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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Carton comfort the seamstress who is executed before him?
(a) He tells her that she is brave.
(b) He tells her that her family will pray for her soul.
(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.

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

3. What is the unanimous vote at Charles' trial?
(a) Hanging in two weeks
(b) Exile
(c) Prison for life
(d) Death within 24 hours

4. What does a woman waiting to be executed ask to do when she sees Carton's face?
(a) Write of the fear she sees in his face
(b) Write the prophecies she sees in his eyes
(c) Write about the blank stare in his eyes
(d) Write about the pain in his face

5. Who is sitting in the front row during Darnay's trial?
(a) Lucie and Miss Pross
(b) Doctor Manette and Mr. Lorry
(c) Monsieur Defarge and Madame Defarge
(d) Doctor Manette and Lucie

6. What is the family name that is detested by Saint Antoine?
(a) Carton
(b) Evremonde
(c) Manette
(d) Tellson

7. What is the question that Miss Pross has for Doctor Manette?
(a) When will they be able to go back to England?
(b) Will they be able to become citizens of France?
(c) How can she go about joining the patriots' cause?
(d) When will a new king rule France?

8. What bothers Lorry about the Defarges?
(a) Their dreadful manner
(b) They seem too happy.
(c) Their lust for blood
(d) Their ignorance

9. What is the new mode of address decreed by the patriots?
(a) Long live liberty.
(b) Sing of a new republic.
(c) Good day to equality.
(d) Good day, citizen.

10. What does Carton purchase after talking to the wood-sawyer?
(a) A new pipe
(b) Two packets from the chemist
(c) A silk top hat
(d) A silver topped cane

11. How many death carts head toward La Guillotine?
(a) Seven
(b) Twelve
(c) Two
(d) Six

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

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

14. Who are the three witnesses against Charles Darnay at his trial?
(a) Monsieur Defarge, Madame Defarge, and The Vengeance
(b) Monsieur Defarge, The Vengeance, and Doctor Manette
(c) Monsieur Defarge, Madame Defarge, and Doctor Manette
(d) Monsieur Defarge, Solomon, and The Vengeance

15. Who is Mr. Lorry amazed to see come through the door of Tellson's Bank in Paris?
(a) Mr. and Mrs. Defarge
(b) Charles Darnay
(c) Lucie and her father
(d) Miss Pross

Short Answer Questions

1. What is bothering Lorry about providing shelter for Lucie at Tellson's Bank?

2. Where does Miss Pross run across her long lost brother, Solomon?

3. What are Carton's true feelings about Mr. Lorry?

4. What is Sydney's intention now that Charles is out of the prison?

5. What does Barsard tell a man who is ridiculing Evremonde as he rides in the death cart?

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