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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 3 What does Jerry ponder that every house, room, and heart in a city holds?
(a) Smiling children
(b) Sad families
(c) Its own secret
(d) Happy families

2. Who revives Miss Manette with smelling salts after she faints?
(a) Jerry
(b) Miss Pross
(c) Mr. Lorry
(d) The messenger

3. What is in the letter that Gabelle sends to Charles Darnay?
(a) A request for employment
(b) A request for a new home
(c) A request that Charles rescue him from prison
(d) A request for money

4. What advice does Stryver give to Carton?
(a) To move away from the area
(b) To find a better career
(c) To find a respectable woman who owns property
(d) To learn how to speak French

5. Where does Mr. Lorry decide to relocate?
(a) He decides to move to France.
(b) He decides to move to Italy.
(c) He decides to move to Wales.
(d) He decides to move to Scotland.

6. What news does the spy relate to Defarge?
(a) Dr. Manette's daughter is to marry Stryver.
(b) Lucie is to be married to Charles Darnay.
(c) Gaspard's body was thrown in the river.
(d) Dr. Manette's daughter is to marry Carton.

7. Chapter 1 What is the physical appearance of the Kings and Queens of England and France?
(a) The kings are short and the queens are obese.
(b) The kings are stout and the queens are thin.
(c) The kings have large noses and the queens have big mouths.
(d) The kings have large jaws and the queens have plain faces

8. What is the punishment for forgers, thieves, and counterfeiters?
(a) Death
(b) Cutting off a hand
(c) Going to a labor camp
(d) Imprisonment

9. How do the three passengers in the coach relate to one another?
(a) They are life long friends.
(b) They are cousins.
(c) They are mysteries to each other.
(d) They are business partners.

10. What does Jerry's son tell him later in the evening?
(a) He is going to tell his mother what Jerry is up to.
(b) He is going to tell everyone what Jerry's secret trade is.
(c) He wants to follow in his father's footsteps.
(d) He is going to the authorities about Jerry's secret trade.

11. What does Carton confess to Lucie when he visits her?
(a) He is stupid and foolhardy.
(b) He is inspired by his love for her.
(c) He is saddened by his love for Miss Pross.
(d) He will never give up trying to get her.

12. What does Madame Defarge do in her usual spot in the wine shop?
(a) Knits
(b) Bottles wine
(c) Reads
(d) Gossips to customers

13. Chapter 2 What is the name of the hill that the Dover mail carriage is struggling to climb through the mud?
(a) Shooter's Hill
(b) Dover Hill
(c) Tellson's Hill
(d) Dover Rise

14. What type of person is Miss Proust's brother, Solomon?
(a) A heartless scoundrel
(b) A sad, depressed man
(c) A loving brother
(d) A loyal Englishman

15. Who is guarding the Marquis' countryside chateau?
(a) Sydney
(b) Gabelle
(c) Charles
(d) Doctor Manette

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 8 What does the man hanging onto Marquis Evremonde's carriage do?

2. Who does Charles Darnay find attractive?

3. Chapter 12 Why does Stryver visit Mr. Lorry at Tellson's bank?

4. Chapter 16 Who is the spy that is commissioned for Defarge's neighborhood?

5. What does Madame Defarge do when the Governor of the Bastille is killed?

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