Thursday, February 2, 2012

10 Questions: A Tale of Two Cities

 Questions
1) What are the "Two Cities" being referred to in the title?

2) What were England's problems?

3) What were France's problems?

4) What did the passengers do when the carriage couldn't take them up the hill?

5) What is the news about Lucie's father?

6) What does the wine cask falling foreshadow?

7) What is Tellson's Bank like?

8) What is Charles Darnay in trial for?

9) What does Jerry wonder as he sits alone?

10) How does Lucie's dad react when Lucie shows up?


Answers
1) England and France.

2) The public worries about many things including religious prophecies and the messages to King George III.

3) France is in a state of extreme violence which eventually causes the creation of the guillotine.

4) The passengers hiked up the hill alongside the carriage.

5) He is actually alive.

6) It foreshadows the start of the Revolution. It symbolizes blood spilling.

7) “very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious.”

8) He was accused of committing treason.

9) He wonders why his father always has rust on his fingers.

10) He mistakes her for his wife at first, then he realizes its daughter which brings him much shock and joy.

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