A Tale of Two Cities Quizzes

A Tale of Two Cities Quiz 1

1 Which two cities does the title refer to?
London and Paris

Paris and Berlin

London and Rome

London and Liverpool
2 Mr. Lorry is a
mail-coach driver

barrister

banker

solicitor
3 What is the message that Mr. Lorry sends via the messenger from Tellson's Bank?
"abort mission"

"continue as planned"

"recalled to life"

"turn around"
4 Who delivers the message to Mr. Lorry?
Jerry Cruncher

Mr. Stryver

Sydney Carton

Dr. Manette
5 What does Mr. Lorry tell Lucie Manette?
She is his daughter

She has inherited a large sum of money

Her father is still alive

She is to be tried for treason
6 How long was Doctor Manette imprisoned in the Bastille?
a day

8 years

25 years

18 years
7 What does Gaspard write on the wall in wine and mud?
i am hungry

his name

blood

wine
8 What is the name that Defarge called himself and the other revolutionaries?
Baptiste

Jacques

Henri

Jann
9 What hobby did Dr. Manette pick up in prison?
knitting

shoemaking

blacksmithing

novel-writing
10 In what year does this novel begin?
1783

1793

1767

1775
11 What is Charles Darnay tried for in England?
petty theft

robbery

murder

treason
12 Why is Darnay acquitted?
he has an alibi

he resembles Carton

he has a brilliant defense lawyer

he proves that he is not French
13 Which gentleman does not want to marry Lucie?
Sydney Carton

Mr. Lorry

Charles Darnay

Mr. Stryver
14 Where do Darnay and Carton go together after the trial?
Paris

the Manettes' house

the Thames

a tavern
15 Where in London do the Manettes live?
Kensington

Whitefriars

Soho

Fleet Street
16 What does Miss Pross call Lucie Manette?
"sweetheart"

"daughter"

"my Ladybird"

"a golden-haired doll"
17 What is the most noticeable feature of the Manettes' house?
its proximity to Temple Bar

the resounding echoes from the street

the musty smell

the sunniness of the front room
18 How many books is the novel divided into?
five

three

two

seven
19 What does Lucie think the echoes in her house mean?
people are coming to intrude in her family's life

Soho is urbanizing very fast

she should shut her front door

the walls are too thin
20 What does "Monseigneur" mean?
"the king"

"my lord"

"the man"

"my man"
21 What does not happen on the Marquis's way home in his carriage?
he gives Defarge a coin

he runs over a little boy

he stops for a meal

he refuses to erect a gravestone for a woman's husband
22 Monseigneur is
Charles Darnay's uncle

Lucie's husband

Dr. Manette's brother

Charles Darnay's father
23 Charles Darnay does not
help tumble the Bastille

get persecuted by the French lower class

sympathize with the peasants's plight

renounce his aristocratic title
24 Monseigneur is murdered by
Mr. Lorry

Charles Darnay

Dr. Manette

someone who calls himself Jacques
25 Charles Darnay's moonlighting profession is
"resurrection-man"

teacher

street cleaner

lawyer