Test yourself on A Tale of Two Cities: 30 quiz questions with the answer explained, and 40 flashcards on the characters, places, themes and turning points. Free, no sign-up.
What does Lorry reveal to Lucie at Dover?
Where do Lorry and Lucie find Doctor Manette?
What helps stir Doctor Manette’s memories when Lucie approaches?
What charge does Darnay face at the Old Bailey?
What undermines the identification of Darnay at his trial?
Whose legal arguments does Carton prepare?
According to Miss Pross, who calms Manette during troubled nights?
How does the Marquis respond after his carriage kills a child?
What does the road mender report seeing beneath the Marquis’s carriage?
What does Darnay reject during his confrontation with his uncle?
When does Manette agree to hear Darnay’s real name?
What does Carton promise Lucie?
What hidden business does Jerry Cruncher pursue?
How does Madame Defarge record revolutionary targets?
What happens to Manette after Lucie’s wedding?
What do Lorry and Miss Pross do with the shoemaking equipment?
What does Lucie ask Darnay to remember about Carton?
What does Defarge search during the storming of the Bastille?
How do villagers respond when the chateau burns?
Why does Darnay secretly leave for Paris?
Where is Darnay confined after reaching Paris?
Why does Lucie wait daily near Darnay’s prison?
What helps secure Darnay’s acquittal before the Tribunal?
Who does Miss Pross recognize as her brother Solomon?
What turns Manette’s past suffering against Darnay at the later trial?
Why does Madame Defarge have a personal hatred of the Evrémonde family?
How does Carton enable Darnay to leave the prison?
Who manages the family’s passage through the city barrier?
What lasting injury does Miss Pross suffer in her struggle with Madame Defarge?
Whom does Carton comfort before his execution?
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