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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the news Doctor Manette brings to Lucie about her husband?
(a) Her husband escaped that morning.
(b) Her husband is deathly ill.
(c) Her husband was murdered during the night.
(d) Her husband goes before the Tribunal the next day.

3. What becomes a symbol of the regeneration of the human race, superseding the Cross?
(a) A golden idol of the new king
(b) Satan
(c) La Guillotine
(d) A silver sword

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

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

6. What reaction does Lucie have when she sees men and women dancing the Carmagnole?
(a) Lucie sees the dance as frivolous and a waste of time.
(b) Lucie sees the dance as way for the people to forget their suffering.
(c) Lucie sees the dance a good omen.
(d) Lucie sees the dance as something once innocent, turned cruel and ugly.

7. Who does Charles forget about as he writes letters to family and friends?
(a) Sydney Carton
(b) Doctor Manette
(c) Mr. Lorry
(d) Lucie

8. How long has Charles been in prison at this point?
(a) Two years
(b) One year and three months
(c) Six months
(d) Two weeks

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

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

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

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

13. What does Barsard tell a man who is ridiculing Evremonde as he rides in the death cart?
(a) Death to the aristocrat
(b) He deserves to die.
(c) Give him some peace.
(d) He will die in pain.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Darnay tell Doctor Manette about the evidence brought against him in court?

2. What request does Lucie present to the four men holding her husband?

3. What is the outcome of the struggle between Madame Defarge and Miss Pross?

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

5. Who decides which prisoners will be released or murdered at the prison?

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