A Tale of Two Cities Quizzes

A Tale of Two Cities Quiz 1

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

London and Rome

Paris and Berlin

London and Paris
2 Mr. Lorry is a
banker

mail-coach driver

solicitor

barrister
3 What is the message that Mr. Lorry sends via the messenger from Tellson's Bank?
"turn around"

"continue as planned"

"recalled to life"

"abort mission"
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 has inherited a large sum of money

Her father is still alive

She is to be tried for treason

She is his daughter
6 How long was Doctor Manette imprisoned in the Bastille?
18 years

a day

25 years

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

blood

his name

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

Baptiste

Jann

Henri
9 What hobby did Dr. Manette pick up in prison?
blacksmithing

knitting

novel-writing

shoemaking
10 In what year does this novel begin?
1783

1793

1775

1767
11 What is Charles Darnay tried for in England?
murder

petty theft

treason

robbery
12 Why is Darnay acquitted?
he proves that he is not French

he has an alibi

he has a brilliant defense lawyer

he resembles Carton
13 Which gentleman does not want to marry Lucie?
Charles Darnay

Mr. Lorry

Mr. Stryver

Sydney Carton
14 Where do Darnay and Carton go together after the trial?
the Thames

a tavern

Paris

the Manettes' house
15 Where in London do the Manettes live?
Whitefriars

Soho

Kensington

Fleet Street
16 What does Miss Pross call Lucie Manette?
"a golden-haired doll"

"daughter"

"sweetheart"

"my Ladybird"
17 What is the most noticeable feature of the Manettes' house?
the sunniness of the front room

the resounding echoes from the street

its proximity to Temple Bar

the musty smell
18 How many books is the novel divided into?
two

five

three

seven
19 What does Lucie think the echoes in her house mean?
Soho is urbanizing very fast

people are coming to intrude in her family's life

she should shut her front door

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

"my man"

"the king"

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

he stops for a meal

he refuses to erect a gravestone for a woman's husband

he runs over a little boy
22 Monseigneur is
Dr. Manette's brother

Charles Darnay's uncle

Charles Darnay's father

Lucie's husband
23 Charles Darnay does not
sympathize with the peasants's plight

help tumble the Bastille

renounce his aristocratic title

get persecuted by the French lower class
24 Monseigneur is murdered by
Dr. Manette

Charles Darnay

someone who calls himself Jacques

Mr. Lorry
25 Charles Darnay's moonlighting profession is
street cleaner

lawyer

teacher

"resurrection-man"