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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Book the First: Chapter One “The Period”

1. How were times both good and bad?

2. Who is the “King with the large jaw” in England?

Who is the “Queen with the plain face” in England?

Who is the “King with a large jaw” in France?

Who is the “Queen with a fair face” in France?

3. The woodman is ___________, the Farmer is ________________.

4. What is “a certain movable framework with a sack and a knife in it, terrible in history” (p 8)?

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Chapter Two “The Mail”

1. What is the setting of this chapter? Time _________________________, and

Place___________________________.

2. Why are the characters so suspicious of each other?

3. The mood is _________________________________.

4. Where did the message for Jarvis Lorry come from?

5. What is the message?

6. What is Mr. Lorry’s reply?

7. Does Jerry understand the message? Do you understand?

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Chapter Three “The Night Shadows”

1. Describe Jerry Cruncher (p 16).

2. How long has this mysterious someone been buried alive?

3. Since a person could not literally survive being buried alive, what might this phrase mean?

4. What does Mr. Lorry’s dream suggest about his purpose for making the trip?

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Chapter Four “The Preparation”

1. Describe Mr. Lorry.

2. Describe Lucie.

3. Is this the first time Lucie and Mr. Lorry have ever met?

4. Why didn’t Lucie’s mother tell her that her father was alive?

5. Where is Lucie’s father?

6. What does Mr. Lorry’s method of telling the news to Lucie reveal about him?

7. Dickens lightens the serious tone of this chapter by his description of “a wild looking woman” and her behavior (p 30). What is the relationship of the “wild woman to Miss Lucie Manette?

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Chapter Five “The Wine Shop”

The setting is now Saint Antoine, a poor suburb of Paris, France.

1. What do the people do when a “large cask of wine had been dropped and broken, in the street?”

2. What might the red wine symbolize?

3. Beginning on page 33, Dickens personifies “Hunger” and “Want.” Why?

4. In what activity is Madame Defarge constantly engaged?

5. How does Monsieur Defarge feel about what has happened to Dr. Manette?

6. What had been Monsieur Defarge’s relationship to Miss Manette’s father?

7. Why is Dr. Manette in a locked, secluded room?

8. What does Dr. Manette do in the dimly-lit room?

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Chapter Six “The Shoemaker”

1. How does Dr. Manette act at the beginning of the chapter?

2. What did Dr. Manette give as his name?

3. Why does Dr. Manette remove a bit of cloth tied around his neck and take from it two golden hairs?

4. What is the connection between Miss Manette’s attempt to make her father weep and the title of Book the First “Recalled to Life?”

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Book the Second: Chapter One “Five Years Later”

1. Tellson’s Bank in England is described in a humorous and ironic way. Describe Tellson’s Bank.

2. What happened to a person who committed a crime against the bank?

3. What does Jerry Cruncher do at Tellson’s?

4. What is Jerry Cruncher’s attitude toward his wife’s praying?

5. Why might Mrs. Cruncher be praying for Jerry?

6. What clues does Dickens give about Jerry Cruncher’s other job?

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Chapter Two “A Sight”

1. The judicial system at the Old Bailey is described on page 65, as “Whatever is is right.” Explain.

2. What is the defendant’s name?

3. What is the charge against him?

4. If he is found guilty what will be his punishment?

5. In the late eighteenth century, people attended trials in the same way that we go to the movies – for entertainment. What is the atmosphere in the courtroom?

6. Who are “the two figures, a young lady of little more than twenty, and a gentleman who was evidently her father” (69)?

7. Does the final sentence of the chapter make you feel optimistic or pessimistic about the defendant’s chances?

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Chapter Three “A Disappointment”

1. Who are the first two witnesses against Darnay?

2. Considering the mocking tone and the false testimony of these two witnesses, how strong would you judge the prosecution’s case to be?

3. How does Lucie feel about testifying to Darnay’s presence and activities on the boat?

4. Explain the George Washington jest on page 77.

5. Who are the two wigged gentlemen, the one who defend the accused (the prisoner’s counsel)__________________________ and the other who stares at the ceiling (name of my learned friend)?___________________________

6. Several times throughout the description of the trial, the narrator refers to the “buzzing blue flies.” What idea does he convey with this figurative expression?

7. What coincidence saves the prisoner’s life?

8. Although the prisoner is acquitted (found not guilty), Dickens has titled this chapter “A Disappointment.” Why?

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Chapter Four “Congratulatory”

1. Has Dr. Manette completely recovered from his ordeal in prison?

2. Is any reason provided for Dr. Manette’s reaction to Charles Darnay?

3. Describe Mr. Stryver.

4. In what way is his name a clue to his character?

5. Why is Mr. Lorry annoyed with Carton in the discussion on pages 85 & 86?

6. Why does Carton assert that he hates Darnay?

7. Compare and contrast Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay.

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Chapter Five “The Jackal”

1. A jackal eats only what the lion leaves behind. How does the relationship of Carton and Stryver parallel that of the lion and jackal?

2. Why does Stryver call Carton “Memory” on page 91?

3. In what ways is Sydney Carton his own worst enemy?

4. For which of the two characters in this chapter does Dickens create sympathy? (For whom does Dickens want you to feel sorry?)

5. Explain the last paragraph of Chapter Five. What mood is Dickens trying to create?

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Chapter Six “Hundreds of People”

1. How long after the trial does the action of this chapter take place?

2. Dr. Manette “received … patients … and he earned as much as he wanted” (97). What does this tell you about his financial status?

3. Who is “the wild red woman, strong of hand, whose acquaintance [Mr. Lorry] had first made at the Royal George Hotel at Dover” (98)?

4. What new character, mentioned by Miss Pross, do you hear about for the first time in this chapter?

5. Describe the Manette home.

6. Who comes to visit the Manettes?

7. How does Dr. Manette react to Charles’s story about the prisoner in the Tower of London?

8. What purpose do you think the footsteps, the echoes, the rainstorm, and the repeated reference to many people are meant to serve?

9. What do you make of Mr. Lorry’s conversation with Jerry?

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Chapter Seven “Monseigneur in Town”

The setting is back in Saint Antoine, a poor suburb of Paris, France.

1. Why do you think Dickens describes in such detail Monseigneur having his chocolate?

2. For some reason, the Monseigneur has snubbed Monsieur the Marquis, and as the Marquis races through the streets, what happens?

3. What is the significance of the gold coin to the Marquis?

4. What is the significance of the gold coin to Defarge?

5. Is the accident with the carriage an isolated incident involving one cruel man,

or would you say this is probably the kind of thing that happened all the time?

6. Who are compared to “rats” and why is that an appropriate comparison?

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Chapter Eight “Monseigneur in the Country”

1. Compare and contrast the village’s poor street and the chateau.

2. What has the “mender of roads” seen under the Marquis’s carriage?

3. Who is Monsieur Gabelle?

4. Who is Monsieur Charles?

5. Why has Dickens devoted two chapters to Monsieur the Marquis, a minor character?

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Chapter Nine: “The Gorgon’s Head”

1. On page 123, Monsieur the Marquis (also addressed as Monseigneur, a French title of honor given to princes, bishops, and other persons of importance) thinks he sees something. Read the rest of this chapter, and then answer what you think was by the window behind the blind.

2. In what ways are Charles and his uncle different?

3. Charles and his uncle have an important, but confusing conversation starting on page 124. Charles has come to see his uncle “pursuing the object that took me away” (124), that is, he is trying to find out about something. His uncle does not want him to know whatever it is. In fact, Charles suspects that his uncle was responsible for the treason trial in England. “Indeed sir, for anything I know you may have expressly worked to give a more suspicious appearance” (125). Why has Charles’s uncle not been able to secure a letter de cachet to get rid of Charles?

4. How is Charles’s father related to the Marquis?

5. What does Charles say he will do when he inherits the chateau?

6. At the end of the chapter, we find the Marquis is murdered. In what way does the message on the hilt of the knife provide a clue to the identity of the murderer?

7. In Chapters 7 & 8, you saw the conditions under which the peasants lived. How is the murder in this chapter related to those conditions?

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Chapter Ten “Two Promises”

1. How long has it been since Darnay’s return from France?

2. How has Darnay been employed since his return?

3. What are the two promises in this chapter?

4. What is the Doctor’s reaction when Darnay tells him of his love for Lucie?

5. What is the Doctor’s reaction after Darnay has left?

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Chapter Eleven “A Companion Picture”

1. What does Mr. Stryver tell Sydney that he intends to do?

2. List some of the adjectives that describe Stryver.

3. Who did Stryver want to marry?

4. How does Stryver’s confession of his intention affect Sydney Carton?

5. Since Stryver thinks that Sydney is “in a bad way” (144), what advice does he give him?

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Chapter Twelve “The Fellow of Delicacy”

1. Define delicacy.

2. Since we usually refer to taking the future bride’s hand in marriage, what do we learn about Mr. Stryver’s intent to “give her his hand” (145)?

3. How does Mr. Lorry respond when Stryver tells him, “I am going to make an offer of myself in marriage to your agreeable little friend” (146)?

4. Why does Lorry talk Stryver into waiting to propose?

5. When Mr. Lorry reports back to Stryver that evening, what is Stryver’s response?

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Chapter Thirteen “The Fellow of No Delicacy”

1. How does Sydney Carton feel about himself?

2. How does Lucie feel about Carton?

3. Darnay, Stryver, and Carton all declare their devotion to Lucie, each in their own way. Compare the behavior of the three men.

4. What new side of Sydney Carton’s nature is revealed in this chapter?

5. Carton makes Lucie a promise. What is it?

6. In Chapters 12 & 13, Dickens refers to Stryver as “The Fellow of Delicacy” and Carton as “The Fellow of No Delicacy.” Why?

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Chapter Fourteen “The Honest Tradesman”

1. Where have you met “the spy” Roger Cly before?

2. Who do you suppose is the “one mourner” (158) at his funeral?

3. Where does Jerry tell his wife and son that he is going?

4. Does Jerry’s wife know where he is really going?

5. What kind of luck did Jerry have on this “fishing” trip?

6. What does Young Jerry hear when he awakes the morning after the “fishing” trip?

7. What respectable-sounding job title does Jerry Cruncher give his occupation?

8. What special purpose does Jerry Cruncher serve in this novel?

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Chapter Fifteen “Knitting”

1. Why are the Defarges so secretive?

2. Why do the five men meet in the garret above the wine shop?

3. What has happened to the man who was under the carriage?

4. What is Dickens’s purpose in revealing in detail the execution of the Marquis’s murderer?

5. For what does Jacques Three hunger?

6. In what ways do the raising of the gallows and the hanging of the murderer poison the water in the fountain?

7. After the road mender has given his testimony, what decision is reached?

8. Whom will this decision affect?

9. What is the purpose of the secret register and how is it kept?

10. Who are the “richest” (178) dolls and “the birds of the finest feathers” (178) to which Madame Defarge figuratively refers?

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Chapter Sixteen “Still Knitting”

1. Where has Barsad appeared before?

2. What is the significance of the rose?

3. What is Madame Defarge doing while she is talking with John Barsad?

4. Why do you think Madame Defarge does not defend Gaspard’s actions (185)?

5. What news does Barsad give the Defarges about Lucie Manette?

6. How do the Defarges differ in their feelings about Lucie’s marriage?

7. To what does “counting dropping heads” (189) refer?

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Chapter Seventeen “One Night”

1. How does Lucie describe her feelings for Charles when she is speaking with her father?

2. How does Dr. Manette explain to Lucie that his “future is far brighter” (190) now that she is marrying?

3. Who are to be at Charles’s and Lucie’s wedding?

4. Describe Lucie’s relationship with her father.

5. How will Lucie’s relationship with her father change when she is married?

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Chapter Eighteen “Nine Days”

1. Miss Pross’s brother Solomon has been mentioned before. Why does Dickens mention him again?

2. Why do you suppose Dr. Manette is pale after his discussion with Charles? Refer to Chapter Ten “Two Promises.” On page 140, Charles wishes to tell the Doctor his real name, and why he is in England.

3. What happens to Dr. Manette shortly after Lucie and Charles leave?

4. Who takes care of Dr. Manette?

5. Why is Mr. Lorry concerned that Dr. Manette “was growing dreadfully skillful” (200) as a shoemaker?

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Chapter Nineteen “An Opinion”

1. Just after his recovery, what made Dr. Manette uneasy?

2. How does Mr. Lorry go about presenting his problem to Dr. Manette?

3. Why does he use this approach?

4. At what other time in the novel did we see Mr. Lorry combining a business-like approach with a sensitive concern for another person?

5. What purpose did the making of shoes serve for Dr. Manette, both in prison and during his relapse?

6. How did Mr. Lorry finally persuade Dr. Manette to give up his shoemaker’s bench and tools?

7. Who disposed of the shoemaker’s bench and tools, and how?

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Chapter Twenty “A Plea”

1. Sydney Carton was “the first person who appeared, to offer his congratulations” (208) to the newly-married pair. He had a “certain rugged air of fidelity about him.” Why? What does fidelity mean?

2. What was Sydney Carton’s plea?

3. How do Charles and Lucie react to this plea?

4. What part of Sydney Carton’s nature is revealed in this chapter?

5. Do you think that Lucie’s confidence in Sydney Carton is justified? Explain.

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Chapter Twenty One “Echoing Footsteps”

This chapter starts peacefully in London, England, and ends violently in Paris, France.

1. Was Lucie’s life as a new young wife completely happy?

2. How often did Sydney Carton come to visit?

3. How did Lucie’s children treat Sydney?

4. How is the passage of time indicated?

5. The two scenes in this chapter are dramatically contrasted. What is that contrast and how does Dickens weave the scenes together?

6. What lines in the middle of page 217 show why the peasants were so willing to risk their own lives on the streets?

7. Why does Monsieur Defarge search 105 North Tower?

8. Does Dickens tell you what Defarge is searching for?

9. Does Defarge find what he is looking for?

10. What does Madame Defarge do to the “grim old officer conspicuous in his grey coat and red decoration” (221-222)?

11. What warning is contained in the last paragraph of Chapter 21?

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Chapter Twenty Two “The Sea Still Rises”

1. The title of this chapter is a metaphor. What two things are being compared?

2. What is the complimentary name of “the short, rather plump wife of a starved grocer” (224) who was one of Madame Defarge’s sisterhood?

3. What did Foulon tell the famished people?

4. What happens to Foulon?

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Chapter Twenty Three “Fire Rises”

1. How is France described now that the Revolution has begun?

2. What did the mender of roads and the tall man mean when they joined hands and said, “To-night” (231)?

3. Why was it a waste for the rider from the chateau to cry for help?

4. What else was “forty feet high”?

5. Why wasn’t Gabelle dragged out and executed on the spot?

6. Who is the real owner of the chateau?

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Chapter Twenty Four “Drawn to the Loadstone Rock”

The “Loadstone Rock” image is important. It is a mythical rock, which was thought to draw ships at sea to their destruction by magnetic attraction of their iron parts. The expression is now used to refer to something evil or tempting.

1. What does “Monseigneur” in this chapter represent?

2. Where did members of the wealthy class send their money for safekeeping when conditions in France deteriorated?

3. What draws Mr. Lorry to Paris?

4. What is ironic about Mr. Lorry’s confidence in Jerry’s innocent simplicity as a bodyguard, and therefore, as a suitable traveling companion?

5. What is ironic about Mr. Stryver’s accusations against the Marquis’s nephew?

6. Why does Darnay decide to go to Paris?

7. What is Charles’s “Loadstone Rock”?

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Book the Third: Chapter One “In Secret”

1. Who is the “traveller” (251) in the first paragraph?

2. At the end of Book the Second, Darnay appears to be unaware of the dangers involved in his returning to Paris. Describe the events in this chapter that change his attitude.

3. On what charge is Darnay arrested?

4. What decree (254) (not yet passed) is injurious to Charles Darnay?

5. In Book the First, Dr. Manette had been unjustly arrested under the laws of the royal government. What does Darnay’s arrest show about the “justice” of the new laws?

6. What do you think are Defarge’s real feelings toward Darnay?

7. What (or who) is the reason that Defarge chooses not to show his real feelings to Darnay?

8. In what way are the prisoners “ghosts” (260)?

9. What are “these crawling creatures” that Darnay finds in his mattress that give him a “sick feeling” (262)?

10. When left alone in his cell, why does Charles say, “He made shoes, he made shoes, he made shoes” (262)?

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Chapter Two “The Grindstone”

1. Why is it ironic that on page 264, Mr. Lorry says, “Thank God that no one near and dear to me is in this dreadful town to-night”?

2. Why does Dr. Manette think that he can help Charles?

3. The grindstone symbolizes the bloody brutality of the mob. What were the people sharpening on the grindstone?

4. What were the people doing with these sharpened instruments?

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Chapter Three “The Shadow”

1. Why did Mr. Lorry feel that he might be hurting Tellson’s Bank?

2. How did Mr. Lorry solve the problem of potentially hurting Tellson’s?

3. Why do you suppose Defarge spoke in “a curiously reserved and mechanical way” (270)?

4. How does Defarge explain Madame Defarge’s desire to meet Lucie?

5. Why might Madame Defarge’s interest in little Lucie be ominous?

6. How does Madame Defarge explain that she feels no “sisterly pity” for Lucie, Charles, and their child?

7. The word shadow is used several times in relation to Madame Defarge. Supposing that this shadow is not actually cast by her body, what particular significance do you think the word has?

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Chapter Four “Calm in Storm”

1. Which one of the Tribunal identified Dr. Manette?

2. What phrases describe the members of the tribunal?

3. How old is Doctor Manette in this chapter?

4. What is different about Doctor Manette?

5. In what ways is Doctor Manette able to be of help to Charles, to Lucie, and to others?

6. What are some jokes about La Guillotine?

7. What are some religious references in the description of La Guillotine and its “functionary who worked it” (278)?

8. Why is it ironic to refer to La Guillotine in a religious manner?

Name:_________________________

Chapter Five “The Wood-sawyer”

1. Explain the meaning of the sentence on page 280, “Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; -- the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!”

2. What did Lucie do every single day to show her devotion to Charles?

3. Earlier in the book, you met the wood sawyer. What was he called?

4. How might the wood sawyer’s presence in Paris be a threat to Lucie?

5. What descriptive details make the Carmagnole frightening rather than joyous?

6. What does it mean that, “Charles is summoned for to-morrow” (284)?

7. Who do you think is “the owner of the riding coat upon the chair” (285)?

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Chapter Six “Triumph”

1. What is Charles’s true family name?

2. How does the mob react to the evidence and the testimony presented in the trial?

3. Whose testimony marks the turning point in the trial?

4. What is Charles’s reaction as the people “put him in a great chair…and carried him…on men’s shoulders” (291)?

5. Compare this trial at the Conciergerie to Charles’s previous trial at the Old Bailey.

Conciergerie – French__________________Old Bailey – English

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Chapter Seven “A Knock at the Door”

1. What is written “on the door or door post of every house” (293)?

2. What does it mean that Miss Pross and Mr. Cruncher “had discharged the office of purveyors” (293)?

3. Why hadn’t Miss Pross ever learned the French language?

4. Who has denounced Charles, resulting in his re-arrest?

Name:_________________________

Chapter Eight “A Hand at Cards”

1. Why did Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher want to buy wine (298)?

2. What is the true identity of John Barsad?

3. Who does Mr. Lorry’s visitor (wearing a “riding coat”) turn out to be?

4. What does “a Sheep of the Prisons” mean?

5. Dickens uses an extended metaphor, playing a hand of cards, in this chapter. Carton needs to be convincing and be able to have something on the spy. What “good cards” does Carton hold?

6. What “ace” does Carton play against Barsad?

7. What terrifies Barsad that Carton doesn’t even know about?

8. Who confirms that Roger Cly was not dead?

9. How did he know that Roger Cly was not dead?

10. Why is the information about Cly important?

Name:_________________________

Chapter Nine “The Game Made”

1. What defense did Jerry Cruncher make to Mr. Lorry about his occupation as an “Agricultooral character” (311)?

2. What did Carton get from Barsad in exchange for Carton’s silence?

3. How does Mr. Lorry now view Carton?

4. Why does Carton not want Lucie to know that he has gained access to the prison?

5. Why do you think that Carton tells Mr. Lorry, “I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age” (315)?

6. Why does Carton walk through the town?

7. What kinds of drugs do you think that Carton bought from the chemist?

8. Why do you think that Carton repeats the words, “I am the resurrection and the life” (317, 318, 319)?

9. Why did Carton carry the little girl across the muddy street?

10. In court, how did Lucie’s look influence Charles?

11. How did Lucie’s look influence Sydney Carton? Why?

12. Who are the three who openly denounce Charles?

13. What did Defarge find at 105 North Tower when the Bastille was attacked? (Refer to page 221.)

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Chapter Ten “The Substance of the Shadow”

In Chapter Three, “The Shadow” indicates impending evil and misfortune cast by Madame Defarge. On page 274, Mr. Lorry says, “A shadow indeed! No substance in it, Lucie.” This chapter explains what is behind the shadow and we will find out later (page 344) why Madame Defarge is so bent on revenge. This chapter explains “The Substance of the Shadow.”

1. Who were the twin brothers?

2. Which one have you met earlier in the novel?

3. What kind of men were the Evermonde brothers?

4. How did Dr. Manette meet the Evermonde twins?

5. What story does the raving woman’s brother tell Dr. Manette?

6. In what ways is the sad story of this family related to the major themes of the book: love and resurrection; injustice and revolution?

7. After the boy and his sister died, what did Dr. Manette do?

8. The wife of the Marquis came to visit Dr. Manette before he completed his letter to the Minister. Who was with her?

9. The raving woman’s brother (330) and the wife of the Marquis (334) mention a young sister. Which character in the novel might this sister be?

10. What happened to Dr. Manette’s letter?

11. What happened to Dr. Manette?

12. How did Dr. Manette’s letter that he wrote from his prison conclude?

13. What decision did the Tribunal make?

Name:_________________________

Chapter Eleven “Dusk”

1. As Charles is condemned, who allows Lucie to embrace her husband?

2. How does Charles explain that he is not angry with Dr. Manette?

3. What happens to Lucie as Charles is taken from her sight?

4. Who carries Lucie to her coach, and then carries her to their rooms?

5. What is meant by Carton’s whispered comment to Lucie on page 339, “A life you love”? Refer to page 156.

6. Why does Sydney Carton encourage Dr. Manette to go and try to secure Charles’s release?

Name:_________________________

Chapter Twelve “Darkness”

1. What is Sydney Carton’s object in going to the wine shop?

2. Why does Carton pretend that he does not understand French very well when he goes to the wine shop?

3. Explain why Defarge and his wife have different opinions on what should happen to Darnay’s family.

4. What effect does his unsuccessful attempt to help Charles have on Doctor Manette?

5. What traveling arrangements have been made?

6. What directions did Sydney Carton give to Mr. Lorry?

7. Why do you think Carton “breathed a blessing… and a Farewell” as he looked up at Lucie’s window?

8. What do you think Sydney Carton plans to do?

Name:_________________________

Chapter Thirteen “Fifty-two”

1. What is Charles thinking about and doing at the beginning of this chapter?

2. How did Charles act when Carton appeared and began telling him to exchange clothes with him?

3. Why did Carton ask Darnay to write a letter?

4. Why is it significant that Carton meet the poor little seamstress on the way to the guillotine?

5. Does Lucie’s carriage escape safely?

6. What does the chapter title “Fifty-two” mean?

Name:_________________________

Chapter Fourteen “The Knitting Done”

1. Why doesn’t Madame Defarge confide in her husband her plans for Lucie?

2. Why does Madame Defarge decide to visit Lucie on the day of the execution?

3. Miss Pross and Jerry planned to leave Paris at 3:00. Did they know whom Solomon (Barsad) brought to the carriage?

4. What two promises does Jerry Cruncher make to Miss Pross?

5. How do we know that Miss Pross does not understand what Jerry promises?

6. Why does Jerry hope that “Mrs. Cruncher may be a flopping at the present time” (368)?

7. Miss Pross and Jerry decide that it might awaken suspicion for another carriage to leave from the same place, so they decide that Jerry will pick Miss Pross up from what location?

8. Explain Madame Defarge and Miss Pross’s encounter.

9. What happens to Miss Pross?

Name:_________________________

Chapter Fifteen “The Footsteps Die Out for Ever”

1. What is Barsad’s reaction to the citizen who cries, “Down, Evremonde” (376)?

2. What could have prompted Barsad’s reaction?

3. Why is The Vengeance particularly upset that Theresa Defarge is not present to witness the tumbrils and the beheadings?

4. What do you think prompts Carton to sacrifice himself so that Darnay might live?

5. How does Carton’s sacrifice enable him at last to find fulfillment?

6. What kind of life would Carton probably envision for Lucie?

7. Describe the child who is named after Sydney Carton.

8. A Tale of Two Cities begins with the famous quote, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”(7), and ends with an equally famous quote. Explain the final sentence of the novel. “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known” (380).

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