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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who decides which prisoners will be released or murdered at the prison?
(a) The king
(b) The guards vote on it
(c) The tribunal
(d) The warden

2. What is Doctor Manette's condition when he returns home from trying to find leniency for Charles?
(a) He is jubilant with success.
(b) He remains strong for Lucie.
(c) He is resigned to Charles' fate.
(d) He has a relapse and looks for his shoemaking bench.

3. What does a woman waiting to be executed ask to do when she sees Carton's face?
(a) Write of the fear she sees in his face
(b) Write about the blank stare in his eyes
(c) Write about the pain in his face
(d) Write the prophecies she sees in his eyes

4. Who is sitting in the front row during Darnay's trial?
(a) Lucie and Miss Pross
(b) Doctor Manette and Mr. Lorry
(c) Monsieur Defarge and Madame Defarge
(d) Doctor Manette and Lucie

5. What is the plan Doctor Manette tells to Lucie so that Charles can see her from a prison window?
(a) She comes to the prison after dark so he can see her.
(b) She comes to the prison disguised as a fruit vendor.
(c) She stands outside at three in the afternoon and he will be able to see her.
(d) She stands outside the prison dressed in leper's robes.

6. What disguise are the two men turning the grindstone wearing?
(a) False eyebrows and false eyelashes
(b) Wild boar heads over their faces
(c) Burlap bags over their faces
(d) Masks of white powder

7. What does Madame Defarge reveal about her past?
(a) She is the sister of Doctor Manette.
(b) She is the other sister of the wounded boy discussed at Darnay's trial.
(c) She was actually born in England.
(d) She has an English stepsister.

8. Who does Doctor Manette go to see after delivering his news to Lucie?
(a) Miss Pross
(b) Mr. Lorry
(c) The Vengeance
(d) Monsieur Defarge

9. How does Carton comfort the seamstress who is executed before him?
(a) He tells her there is no trouble or worry in the next world.
(b) He tells her that her family will pray for her soul.
(c) He tells her that she is too good for this world.
(d) He tells her that she is brave.

10. What do Mr. Lorry and Carton find falling out of the doctor's pocket?
(a) Papers denying safe passage out of France
(b) Papers that allow safe passage out of France
(c) Papers condemning Charles
(d) Papers condemning the doctor and Lucie

11. What is the family name that is detested by Saint Antoine?
(a) Evremonde
(b) Manette
(c) Tellson
(d) Carton

12. What is the arrangement Carton makes with Solomon with regard to Darnay?
(a) Solomon will unlock Darnay's cell.
(b) Carton will smuggle a weapon to Darnay.
(c) Carton can gain access to Darnay.
(d) Solomon will arrange to release Darnay.

13. What is Mr. Lorry grateful for as he sits in Tellson's Bank in Paris?
(a) He is grateful that he still has a job.
(b) He is grateful that he has not been taken prisoner.
(c) He is grateful that he is leaving Paris.
(d) He is grateful that none of his loved ones are in Paris.

14. What is one of the frenzied aspirations of the people?
(a) Sacrifices and self-immolations
(b) Public flogging
(c) Tarring and feathering
(d) Public hanging

15. What is Lucie's reaction when she is finally pulled away from Charles?
(a) She faints.
(b) She pulls her hair hysterically.
(c) She screams.
(d) She scratches at her eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has the wood-sawyer named his saw?

2. What is Madame Defarge plotting?

3. What does Carton purchase after talking to the wood-sawyer?

4. What is the news Doctor Manette brings to Lucie about her husband?

5. What is Sydney's intention now that Charles is out of the prison?

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