
16. B
17. B
18. B
19. B
20. A
21. B
22. A
23. B
24. E
25. D

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 39
CHAPTER 3.9 THE GAME MADE
1. E Jarvis Lorry reprimands Jerry Cruncher for working as a
grave robber, telling him that he will be fired from Tellson's.
[T2C: 311, 6]
2. C Jerry Cruncher tells Mr. Lorry that there might be "medical
doctors at the present hour, a picking up their guineas
where a honest tradesman don't pick up his fardens."
"Fardens" are actually farthings, coins worth a quarter of a
penny. [T2C: 311, 7]
3. C Jarvis Lorry tells Jerry Cruncher not to prevaricate, or lie,
about his illegal activity robbing graves. 22 [T2C: 312, 3]
4. B Jerry Cruncher asks Mr. Lorry to let his son assume his job
at Tellson's so that the boy can take care of his mother. [T2C:
312, 4]
5. B Jerry Cruncher plans to become a grave digger to "make
amends for what he would have un‐dug." He says that he
will dig them "with conwictions respectin' the futur' keepin'
of 'em safe." [T2C: 312, 4]
6. C Barsad and Carton make a deal that if things do not go well
for Darnay, Carton can visit him once in prison. [T2C: 313,4]
7. E Carton tells Lorry that he is a "good man and a true friend,"
and that he cannot stand to see him weep any more than
he could if Lorry was his own father, but says that Lorry is
"free from that misfortune." [T2C: 314, 1]
8. A Sydney Carton speaks with the wood‐sawyer outside La
Force Prison, who tells him that Samson, the executioner
,complains of being exhausted. [T2C: 317, 5]
9. B The wood‐sawyer times the speed of the executions by the
number of pipes he smokes; when speaking to Carton, he
said that 63 people were killed that day in two pipes. [T2C:
317, 9‐10]
10. D Sydney Carton visits a chemist's shop after speaking with
Barsad, Lorry, and then the wood‐sawyer. He writes down
what he wants on a scrap of paper, keeping it a mystery to
the reader. The chemist indicates that the substances are
dangerous if they are mixed together. [T2C: 317, 18]
11. D As Carton walks the steets at night, seemingly preparing to
die, he hears a quote in his head that was read at his
father's funeral: "I am the resurrection and the life, saith
the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet
shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me,
shall never die." This passage is from the Book of John, and
commonly recited during burial services. [T2C: 318, 9]
12. B Dickens describe the darkness during Sydney Carton's
night‐time walk, saying that the time when the moon and
stars turned pale, it looked as if "Creation were delivered
over to Death's dominion." After, the sun rises and warms
his heart. This represents resurrection, a common theme
throughout the novel. [T2C: 319, 5]
13. A The court says that three people openly denounced Charles
Darnay, the Defarges and Doctor Manette. [T2C: 321, 12]
14. D Defarge found a written paper in One Hundred and Five,
North Tower in the Bastille. The paper was written by
22 Prevaricate is a common SAT and GRE word. When Cruncher says it,
the word is "prewaricate."‐Melanie
Doctor Manette, and is considered his denouncement of
Darnay. [T2C: 323, 2]
15. C Carton and Lorry reflect on what makes life worthwhile,
primarily an emotional connection with other people.
When Carton asks Lorry whether his childhood memories
seem far off, Lorry replies that they once did, but as he gets
older he feels closer to the beginning. [T2C: 316, 5]
16. D
17. A
18. D
19. D
20. C
21. B
22. C
23. D
24. D
25. A

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 40
CHAPTER 3.10 THE SUBSTANCE OF THE SHADOW
1. E Doctor Manette hid away a letter explaining the cause of
his imprisonment. Defarge found the paper in the chimney
walls within his cell, expecting that it might be found after
his death. [T2C: 323, 5]
2. C Doctor Manette wrote the letter explaining the reasons
behind his imprisonment in the last month of the 10 th year
of his captivity. [T2C: 324, 1]
3. B Doctor Manette was arrested in 1757, and rescued by his
daughter 18 years later, the point at which the novel
begins. [T2C: 324, 2]
4. C The twin Evremonde brothers take Doctor Manette to treat
a young woman who repeatedly says, "My husband, my
father, and my brother." She then counts to twelve and
says, "Hush!" [T2C: 326, 5]
5. A The young peasant boy was stabbed by a sword. Doctor
Manette, after seeing the wound, believes it too severe for
him to have lived, even if seen without a delay of twenty to
twenty‐four hours. [T2C: 328, 9]
6. E Doctor Manette believe the young peasant woman has a
high fever of the brain, something akin to delirium,
followed by her collapse. [T2C: 326, 2]
7. D Doctor Manette gives the sick peasant woman a dose of
narcotic medicine, the only kind the Evremonde brothers
seem to have. Manette says, "If I had wanted to use
anything save narcotic medicines that were poisons in
themselves, I would not have administered any of these."
The medicine likely made her sleepy and less aware of her
illness. [T2C: 327, 9]
8. E The peasant girl's brother tells Doctor Manette that the
Evremondes convinced her husband to lend her to them by
harnessing him to their carts as a driver and making him
stay out to quiet the frogs all night. [T2C: 330, 4]
9. A The peasant boy takes his young sister somewhere out of
the Evremonde brothers' reaches so that she cannot
become their slave. He then tracked the brother who took
his other sister, attempting to kill, but instead being killed
himself. [T2C: 331, 2]
10. C The Evremonde brothers raped the peasant woman, caused
the deaths of her brother and father, and then imprisoned
Doctor Manette to keep their crimes a secret. [T2C: 331, 2]
11. D The peasant boy draws a cross in blood to signal his cure on
the Evremonde brothers and their entire "bad race." [T2C: 322,
1]
12. A The Marquis believes that the "common bodies" of the
peasant girl and her brother have no strength. Doctor
Manette tells him, "There is prodigious strength in sorrow
and despair." Prodigious means extraordinary or
remarkable. [T2C: 333, 3]
13. B Doctor Manette tells the Evremonde brothers that his
communications with patients are received in confidence,
but says that he is guarded in response because of the
troubling nature of what he saw and heard. [T2C: 333, 5‐8]
14. D Doctor Manette abridges his narrative of the incident with
the Evremonde brothers because he fears being detected
and moved to a dark, underground dungeon. He states,
however, that he remembers every work spoken between
him and the brothers. [T2C: 333, 10]
15. D The Marquis' wife seeks out Doctor Manette to find out the
name and location of the younger sister of the two
murdered peasants. She hopes to help the sister, but
Manette does not know where the girl was hidden. [T2C: 336, 1]
16. E The Marquis' wife hopes to make amends for the actions of
her husband and brother‐in‐law, worrying that if no other
atones for their actions, her young boy Charles will be
required to atone for them one day. [T2C: 336, 4]
17. C Charles Evremonde, or Darnay, is about two or three years
old when he and his mother go to Doctor Manette in an
attempt to help the younger sister of the murdered
peasants. [T2C: 336, 3]
18. C Ernest Defarge is Doctor Manette's servant at the time
Manette is imprisoned. He was only a youth at the time. [337,
1]
19. D The Evremonde family name was anathematized, or cursed,
by Saint Antoine for a long time, and was knitted into
Madame Defarge's fatal register. [T2C: 337, 6]
20. B Darnay's jury votes unanimously to have him sent back to
the Concierge and executed within twenty‐four hours.
There is no sympathy for Doctor Manette's imprisonment,
only vengeance against a member of the aristocracy. [T2C: 338,
4]
21. D
22. B
23. C
24. A
25. B

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 41
CHAPTER 3.11 DUSK
1. A John Barsad, one of the only jailers left in the courthouse
after the trial, allows Lucie to embrace her husband for just
a moment before he is taken back to jail to await his
execution. [T2C: 339, 3]
2. C Lucie believes that she will die of a broken heart and join
her husband in death, but will first do her duty raising their
daughter. [T2C: 339, 8]
3. B Lucie says that when she dies of a broken heart, God will
give little Lucie friends, as he once did for her. [T2C: 339, 8]
4. D Darnay tries to comfort Doctor Manette after the trial,
telling him that the outcome is not his fault. Darnay is
grateful for Manette's struggle in accepting him despite his
descent and working toward his freedom. [T2C: 339, 10]
5. D After Lucie is separated from her husband for what she
believes to be the last time, she lays her head on her
father's breast and faints at his feet. [T2C: 340, 3]
6. A Little Lucie asks Carton, who helps carry the unconscious
Lucie home, to do something to help her mother and save
her father. She implores him, "Can you, of all the people
who love her, bear to see her so?" [T2C: 340, 9]
7. E Carton whispers, "A life you love," to the unconscious Lucie
before leaving her for the last time. This recalls his earlier
conversation with her in the chapter, "A Fellow of No
Delicacy," when he tells her that he would give his life for
her or someone she loves. [T2C: 341, 3]
8. A After Darnay is sentenced to death, Carton begs Doctor
Manette to try to use his influence to persuade the judges
before the execution. [T2C: 341, 5]
9. E Sydney Carton, begging Doctor Manette to persuade the
judges to change their minds about Darnay's execution,
tells him that his efforts are worthwhile. He says, "Of little
worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It
would cost nothing to lay down if it were not." [T2C: 341, 9]
10. C Sydney Carton and Doctor Manette plan to meet at
Tellson's at nine o'clock on the night before the day Darnay
is scheduled to be executed. [T2C: 342, 1]
11. E Lorry tells Carton that he has no hope of saving Darnay,
saying, "If any of these men, or all of these men, were
disposed to spare him‐which is a large supposition; for what
is his life or any man's to them!‐I doubt if they durst spare
him after the demonstration in the court." Carton agrees,
responding, "And so do I. I heard the fall of the axe in that
sound." [T2C: 342, 5]
12. E After Darnay's sentencing, the court empties into the
streets to celebrate his imminent execution. [T2C: 339, 1]
13. D Lucie and Darnay's parting is somewhat melodramatic, full
of saccharine language such as "dear darling of my soul."
[T2C: 339, 4‐8]
14. B Doctor Manette plans to beg with the tribunal judges after
their celebration in the streets, which is about an hour or
two after dark. Carton says it will be dark around four, and
asks to meet with Manette at Tellson's around 9:00 PM to
discuss what happened. [T2C: 342, 1]
15. E Charles Darnay, comforting Doctor Manette, tells him, "All
things have worked together as they have fallen out. It was
the always vain endeavor to discharge my poor mother's
trust that first brought my fatal presence near you. Good
could never come of such evil, a happier end was not in
nature to so unhappy a beginning." [T2C: 340, 2]
16. C
17. E
18. D
19. E
20. B
21. A
22. B
23. A
24. B
25. E

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 42
CHAPTER 3.12 DARKNESS
1. D Sydney Carton goes to Defarge's wine shop to make his
presence known to the local citizens. He debates this
decision, but decides it is a sound precaution that makes
sense if Darnay is to leave France under his name. [T2C: 342, 13]
2. A On the night before Darnay's scheduled execution, the
night before Carton himself is to die, he does not have a
strong drink for the first time in years. The preceding
evening he had only a small amount of light wine, and
poured his brandy on Lorry's hearth. [T2C: 343, 2]
3. B Jacques Three, who was also a member of Darnay's jury, is
the only customer in Defarge's wine shop when Sydney
Carton stops in to make his presence known in the city. The
Vengeance is also there, but appears like a regular member
of the establishment rather than a customer. [T2C: 343, 4]
4. C Carton picks up a Jacobin journal and pretends to read it in
front of Madame Defarge while she pours him a glass of
wine. [T2C: 344, 3]
5. D The Defarges are taken aback by Sydney Carton's presence
in their wine shop because his appearance is so similar to
Darnay's. [T2C: 344, 3]
6. E Sydney Carton overhears Madame Defarge discussing her
desire to exterminate Doctor Manette and Lucie Darnay,
while her husband believes that they have gone far enough
with Charles Darnay and must stop somewhere. [T2C: 345, 1‐3]
7. A Madame Defarge reveals that she is the sister of the
peasants who were killed by the Evremonde brothers. After
being hidden away, she was raised by fisherman. This
explains her ruthlessness in trying to annihilate the entire
Evremonde line, as the matter goes beyond the Revolution
to a very personal tragedy. [T2C: 345, 14]
8. B Sydney Carton pays for his wine and asks Madame Defarge
for directions to the National Palace, which is on the side of
Paris opposite the wine shop. [T2C: 346, 4]
9. C Doctor Manette was supposed to return to Tellson's at nine
o'clock to discuss the results of his attempt to persude the
tribunal against executing Darnay. However, he does not
shop up at nine or ten. Lorry decides to return to Lucie
while Carton waits for Manette. When Doctor Manette
appears shortly after Lorry returns to Tellson's at midnight.
[T2C: 347, 1‐2]
10. E When Doctor Manette is unable to save Darnay from
execution, he experiences a relapse and begins looking for
his shoemaking bench so that he can return to his work,
telling Lorry and Carton, "Time presses: I must finish those
shoes." [T2C: 347, 6]
11. E Carton asks Lorry to hold on to his passport as well as those
of Doctor Manette and Lucie Darnay, though he does not
fully explain his reasoning. However, he does inform Lorry
that Madame Defarge plans to denounce Manette and
Lucie, putting them in grant danger. [T2C: 348, 7‐11]
12. A The wood‐sawyer is under the control of the Defarges. He
tells them about Lucie's visits to the prison, where she
makes signs and signals to prisoners. Carton worries that
Madame Defarge could construe this as a prison plot,
resulting in the execution of Lucie, her daughter, and her
father, who have stood with her at the prison as well. [T2C:
349, 4]
13. A Carton believes that Madame Defarge will wait to
denounce Lucie and Doctor Manette until about a week
after Darnay's execution so that she can add the capital
crime of mourning for a victim of the Guillotine to her
charges against them. [T2C: 349, 6]
14. A Lorry plans to bring Doctor Manette, Lucie, little Lucie, and
Carton back to England at two o'clock on the day of
Darnay's execution. He and Carton believe they must not
delay any longer because their passports will be recalled if
Madame Defarge denounces them. [T2C: 349,8]
15. C Carton tells Lorry that he must not change or delay his
plans to return to England with Doctor Manette, Lucie, little
Lucie, and Carton or many lives will be lost. Lorry promises
to remember Carton's words and do his part. [T2C: 350, 11]
16. C
17. D
18. D
19. D
20. B
21. C
22. C
23. A
24. D
25. C

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 43
CHAPTER 3.13 FIFTY‐TWO
1. C Fifty‐two people are condemned to die on the day of
Darnay's execution, which Dickens points out is the same
number as the weeks of the year. [T2C: 351, 1]
2. A Darnay writes letters to Lucie, Doctor Manette, and Lorry
on the night before he is to be executed. He asks them to
comfort and take care of each other. However, Dickens
notes that Darnay never once thinks of Carton, who will
soon sacrifice himself for Darnay. The next day, as he is
waiting to die, he paces and prays. [T2C: 352, 4‐6]
3. D Charles Darnay confides his wife and daughter to the care
of Doctor Manette, hoping that caring for his family will
keep Manette from heading toward relapse into
depression. [T2C: 353, 1]
4. C The night before Darnay is to be executed, he dreams that
he is back in Soho with Lucie. She tells him that everything
was just a dream and he never left for Paris. He awakes to
the realization that it is the day of his death. [T2C: 353, 4]
5. E Darnay paces in his prison cell, awaiting his death, and
counting down the hours he will never see again. At about
1:00 P.M., Sydney Carton surprises Darnay by visiting him.
[T2C: 355, 5]
6. E Carton convinces Darnay to swap clothes with him,
including his cravat, or neckband. [T2C: 356, 2]
7. C John Barsad helps Carton trade places with Darnay, getting
Darnay to the coach where his family awaits so long as
Carton stays true in the exchange to the death. [T2C: 358, 2]
8. A Carton drugs Darnay with vapors made by the ingredients
he purchased at the chemist's shop. Barsad can then take
Darnay out, pretending that Carton fainted from the stress
of his meeting, and bring him to the coach where his family
waits to leave Paris. [T2C: 357]
9. A A seamstress who was previously imprisoned with Darnay
sees Carton in line awaiting the wagons headed to the
guillotine. She asks to hold his hand for comfort in the
wagon, and asks if he is dying for Darnay. [T2C: 360, 11]
10. E The Republican working at the Barrier tells little Lucie to
kiss him, saying, "Now, thou hast kissed a good Republican;
something new in they family; remember it!" [T2C: 361, 11]
11. D Jarvis Lorry replies to all the questions of the official at the
Barrier between England and France, while the others in
the coach do not seem to be holding up as well. [T2C: 361, 17]
12. C Lorry tells Lucie that they cannot drive too quickly after
leaving the Barrier or it will look like flight and rouse
peoples' suspicions. [T2C: 362, 6]
13. D Someone stops Lorry's coach, giving all a fright that they
are being pursued, to ask how many people are being
executed by guillotine at the last post. [T2C: 363, 5]
14. D As Lorry, Doctor Manette, Lucie, little Lucie, and Darnay
flee France, the narrative switches from third‐person to
first‐person. Dickens begins writing using "we" and "our."
This first‐person narrative continues with Carton's death.
[T2C: 362‐363]
15. B While awaiting their executions, a seamstress believes she
recognizes Darnay from imprisonment in La Force. She
approaches him to speak and ask to hold his hand in the
16. D
17. B
18. B
19. D
20. E
21. B
22. E
23. D
24. E
25. A
wagon for comfort. The seamstress tells Carton, before
realizing that he is not Darnay, "I am not afraid to die,
Citizen Evremonde, but I have done nothing. I am not
unwilling to die, if the Republic which is to do so much good
to us poor, will profit by my death; but I do not know how
that can be, Citizen Evremonde. Such a poor weak little
creature!" [T2C: 360, 5]

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 44
CHAPTER 3.14 THE KNITTING DONE
1. C Jacques Three believes that Ernest Defarge's weakness for
Doctor Manette is "not quite like a good citizen." Madame
Defarge insists that, despite this, her husband is a good
Republican. [T2C: 364, 3]
2. B Jacques Three speaks of Lucie going to the guillotine, saying
"She has a fine head for it. I have seen blue eyes and golden
hair there, and they looked charming when Samson held
them up." Dickens remarks that he speaks like an epicure,
or a person with refined tastes. [T2C: 364, 5]
3. D Jacques Three says that Manette and Lucie must not escape
from France because not enough people are being
guillotines. He thinks six score, or 120, should be killed a
day. [T2C: 364, 9]
4. D The wood‐sawyer plans to testify that Lucie Darnay,
sometimes with her child, stood outside the prison for two
hours every day signaling to the prisoners. He believes this
is a clear indication of plotting, the crime for which the
seamstress is executed. [T2C: 365, 2]
5. E Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher do not leave France at the
same time as the rest of their household. They plan to leave
an hour later, allowing the other coach to go through the
Barrier with less time required for inspection of the
passengers. Further, they do not want to overload the
other coach and slow it down. [T2C: 368, 1]
6. C Jerry Cruncher promises Miss Pross that if Lucie and Darnay
escape France safely he will stop grave robbing and beating
his wife for praying. [T2C: 369, 4]
7. B Jerry Cruncher plans to stop interefering with his wife's
flopping, or praying, when he returns home from France.
He tells Miss Pross that he hopes his wife is praying during
his escape. [T2C: 369, 4]
8. A Miss Pross believes it best that the coach taking her back to
England leave from a location other than the household
from which Lorry's coach departed. She sends Cruncher to
get the coach and wait for her at Notre Dame Cathedral.
[T2C: 370, 8]
9. A Miss Pross is laving, or washing, her swollen, red eyes when
Madame Defarge appears in the doorway of her home.
Pross drops her water basin and cries out in surprise. When
Defarge asks her where Lucie is, Miss Pross' first instinct is
to close all the doors in the home to avoid suspicion that
Lucie has fled. [T2C: 371, 2]
10. A Miss Pross says Madame Defarge looks like the wife of
Lucifer, but insists that Defarge will not get the better of
her because she is an Englishwoman. [T2C: 271, 7]
11. A Dickens describes the battle between Miss Pross and
Madame Defarge as on between love and hate,
foreshadowing that Pross will succeed by saying that love is
always stronger than hate. [T2C: 374, 2]
12. D Miss Pross' murder of Madame Defarge occurs very quickly.
Dickens writes, "Madame Defarge's hands were at her
bosom. Miss Pross looked up, saw what it was, struck at it,
struck out a flash and a carsh, and stood alone‐blinded with
smoke." The noise of the gunshot deafens Miss Pross. [T2C:
374, 4]
13. A The noise of the gunshot that kills Madame Defarge
deafens Miss Pross. When she goes to meet Jerry Cruncher
at the Cathedral, she hears no noises in the streets. When
Cruncher tries to speak to her, she understands him only
through nods. Though Pross is able to overcome Defarge,
she makes a large sacrifice in the process. [T2C: 375]
14. D Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher meet at the Cathedral at 3:00
P.M., an hour after the rest of their group departs, to flee
France and return home to England. [T2C: 368, 1]
15. C Miss Pross stands up to Madame Defarge, telling her, "If
those eyes of yours were bed‐winches, and I was an English
four‐poster, they shouldn't loose a splinter of me."
However, Defarge and Pross cannot understand each other,
as Defarge speaks French and Pross English. Throughout
their lengthy conversation, they gauge everything by look
and manner. [T2C: 372, 5]
16. C
17. B
18. B
19. A
20. D
21. E
22. C
23. E
24. E
25. C

LANG & LIT
NOVEL FOCUSED QUIZ 45
CHAPTER 3.15 THE FOOTSTEPS DIE OUT FOR EVER
1. B Dickens writes, "Crush humanity out of shape once more,
under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same
tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious licence and
oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit
according to its kind." Thus, he considers the horrors of the
Revolution inevitable given the inhumanity and oppression
that preceded it. [T2C: 376, 3]
2. B Six tumbrils carry the 52 people being sent to their deaths
on the day Carton sacrifices himself. Approximately nine
people are in each cart. Carton is in the third cart. [T2C: 376, 3]
3. B The French citizens are accustomed to seeing death‐carts
roll through the streets. When Carton and the others
sentenced to die are taken to the guillotine, nobody stops
what they are doing to go look. [T2C: 377, 1]
4. C John Barsad stands watching the carts of prisoners to be
executed, ensuring that Carton is following through on his
promise. When a man cheers for Darnay's execution,
Barsad tells him to be quiet and let him be at peace before
he pays the forfeit. [T2C: 378, 7]
5. B The Vengeance repeatedly calls out for Madame Defarge
before the executions begin, surprised by her absence
because she has never missed one before. The Vengeance
saved her a seat and held onto her knitting, and is vexed
and disappointed when she does not appear in time to see
Darnay beheaded. [T2C: 378, 12]
6. C The seamstress thanks Carton for comforting her. He holds
her hand until the moment she goes to be executed and
blocks her sight of the guillotine. She says, "But for you,
dear stranger, I should not be so composed, for I am
naturally a poor little thing, faint of heart." [T2C: 379, 4]
7. D The seamstress asks Carton if it will feel like a long time
before she sees her cousin, who is her only relative, in
Heaven. Carton assures her that there is no time or trouble
in Heaven. [T2C: 380, 5]
8. C The seamstress is executed right before Carton, at which
point the knitting‐women count 22 deaths. [T2C: 380, 11]
9. C Before the seamstress releases Carton's hand to go to her
death, she and Carton kiss. She has a "sweet, bright
constancy" on her face when she leaves him. [T2C: 380, 11]
10. B Before he dies, Carton recites the biblical passage that was
read at his father's funeral: "I am the Resurrection and the
Life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were
dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth
in me shall never die." [T2C: 380, 12]
11. E As Carton dies, it is said that he looks peaceful, sublime,
and prophetic. [T2C: 381, 1]
12. B Dickens uses first‐person narration to convey Carton's last
thoughts. However, it is unclear whether they are actually
his thoughts, or those prophesized by the narrator. The
narrator says, "One of the most remarkable sufferers by the
same axe‐awoman‐had asked at the foot of the same
scaffold, not long before, to be allowed to write down the
thoughts that were inspiring her. If he had given an
utterance to his, and they were prophetic, they would have
been these." 23 [T2C: 381‐381]
13. E In Carton's last thoughts before death, he predicts that the
oppressors during the revolution will die by their own
instrument and France will rise out of its abyss. He sees
Jarvis Lorry living another ten years, Doctor Manette
returning to work as a doctor, and Lucie and Charles having
a son who bears Carton's name. Carton believes that child
will follow the path he himself never took in life and make
his name illustrious. [T2C: 381]
14. C Sydney Carton's famous last words are, "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." His words
provide a soothing resolution to the novel through their use
of repetition. [T2C: 381, 2]
15. D Carton's last words make use of anaphora, the repetition of
words at the beginning of neighboring clauses. In this way,
Dickens ends the book much like he begins it. [T2C: 381, 2]
16. B
17. E
18. D
19. C
20. A
21. B
22. C
23. A
24. E
25. D
23 The woman to whom he refers is Madame Roland, a member of the
Girondin party who did indeed ask to write down her thoughts at the
guillotine.‐Melanie