TOTC Final Exam Review

Question 1

“It is extraordinary to me that you people cannot take care of yourselves and your children. One or the other of you is forever in the way.”

Answer 1

Marquis

Question 2

“I am bound to a system that is frightful to me. Unwillingly I am responsible for it, while I seek in vain for help to right the wrongs of the wretched peasants who cry to us for mercy.”

Answer 2

Charles Darnay

Question 3

“Now, as to the future…would it not be better if these tools were put out of his way altogether? Are they not a constant reminder of the past?”

Answer 3

Mr. Lorry

Question 4

“You will be good to my poor husband? You will do him no harm? You will help me see him if you can.”

Answer 4

Lucie Manette

Question 5

“Ah! But it’s not my business. My work is my business. See my saw! I call it my little Guillotine.”

Answer 5

The Wood Sawyer

Question 6

“My family was that peasant family so injured by the two Evremonde brothers. Those dead are my dead, and that call to take vengeance for their wrong is a call to me.”

Answer 6

Madame Defarge

Question 7

“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.”

Answer 7

Sydney Carton

Question 8

“I am Briton. I am desperate. I don’t care for myself. I know the longer I keep you here, the greater hope there is for my Ladybird.”

Answer 8

Miss Pross

Question 9

Banker at Tellson’s Bank of London and a trusted friend of the Manettes

Answer 9

Mr. Lorry

Question 10

“odd jobman” for Tellson’s and part-time graverobber

Answer 10

Jerry Cruncher

Question 11

Wife of Charles Darnay

Answer 11

Lucie Manette

Question 12

Refers to Lucie as“LadyBird”

Answer 12

Miss Pross

Question 13

Unjustly imprisoned for 18 years in Paris

Answer 13

Doctor Manette

Question 14

Sentenced to death because the action of his father and uncle

Answer 14

Charles Darnay

Question 15

Cruel member of the French aristocracy

Answer 15

Marquis

Question 16

Drunken lawyer who takes Darnay’s place at the Guillotine

Answer 16

Sydney Carton

Question 17

London trial lawyer

Answer 17

Stryver

Question 18

Former servant of Dr. Manette and a leader of the French Revolution

Answer 18

Monsieur Defarge

Question 19

Records Crimes Against The People In Her Knitting

Answer 19

Madame Defarge

Question 20

A Secret Codename Employed To Identify Revolutionaries

Answer 20

Jacques

Question 21

A friend of Madame Defarge

Answer 21

The Vengeance

Question 22

Miss Pross long lost brother

Answer 22

Solomon

Question 23

English spy who testified against Charles Darnay

Answer 23

Roger Cly

Question 24

His imprisonment brings Darnay back to Paris

Answer 24

Gabelle

Question 25

Hanged in punishment for killing the Marquis

Answer 25

Gaspard

Question 26

Charles was “kind, and useful to my father”=good, Carton was “reckless, careless”=inconsiderate

Answer 26

characterization

Question 27

family, suffering, society and class, morals, life, rebirth

Answer 27

theme

Question 28

Lucie and how she held everything together

Answer 28

Symbolism | • “The Golden Thread”

Question 29

the rich aristocracy

Answer 29

Symbolism | • the gargoyles and stone statues at the Monseigneur's country estate

Question 30

death

Answer 30

Symbolism | • Madame Defarge’s knitting

Question 31

the place where the revolutionaries sharpened their weapons

Answer 31

Symbolism | • the grindstone

Question 32

blood spilt from the Guillotine

Answer 32

Symbolism | • the broken cask of wine

Question 33

“rebirth” of Doctor Manette parallels with the “rebirth” of Carton, (ing, ing, ing)

Answer 33

parallelism

Question 34

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

Answer 34

paradox

Question 35

“golden haired doll/thread”=yellow hair, keeps family together

Answer 35

imagery

Question 36

streets will spill like blood, blood is spilt after the deaths at the guillotine

Answer 36

foreshadowing

Question 37

La Guillotine is thirsty

Answer 37

personification

Question 38

repeating a phrase instead of a name ex.Calling Lucie the Golden Haired doll

Answer 38

epithet

Question 39

“He never thought of Carton.”

Answer 39

irony

Question 40

“I am the Resurrection and the Life…”

Answer 40

biblical allusion

Question 41

French Revolution

Answer 41

allusion

Question 42

restless sea of revolutionaries

Answer 42

extended metaphor

Question 43

Marquis illustrates French aristocracy

Answer 43

metaphor

Question 44

Monseigneur needs 4 people to feed him hot chocolate

Answer 44

hyperbole

Question 45

wine spilt=blood shed

Answer 45

sensory imagery

Question 46

crash of violence

Answer 46

onomatopoeia

Question 47

“like a distracted child”

Answer 47

simile

Question 48

“I asked leave to teach myself, and I got it with much difficulty after a long while, and I have made shoes ever since.”

Answer 48

Doctor Manette