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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Mr. Lorry leave with Lucie, her child, and Miss Pross at their new lodgings?
(a) Carton
(b) Doctor Manette
(c) Defarge
(d) Jerry

2. What do the people of the city have to say about Sydney Carton's execution at La Guillotine?
(a) He is the most peaceful man ever to be executed.
(b) He is the most hysterical man ever to face La Guillotine
(c) He is the most prayerful of all the executed.
(d) He is the most fearful of all the condemned.

3. What is Solomon's secret identity in England?
(a) The spy, Barsard
(b) Stryver of Old Bailey
(c) Mr. Attorney General
(d) The spy, Roger Cly

4. What is Defarge's response when Charles Darnay asks him to contact Mr. Lorry at Tellson's Bank?
(a) Defarge says that he will deliver the message himself.
(b) Defarge says that he will be glad to send Lorry a message.
(c) Defarge says nothing.
(d) Defarge says that he will do nothing for Charles.

5. Who makes up the Tribunal?
(a) Five judges and a jury
(b) Three judges and a public prosecutor
(c) One judge and a jury
(d) Five judges, public prosecutor, and a jury

6. How does Carton manage to get Charles out of his prison cell?
(a) He slips out a secret passageway.
(b) He lowers a rope from the tower and climbs down.
(c) He goes through a trap door in the floor.
(d) He anesthetizes him and Barsard carries him out.

7. Why do Lucie and Charles not hire a housekeeper?
(a) They prefer to live in seclusion.
(b) Lucie enjoys housekeeping.
(c) They are not rich and they fear domestic spies.
(d) Little Lucie does all the housekeeping chores.

8. What is the outcome of the struggle between Madame Defarge and Miss Pross?
(a) Miss Pross is shot.
(b) Miss Pross is stabbed.
(c) Madame Defarge is shot.
(d) Madame Defarge is stabbed.

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

10. 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 disguised as a fruit vendor.
(b) She stands outside at three in the afternoon and he will be able to see her.
(c) She stands outside the prison dressed in leper's robes.
(d) She comes to the prison after dark so he can see her.

11. Where does Miss Pross run across her long lost brother, Solomon?
(a) At La Guillotine
(b) The Good Republican Brutus of Antiquity
(c) Tellson's Bank
(d) The La Forge prison

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

13. Where does Sydney Carton stop on the morning after Charles' trial?
(a) Jerry Cruncher's lodgings
(b) The prison
(c) The Defarge's wine shop
(d) La Guillotine

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

15. Who accompanies Mr. Lorry to go see Lucie?
(a) Jerry, Monsieur Defarge, and the Vengeance
(b) Monsieur Defarge, the Vengeance, and Carton
(c) Madame Defarge, the Vengeance, and Carton
(d) Monsieur Defarge, Madame Defarge, and the Vengeance

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Defarge take Charles Darnay when he arrives at the gates of Paris?

2. What is Madame Defarge plotting?

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

4. How does the universal fear and distrust of the times affect daily life of the citizens?

5. What is the unanimous vote at Charles' trial?

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