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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Carton manage to get Charles out of his prison cell?
(a) He goes through a trap door in the floor.
(b) He anesthetizes him and Barsard carries him out.
(c) He lowers a rope from the tower and climbs down.
(d) He slips out a secret passageway.

2. Who does Solomon blame for his secret identity being exposed?
(a) The Vengeance
(b) Lucie
(c) Doctor Manette
(d) His sister, Miss Pross

3. What has the wood-sawyer named his saw?
(a) My Dear Livelihood
(b) My Little Shaver
(c) My Sharp Razor
(d) My Little Guillotine

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

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

6. What is Sydney's intention now that Charles is out of the prison?
(a) He will be executed in Charles' place.
(b) He will escape through the trap door.
(c) He will declare his true identity at La Guillotine.
(d) He will wait for Charles to reach safety, then escape.

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

8. What words continue to repeat in Carton's mind as he wanders the streets throughout the night?
(a) Though we walk through the shadows of death
(b) I am the resurrection and the life.
(c) I am who I am.
(d) Father forgive them.

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

10. What does Carton believe will happen to Charles?
(a) He will perish.
(b) He will escape.
(c) He will talk his way out of his situation.
(d) He will commit suicide.

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

12. 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

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

14. What startles Lucie as she sits in her home listening to her father tell Little Lucie a story?
(a) Footsteps on the stairs
(b) A rock thrown at the window
(c) A rap on the door
(d) A drum in the distance

15. What is in the note Defarge brings to Mr. Lorry from Doctor Manette?
(a) The doctor says that Charles is safe.
(b) The doctor says that Charles has escaped.
(c) The doctor says that he has been captured.
(d) The doctor says that Charles is ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Doctor Manette go to see after delivering his news to Lucie?

2. What do the people of the city have to say about Sydney Carton's execution at La Guillotine?

3. What becomes of the first fifteen prisoners to go in front of the Tribunal before Charles?

4. What is Madame Defarge plotting?

5. What is the first thing Charles does when he is put in his cell?

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