Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper using COMPLETE SENTENCES. Do not begin any answer with a pronoun.

Chapter 1: "The Period"

1. How does Dickens begin this novel?

2. In what year does this novel begin?

3. What are the conditions in France?

4. What are the conditions in England?

5. What else was happening in 1775? (not in the book)

Chapter 2: "The Mail"

1. Why are the passengers walking up the hill instead of riding in the mail carriage?

2. Why are the passengers, guard, and coachman suspicious of one another and anyone else who comes along?

3. In what month, on what day and at what time does this chapter take place?

4. Who rides up to meet the coach?

5. What passenger is this person (#4) looking for?

6. What is the message Mr. Lorry receives?

7. What response does Mr. Lorry send in reply?

8. What do the other passengers do before Mr. Lorry returned to the carriage?

Chapter 3: "The Night Shadows"

1. How does Dickens let the reader know the characters want to be anonymous?

2. What does Jerry think about on the way back to the bank?

3. Mr. Lorry has a dream which begins in the middle of page 23. In this dream he is speaking with another person. What do the two men say in the dream (summarize)?

4. How long has the person been buried alive?

Chapter 4: "The Preparation"

1. Describe Mr. Lorry as he heads toward the breakfast room.

2. What countries does Tellson's bank serve?

3. Mr. Lorry asks the waiter to prepare a room for a young lady who will be joining him. He then tells the waiter it has been a long time "since we --- since I-- came last from France". How many years has it been?

4. Who arrives to meet Mr. Lorry?

5. About whom did Miss Manette say she received "intelligence -- or discovery"

6. What story does Mr. Lorry tell Miss Manette?

A Tale of Two Cities - Questions Book 1 Chapters 5 and 6

Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. Use COMPLETE SENTENCES. Do not begin responses with pronouns.

Chapter 5: "The Wine Shop"

1. How do the people respond to the broken wine cask?

2. What does the people's response to the broken wine cask tell you about the people?

3. What does "one tall joker so besmirched..." write on a wall in wine?

4. Given what the man writes, the fact that the wine is red, that it is all over the people's hands and work tools, what literary device would you say is Dickens employing?

5. Thinking about your answer to #4, what predictions can you make for the story?

6. What two words, both beginning with W, does Dickens use to describe the people and the town?

7. What is the name of the "tall joker" who wrote on the wall in wine?

8. What warning does Madam Defarge give her husband to let him know there are strangers in the wine shop?

9. Do you think it is a coincidence that all three men in the wine shop are named Jacques?

10. Where do the Jacques want to go?

11. What does Madam Defarge do after the men acknowledge her?

12. What is the old man doing when Monsieur Defarge, Mr. Lorry and Miss Manette enter the room?

Chapter 6 "The Shoemaker"

1. What is the old man’s state of mind?

2. What type of shoe is the old man in the cell making?

3. What name does the old man in the cell man go by?

4. What did the old shoemaker keep in the sack around his neck?

5. Who does the shoemaker think Miss Manette is?

6. How do they get the shoemaker out of town?

7. What does the shoemaker ask for before he leaves?

8. What is Madam Defarge doing as the group departs?

9. What does "recalled to life" mean?

BOOK TWO

A Tale of Two Cities Questions Book 2 Chapters 1 – 5

Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. Use complete sentences. Do not begin with pronouns.

Chapter 1: “Five Years Later”

1. How long has it been since the last book ended?

2. Describe Tellson’s Bank. 3. What is the main idea of this chapter?

Chapter 2: “The Sight”

1. What is Old Bailey?

2. What is Jerry asked to do?

3. What type of crime is on for the next case?

4. Describe the defendant. 5. What is the defendant’s name?

6. On whom does the defendant’s gaze land?

(give their names) 7. Why are these people (#6) there?

Chapter 3: “A Disappointment”

1. What is the first evidence presented against the defendant (page 1 of the chapter)?

2. What is the name of the first witness?

3. How does the defending attorney try to discredit the first witness?

4. What is the name of the second witness?

5. How does the defending attorney try to discredit the second witness?

6. What mood is created for the reader when Dickens uses the term “blue-flies” to describe the people watching the trial?

7. Who is the third witness?

8. What evidence does Dr. Manette supply?

9. What does the unidentified witness say?

10. What does the wigged gentleman who had been staring at the ceiling do?

11. What evidence does the defense attorney (Mr. Stryver) provide to prove the mysterious witness could have been mistaken?

12. What is the name of the “learned friend”?

13. What does Mr. Carton notice first?

14. What verdict is returned?

Mr. Lorry gives Jerry a message with the verdict on it. 15. What is carrion and how is Dickens using it?

Chapter 4: “Congratulatory”

1. What does Miss Manette do that makes Dickens refer to her as a “golden thread”?

2. What is Dr. Manette’s expression before all depart?

3. How do Mr. Carton and Mr. Lorry get along?

4. What do you learn about Mr. Carton from his conversation with Mr. Darnay?

5. What does Carton do at the end of the chapter?

Chapter 5: “The Jackal”

1. What is said about Mr. Stryver’s abilities on page 92?

2. Why is Carton referred to as a “jackal”?

3. What is the relationship between Stryver and Carton?

4. Why does Carton deny liking Miss Manette?

5. What type of person is Mr. Carton?

AToTC questions Book 2 Chapters 6 – 8

Answer the following questions using complete sentences.

Chapter 6: “Hundreds of People”

1. Where does Dr. Manette live?

2. How do echoes fit into the description of Dr. Manette’s house?

3. What type of Doctor is Dr. Manette?

4. Who is at home when Mr. Lorry arrives?

5. What is said about Miss Manette’s decorating ability?

6. Who is “ladybird”?

7. What type of woman is Miss Pross?

8. Who is the only person Miss Pross believes is worthy of Miss Manette?

9. What are we told about the person from #8?

10. Dr. Manette keeps the shoemaking tools in the house but does not talk about his time in prison. What reason does Miss Pross give for the doctor’s refusal to discuss this issue?

11. What happens when anyone mentions the imprisonment?

(string) 12. Miss Pross mentions hundreds of people a couple of times. What does she mean?

13. What causes Miss Pross’ “fit of jerks”?

14. Who joins the doctor and his daughter?

15. What topic does this person raise?

16. How does Dr. Manette react when he hears the story told by this person?

17. After reading this chapter, explain how the echoes are used as a foreshadow. 18. After reading this chapter, explain how the hundreds of people are used as a foreshadow. Chapter 7: “Monseigneur in Town”

1. What is a Monseigneur?

2. What country are we in in this chapter?

3. What does the description of the chocolate eating tell us about this character?

4. What did the Monseigneur do to raise money when he ran into debt?

5. Dickens describes the people around the Monseigneur as seeming to know nothing about their occupation or otherwise not fitting their station in life. What do these descriptions followed by the next paragraph tell us about the state of the Monseigneur’s dominion?

6. What does the carriage hit and what happens to it?

The Monseigneur is also called the Marquis. 7. What does the Marquis do when he realizes what has happened?

8. How do the people respond to the Marquis’ actions?

9. Who is the woman who is knitting?

Chapter 8: Monseigneur in the Country”

1. Describe the countryside. 2. What did the man say he was looking at?

3. Who is Monsieur Gabelle?

4. What petition is addressed to the Monseigneur by the woman?

5. Who is the Monseigneur expecting to visit him?

A Tale of Two Cities - Questions for Book 2 Chapters 9 and 10

Answer the following questions using complete sentences.

Chapter 9: "The Gorgon's Head"

1. What word is used to describe the chateau of the Marquis?

2. What does the Marquis ask the servant to do after finishing the soup?

3. Why does the Marquis make this request?

4. Who is the Marquis' nephew?

5. The nephew and uncle begin by talking about business, pursuing an object, and peril. What are they discussing?

6. What does the nephew accuse the uncle of doing to him?

7. What observation does the nephew make about their name and the people's reaction to him?

8. How does the uncle respond to the nephew's observations?

9. What literary device is Dickens using when he describes the uncle's diabolic smile?

10. What words does Dickens use to describe the sunrise?

11. How do these words affect the reader's reaction to the description?

(Think imagery.) 12. What happened to the Marquis by the end of the chapter?

13. What did the note say?

Chapter 10: "Two Promises"

14. How long has it been since the end of Chapter 9?

15. Where is Darnay and what is he doing?

16. What subject does Darnay wish to speak about to Dr. Manette?

17. How does the Doctor respond to this subject?

18. What promise does Darnay ask for?

19. Darnay wants to tell the Doctor something. What is it and how does the doctor respond?

20. What can you infer from the information you already know about this novel and the answers to #6?

A Tale of Two Cities - Questions for Chapters 11 – 14

Answer the following questions using COMPLETE SENTENCES.

Chapter 11: "A Companion Picture"

1. Which characters are talking as this chapter opens?

2. What is Stryver's opinion of himself with women compared to Sydney Carton?

3. Who does Stryver intend to marry?

4. What does Stryver suggest Carton do?

Chapter 12: “The Fellow of Delicacy”

1. What doubts does Stryver express about his ability to win over Miss Manette’s heart?

2. To whom does Stryver intend to tell his plans (on his way to Soho.) 3. How does Mr. Lorry receive the news of Stryver’s plans?

4. What advice does Mr. Lorry offer?

5. How does Stryver receive this advice?

6. Mr. Lorry offers to go to Soho and find out if Mr. Stryver’s plan would be accepted. Later in the day, Mr. Lorry returns with his news. Stryver says a long speech. Summarize the main points of this diatribe. 7. What impression of Mr. Stryver are you left with at the end of the chapter?

Chapter 13: “A Fellow of No Delicacy”

1. What two M words does Dickens use to describe Carton?

2. Where does Carton go?

3. What is Miss Manette surprised and saddened to see?

4. What does Carton say to Miss Manette?

(Summarize the main points.) 5. How does Miss Manette respond to Mr. Carton?

6. What does Carton say to Miss Manette right before he says “farewell”?

Chapter 14: “The Honest Tradesman”

1. Who is in this chapter when it opens and what is this character doing?

2. Dickens compares this character to something. What is it?

3. What does this character see?

4. Who has died and where did we see this character before?

5. What does the crowd do?

6. What does Jerry do in the middle of the night?

A Tale of Two Cities - Questions for Book 2 Chapters 15 – 20

Chapter 15: "knitting"

1. How does the wine affect the people in the bar?

2. Who arrives at the wine shop with Mr. Defarge?

3. What is this person's name?

4. Who are the three men who leave the wine shop?

5. Where does the person arriving with Mr. Defarge plan to stay?

6. Summarize the story the person who arrives with Mr. Defarge tells the Jacques. 7. Where is the tall man left by the soldiers?

8. What is the worst part about the fate of the tall man?

9. Where are the Jacques keeping their records of the revolution?

Chapter 16: "Still Knitting"

1. Where do Mr. and Mme. Defarge go at the beginning of the chapter?

2. What is the name of the spy?

3. What does Mme. Defarge do when the stranger walks in?

4. What is significant about the stranger admiring the pattern of Mme. Defarge's knitting?

5. How does the spy try to trick Mr. Defarge?

6. What news does the spy bring?

7. How does Mme. Defarge take this news?

8. How does Mr. Defarge take this news?

Chapter 17: "One Night"

1. Where does this chapter begin?

2. What is so special about this night?

3. Where will Lucie live after tomorrow?

Chapter 18: "Nine Days"

1. What happens to Dr. Manette after the wedding?

2. How do Mr. Lorry and Miss Pross hide the doctor's condition?

3. Why do they hide the doctor's condition?

4. What caused Dr. Manette's behavior?

(Remember facts from previous chapters and make an inference.) Chapter 19: "An Opinion"

1. How is the doctor when Mr. Lorry visits him?

2. Mr. Lorry begins to ask the doctor for his opinion of a friend's condition. Summarize this condition. 3. Mr. Lorry is speaking hypothetically about a friend. From what can you infer the doctor knows the "friend" is himself?

4. What is the doctor's diagnosis?

5. What question causes Lorry to suggest the friend is a blacksmith?

6. How does the doctor respond to this question?

7. What are Mr. Lorry and Miss Pross doing at the end of this chapter?

8. Why do Mr. Lorry and Miss Pross feel guilty?

9. Where is Dr. Manette at the end of the chapter?

Chapter 20: "A Plea"

1. Who visits the newlyweds immediately?

2. What does Mr. Carton ask of Mr. Darnay (after some dialogue about speaking lightly)?

3. What does Lucie say to her husband about Carton?

4. What words does Darnay used to address Lucie?

Book 2 Chapters 21 – 24

1. In chapter 21, Dickens tells us a bit about the Darnay family (Lucie, Charles, etc.). What do we learn?

2. What do the people in Saint Antoine do in chapter 21?

3. Why do they search for North Tower 105?

Chapter 22

1. Who is the Vengeance?

2. What happens to Foulon?

Chapter 23

1. Describe what happens to Gabelle. 2. Why do you think the people are after Gabelle?

3. Remember who the new Marquis is and what his policies regarding the people are. Now, what does the act against Gabelle tell you about the safety of Darnay should he return to Paris?

Chapter 24

1. Why is Mr. Lorry going to France?

2. Who sends a letter to the Marquis?

3. What does the letter from #2 say?

4. Why does Darnay decide to go to France?

Book 3

1. Describe Darnay’s journey to France?

2. Describe Darnay’s first trial in France. Who saves him?

3. At Darnay’s second trail, there is a surprise witness. Who is this witness?

4. What does the letter from Dr. Manette read in court say about Darnay’s uncle and father?

5. Who wins the fight between Miss Pross and Mme Defarge?

6. To whom is Barsad related?

7. Explain Carton’s plan for helping Darnay escape. 8. What happens to Carton in the end?