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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Madame Defarge reveal about her past?
(a) She is the sister of Doctor Manette.
(b) She has an English stepsister.
(c) She is the other sister of the wounded boy discussed at Darnay's trial.
(d) She was actually born in England.

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

3. What is the plan Doctor Manette tells to Lucie so that Charles can see her from a prison window?
(a) She comes to the prison disguised as a fruit vendor.
(b) She stands outside the prison dressed in leper's robes.
(c) She comes to the prison after dark so he can see her.
(d) She stands outside at three in the afternoon and he will be able to see her.

4. What does Madame Defarge carry inside her coat as she walks through the streets of Paris?
(a) A pistol and a dagger
(b) A flag of the Republic
(c) Her knitting
(d) A vile of poison

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mr. Lorry's plan for the safe departure of Lucie, her daughter, her father, her husband, Miss Pross, and Jerry Cruncher?

2. What is one of the frenzied aspirations of the people?

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

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

5. What is the verdict rendered to Charles Darnay?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the reaction of the crowd in the courtyard have toward Doctor Manette when he reveals who he is.

2. Describe what Little Lucie remembers about Sydney Carton years later.

3. There is a knock on Doctor Manette's door. Who is knocking and what is their purpose?

4. What are the three letters Charles writes from prison before his scheduled execution, and who does he forget?

5. How does Lucie make herself known to Charles each day?

6. How does Doctor Manette manage to communicate messages between Charles and Lucie?

7. Summarize the contents of the note Charles sends to Lucie.

8. Describe how La Guillotine is used as a symbol of the patriots.

9. Describe the reaction of Miss Pross when she sees her brother in the marketplace.

10. Describe how the patriots of France look upon Charles Darnay.

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