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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the year the story is taking place?
(a) 1876
(b) 1875
(c) 1776
(d) 1775
2. What does Lucie request of her husband regarding Mr. Carton?
(a) She asks him to give Mr. Carton a job.
(b) She asks him to pay Carton to go away.
(c) She asks that he never speak to Mr. Carton again.
(d) She asks that he disregard Mr. Carton's faults.
3. Chapter 3
What does Jerry ponder that every house, room, and heart in a city holds?
(a) Its own secret
(b) Smiling children
(c) Happy families
(d) Sad families
4. Who owns a prosperous wine shop in Paris?
(a) Jacques Defarge
(b) Mr. Tellson
(c) Jerry
(d) Doctor Manette
5. What is the first thing Doctor Manette recognizes about his daughter?
(a) Her hair
(b) The shape of her mouth
(c) Her lips
(d) Her eyes
6. What does the newlywed's visitor ask of Charles?
(a) He asks to be his friend.
(b) He asks for a recommendation to Cambridge.
(c) He asks for French lessons.
(d) He asks for a loan.
7. What advice does Stryver give to Carton?
(a) To learn how to speak French
(b) To find a respectable woman who owns property
(c) To move away from the area
(d) To find a better career
8. How do the three passengers in the coach relate to one another?
(a) They are life long friends.
(b) They are business partners.
(c) They are mysteries to each other.
(d) They are cousins.
9. What does Madame Defarge do when the Governor of the Bastille is killed?
(a) She cheers.
(b) She turns and runs away.
(c) She cuts off his head.
(d) She screams at the sight.
10. What is in the letter that Gabelle sends to Charles Darnay?
(a) A request for money
(b) A request for a new home
(c) A request that Charles rescue him from prison
(d) A request for employment
11. What is the punishment for forgers, thieves, and counterfeiters?
(a) Death
(b) Going to a labor camp
(c) Cutting off a hand
(d) Imprisonment
12. What news does the spy relate to Defarge?
(a) Lucie is to be married to Charles Darnay.
(b) Gaspard's body was thrown in the river.
(c) Dr. Manette's daughter is to marry Carton.
(d) Dr. Manette's daughter is to marry Stryver.
13. Chapter 2
What is the punishment for treason?
(a) Quartering
(b) Life in prison
(c) Hanging
(d) Exile
14. Chapter 20
Who is the first person to visit the newlyweds when they return home?
(a) Sydney Carton
(b) Mr. Lorry
(c) Miss Pross
(d) Doctor Manette
15. Chapter 4
Who visits Lorry the day after he arrives at the Royal George Hotel?
(a) Miss Pross
(b) Miss Lucie Manette
(c) Jerry
(d) Mr. Tellson
Short Answer Questions
1. What are Mr. Carton's feelings toward Charles Darnay?
2. What does the Monseigneur believe the world was made for?
3. What does Carton say he would do for Lucie and anyone dear to her?
4. What does Defarge take to the King and Queen about Marquis Evremonde's murderer?
5. Who does Dickens describe as the idlest and most unpromising man?
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