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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While Charles Darnay is on his way to Paris, he is awakened in the middle of the night by French patriots. What do they insist he must do to get to Paris?
(a) Travel alone, during the night.
(b) Travel with an escort.
(c) Travel with a caravan of immigrants.
(d) Travel with soldiers.

2. What is Carton doing as he rides in the death cart?
(a) Praying
(b) Calling to Lucie
(c) Holding the hand of a young girl
(d) Crying

3. What is the physical appearance of the men and women sharpening weapons in the courtyard?
(a) They are dressed in uniforms.
(b) They are covered in blood.
(c) They are dressed in party wear.
(d) They wear clean clothes and white wigs.

4. 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.

5. Who cries out Solomon's English identity when he sees Jerry and Miss Pross talking to him?
(a) Mr. Lorry
(b) Sydney Carton
(c) Monsieur Lafarge
(d) Doctor Manette

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

7. What does Charles realize about the future peace of his family as he awaits execution?
(a) His family's peace depends upon his quiet fortitude.
(b) His family's peace depends upon a curse on his accusers.
(c) His family's peace depends upon his vow of vengeance.
(d) His family's peace depends upon his escape.

8. What is the main source of evidence presented against Charles Darnay?
(a) An incriminating weapon with Charles' initials imprinted on it
(b) An eyewitness
(c) A traitorous letter written by Charles
(d) A letter written in the prison of the Bastille

9. What is Madame Defarge's destination as she walks through the streets?
(a) La Guillotine
(b) Doctor Manette's and Lucie's lodgings
(c) The wine shop
(d) Tullsen's Bank

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

11. What does the evidence against Charles call up in the crowd at the trial?
(a) Sympathy for Charles
(b) Their own past offenses
(c) A passion for vengeance
(d) Mercy for the prisoners

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

13. What does Carton instruct Charles to do when he goes to his prison cell?
(a) Pray for him while waiting for execution.
(b) Change shoes and clothes with him.
(c) Beg the prison guard for mercy.
(d) Ask the Defarge's to take back their testimony.

14. What is bothering Lorry about providing shelter for Lucie at Tellson's Bank?
(a) Lorry will lose his job.
(b) It puts the bank in peril.
(c) Lucie can be easily found.
(d) Lucie is uncomfortable.

15. What does Little Lucie recall later in her life that Carton said to Lucie while she was unconscious?
(a) A life you love
(b) I will never forget you
(c) Be happy
(d) Take care

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has Charles been in prison at this point?

2. What is Lucie's reaction when she is finally pulled away from Charles?

3. What is Madame Defarge plotting?

4. What does Mr. Lorry tell Lucie before he leaves her lodging?

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

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