DISCUSSION QUESTIONS CHAPTER BY CHAPTER

BOOK 1, CHAPTER 1 – THE PERIOD1. What was the attitude of British and French nobility concerning the future of their rule?2. In France, what was a common punishment for not kneeling to honor monks?3. What was the crime situation in England at this time?4. Why do you think Dickens keeps repeating the year?5. Dickens also gives us a hint right at the end of the chapter as to what his purpose is for

writing this novel. What do you think it might be?6. After this first chapter, what do you think the narration (voice) of this novel is?

VocabDeficientPotentateRetinueBlunderbussesChronicle

Literary DiscussionFind some examples of the following literary devices used by Dickens in chapter 1:ParadoxRepetitionMetaphorsSimilesPersonification

BOOK 1, CHAPTER 2 – THE MAIL1. How did passengers on the Dover mail interact with each other? Why did they act this

way?2. What was the guard’s initial reaction to the arrival of Jerry Cruncher?3. Who is Cruncher’s message for, and what is this gentleman’s occupation?4. What was Cruncher’s message, and what was the reply? What do you think these

messages mean?5. What literary element do you think is most important in this chapter (ie. character, plot,

setting, theme)? Why?6. What is the mood or tone in this chapter? How does Dickens evoke this mood?7. How does Dickens use suspense in this chapter?

VocabMutinousEnduedCapitulatedTremulousConfidentialGenialAdjurationCessationAudiblyExpeditiously

SecretedPretense

Literary DiscussionOne of Dickens’s techniques is to use inverted sentences. What are they? Find examples of inverted sentences.Find examples of the following:SimilePersonificationImagery

BOOK 1, CHAPTER 3 – THE NIGHT SHADOWS1. What is Cruncher’s reaction to the message he is to take to Tellson’s?2. What question does Mr. Lorry ask the spectre? What is the spectre’s answer? What do

you think this means?3. Dickens is a master at feeding his audience bits and pieces of information, revealing his

tale to us slowly and deliberately. The repetition of “Almost eighteen years” adds to the suspense of the story? What do you think it means? What hints does Dickens give us?

4. What now do you believe is the voice or narration of this story?5. How does the mood or atmosphere of the story change right at the end of chapter 3? How

does Dickens accomplish this?Vocab

UnfathomableInexorableConsolidationPerpetuationInscrutableEvincingPerplexedTediousEmaciated

BOOK 1, CHAPTER 4 – THE PREPARATION1. Describe Mr. Jarvis Lorry’s dress and physical appearance.2. Describe Tellson’s Bank or Tellson and Company.3. Where does this chapter take place? What country is it in? Describe Dover and its

physical relationship to France.4. Who is Mr. Lorry waiting for in Dover?5. Describe Miss Manette.6. Have Mr. Lorry and the young Lady met before? If so, when and under what

circumstances?7. What news does Mr. Lorry have for the young Lady? How does Jarvis Lorry tell her of

this news? Why does he have trouble, and what does he do to try to help himself with this predicament?

8. What is her reaction to the news?9. Why has Miss Manette been kept from the truth all these years?10. How is this news in itself yet another of Dickens’s paradoxes?

11. Why has this information been kept so secret, and what now do we understand the words “Recalled to life” to mean?

12. Who comes into the room to rescue Miss Manette? Describe this woman.13. What would you say is the most important literary element in this chapter?14. In what way is the title of this chapter relevant to the events of the chapter?

VocabObscuritySonorousPiscatoryStolidPerplexityAcquitPecuniarySupplicatoryDiscomposedDispersalRestorativesIndignantlyDisconcertedGradations

BOOK 1, CHAPTER 5 – THE WINE SHOP1. Where does this chapter take place?2. What are the people’s reactions to the broken wine cask?3. What does one person write on the wall using the spilled wine and how is the spilling of

the wine cask symbolic and also a foreshadowing?4. What analogy is used to describe the people of this town and of this place?5. What is the power that has ground the people down? What does this tell us about

conditions in France?6. What condition is personified so repeatedly when the narrator describes the conditions in

France?7. Dickens offers us several vivid descriptions in this chapter. One is the streets of France

and the other two are Monsieur Defarge and Madame Defarge. Recant these three descriptions.

8. Why do the men in the wine shop refer to each other as Jacques? (Look up the word “jacquerie” for a hint.)

9. Why have Mr. Lorry and Miss Manette come to Defarge’s wine shop? Why was Defarge chosen for this duty?

10. How does Defarge describe the person he is keeping on the fifth floor of his shop? Who do we find out is this person Defarge is keeping shut away? What precautions are taken and why does he take them?

11. Why do you think Defarge shows Dr. Manette to the Jacques?Vocab

SuspendedVestigeExpostulation

ImplacableFeignedTriumvirateDolefulLanguishingAspirationsIncumbentAdmonitory

BOOK 1, CHAPTER 6 – The SHOEMAKER1. What is Dr. Manette doing when they enter the room?2. Describe the Doctor’s physical appearance. What does this say about his prison

experience?3. Describe the first few moments when Miss Manette and her father see and experience

each other’s presence.4. What finally does Monsieur Manette do that shows he has recognized the young lady as

possibly his daughter?5. When the doctor compares the strands of golden hair in his “locket” to Lucie’s hair, what

is his first conclusion? Does he finally figure out the truth?6. As Lucy Manette loves her father back to life, what things does she say to him? What

information do we glean from her own dronings to her father?7. “One Hundred and Five North Tower.” What is it and how is it symbolic?8. “Beneath that arch of unmoved and eternal lights; some, so remote from this little earth

that the learned tell us it is doubtful whether their rays have even yet discovered it, as a point in space where anything is suffered or done: the shadows of the night were broad and black.” What is the narrator saying? What is ironic yet true about what he says?

VocabResonanceTransparentVagrancyObliteratedGaolerLethargyDisinclinedProvenderSagacityCoercionDiscerniblePostilion

BOOK 2, CHAPTER 1 – FIVE YEARS LATER1. Describe Tellson’s bank. What is the bank’s attitude toward change?2. How does Tellson’s treat the young men in its employ?3. As Hunger was personified in chapter five, what is personified in this chapter as the

“recipe” and solution for everything that goes wrong or for every problem? According to the narrator, was this solution effective?

4. What is Mr. Cruncher’s position at Tellson’s Bank?5. Describe Cruncher’s character, his speech, his relationship with his wife?6. What behavior of Mrs. Cruncher makes Mr. Cruncher angry? What is ironic about what

she is doing? Why does this anger him?7. Why does the narrator compare Mr. Cruncher and his son to a pair of monkeys?8. What physical characteristic of his father’s does young Jerry wonder about? Can you

make a guess about it?Vocab

IncommodiousEminenceObstinacyExtemporizedInsensatePurloinerGaitersProxyAppellationAnimosityEfficacyReversionaryCogitated

Literary Discussion1. Find the metaphor in the first paragraph.2. Find the personification in the fifth paragraph.3. Find the similes Jerry uses to describe himself when he complains about his wife praying

for him.4. Find an example of irony in the chapter.5. Find an example of literary dialect.6. Which literary element would you say is most important in this chapter and why?

BOOK 2, CHAPTER 2 – A SIGHT1. What is Mr. Cruncher supposed to do for his errand from Tellson’s Bank?2. What is the “Old Bailey” and for what is it famous?3. Old Bailey was compared to Bedlam. What can you deduce what Bedlam is, and what

was the comparison made?4. What was ironic about the closely guarded doors of Old Bailey?5. Who is being tried, and what is the charge against him?6. How does the courtroom react to the accused when he walks in? 7. Describe the accused. What are his physical characteristics? What can you conclude or

deduce about his character from what is told us about him?8. What happens to change the attention and focus of the courtroom? To whom is the focus

redirected? Who are they and what do you think is their purpose in the court?9. What amendment to the US constitution would you say the people in this courtroom are

missing?10. What is Jerry doing while he is in the courtroom? Do you have any speculations yet as to

why he has this problem?

VocabDebaucheryTraversingAphorismDemurProvisoConspicuousEngendered

BOOK 2, CHAPTER 3 – A DISAPPOINTMENT1. What is the Fifth Amendment? How might the Fifth Amendment have helped Charles

Darnay? What evidence must he give in which he incriminates himself? 2. The first witness against Darnay is Roger Cly. What evidence does he give that

incriminates Darnay?3. The second witness is Jarvis Lorry. What do you think Mr. Lorry’s opinion of Charles

Darnay is? Does the testimony he gives hurt or help Darnay?4. Miss Lucie Manette is the third witness called to testify. Where did Mr. Lorry, Miss

Manette, and Dr. Manette first meet Charles Darnay? What testimony must Lucie give that could both hurt and help Darnay?

5. What did the wigged gentleman who was looking at the ceiling point out on the piece of paper that he threw to the counsel, Mr. Stryver?

6. What does Mr. Stryver say about Mr. Basard and Mr. Cly?7. What happens in the courtroom to prove that Mr. Carton is much more observant than his

manner lets on?8. What personal service does Carton do for Charles Darnay? What do you think this action

hints at for the future? 9. What is the verdict? How does the phrase “Recalled to life” once again have

significance?10. What is your impression of Sydney Carton so far?

VocabFerretSublimeAuspiciousInfamyImmolateContagiousImmaculateUnimpeachableDisparagementDispositionPerniciousAsseverationInsinuationProcuredTimorousCounterfeit

BeguileAntipathiesInterposedDemeanour (demeanor)CommiserationInsolentCordialVehemence

Literary Discussion1. There is an allusion to some American historical figure in this chapter. Who is it and how

is it significant? In regards to this allusion, how might the phrase, “One man’s hero is another man’s traitor,” be significant?

2. We have discussed the narration a couple of times already. What indications are given in the chapter as to who the narrator is?

3. Since the opening lines of the book, Dickens has made use of opposites and paradoxes. He does this again at the end of this chapter when referring to Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton. What are the opposites – the similarities and the differences between the two?

4. What metaphor does the narrator use several times for the people in the courtroom, and what might be the significance of this metaphor?

BOOK 2, CHAPTER 4 - CONGRATULATORY1. What is the scene at the beginning of this chapter? Who is present, where are they, and

what has just happened?2. How is Dr. Manette since we met him in book one? How has he changed? What

problems does he still have?3. As the group leaves, who approaches? What is it he wants from Charles Darnay?4. We get a closer understanding of Sydney Carton in this chapter. In what ways does your

opinion of him change in this chapter? How does Darnay feel about him? How do you feel about Carton?

5. What is it that Sydney Carton secretly wishes for himself? What do you think Carton’s and Darnay’s toast foreshadows?

6. What is Sydney Carton’s opinion of himself? What is his opinion of Darnay? Why do you think Sydney Carton has these feelings about Charles Darnay? Describe the final scene in the chapter. What might this last scene foreshadow?

VocabCadenceAbstractionImpedimentsTerrestrialRuingLaconicRejoinderOfficesDisconcertedDefiance

ConfoundConsolation

Literary Discussion1. “She was the golden thread that united him to a Past beyond his misery, and to a Present

beyond his misery; and the sound of her voice, the light of her face, the touch of her hand, had a strong beneficial influence with him almost always.” Who is the “she”? Who is the “him”? Why are Past and Present capitalized? What is the metaphor here? What kind of imagery is here?

2. Research the word “office.” How many definitions are there? Which ONE definition seems most appropriate to its use in this chapter?

3. What is a soliloquy? Where and how is one used in this chapter? What is the purpose of this soliloquy?

4. What is foreshadowing? What is ironic about this term? What possible lines in the soliloquy at the end of this chapter might contain foreshadowing?

BOOK 2, CHAPTER 5 – THE JACKAL1. What is a jackal? Who is described as the jackal in this chapter? Why?2. How does the narrator describe these times in London?3. What do we learn about Mr. Stryver? What kind of man is he? What comparisons are

made?4. What is Sydney Carton’s job? How do he and Stryver get along? Who do you think is the

real brains behind this team of attorneys?5. Describe his working routine. Include when, where, and how.6. What do Carton and Stryver discuss? What do you think are the reasons for Sydney

Carton’s failure in life?7. After reading this chapter, describe Sydney Carton’s life and tell how you think he feels

about it.8. The titles given to each man, the lion and the jackal, are significant only in perception,

not necessarily in truth. What makes a person either a lion or a jackal in life?Vocab

DetrimentBacchanalian propensitiesLucrativeFloridCountenanceGlibUnscrupulousPith and marrowDissipatedJackalDexterouslyPrecociousEccentricitiesLudicrousInvigoratedDeprecatory

DespondencyApostrophize

Literary DiscussionRead the last three paragraphs of this chapter again. What literary devices do you find? Find personification, metaphor, imagery, symbolism. What is particularly sad about Sydney Carton?

BOOK 2, CHAPTER 6 – HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE1. Where does Mr. Lorry go most Sundays? Why? Describe Dr. and Lucy Manette’s

place.2. Describe Miss Pross as she appears on the surface. How might her real personality

and character be somewhat different than what we see on the surface?3. What is the one thing that seems to bother Miss Pross the most and how does this tie

into the title of this chapter?4. How does Miss Pross describe the Doctor’s mental condition? What does it take to

soothe him?5. Describe the story of the letter that Charles Darnay relates to Lucie and her father.

How might it be a foreshadowing?6. Who are the “hundreds of people” that visit the Manette’s on Sundays? What might

this foreshadow?VocabRoiledCongenialInnatelyPropositionAffidavitImputationSomberMercenaryRetributiveCompunctionPlacidityContrivancesVivacityIncessantStipulationsLiterary Discussion

BOOK 2, CHAPTER 7 – MONSEIGNEUR IN TOWN1. What kinds of people associate themselves with the Monseigneur? What does this say

about what it takes to get ahead in France at this time?2. Describe the “accident” that befalls the Monsieur the Marquis in the streets of Paris.3. What is the Marquis’s attitude toward this “accident”?

VocabEmulativeLacquey

EscutcheonDestituteEcclesiastesTransmutationCatalepticAscertainedTalismanExterminateCowedLiterary Discussion

BOOK 2, CHAPTER 8 - MONSEIGNEUR IN THE COUNTRY1. What are the conditions in the Marquis’s home village?2. What unusual sight did the roadmender see? What prediction can you make from this?3. Who is the Marquis expecting? Can you guess the identity of this person?

VocabPropitiateFelicitouslyObsequiousnessMaladyLiterary Discussion

BOOK 2, CHAPTER 9 – THE GORGON’S HEADOf what does Darnay accuse his uncle?What is the Marquis’s philosophy of keeping the common people under control?What is Darnay’s opinion of his family’s behavior and what does he plan to do about it?What happens to the Marquis, and what does the note tell us?VocabGorgonRemonstranceFlambeauDiversifiedImperturbableImportunityDeferenceComportableDiabolicLiterary Discussion

BOOK 2, CHAPTER 10 – TWO PROMISES1. A year after his uncle’s death, describe Charles Darnay’s professional and personal

condition.2. In proclaiming his love for Lucie, how does Charles show consideration for Dr. Manette?3. What are the two promises that the Doctor makes Charles?4. What is the effect on the Doctor of making these promises? Why do you think they had

this effect on him?

VocabAttainmentsProsperityAssassinationAggravatedFerventManifestHallowedApprehensionsLiterary Discussion

BOOK 2, CHAPTER 11 – A COMPANION PICTURE1. What future plan does Stryver confess to Carton?2. What does Stryver’s attitude about himself and about Lucie Manette reveal? What

assumptions does Stryver make that seem a little premature?3. What physical descriptions does the narrator keep repeating about Stryver?4. What does Stryver advise Carton to do?

VocabMorosenessIncorrigibleOstentatiousMercenaryPatronage

BOOK 2, CHAPTER 12 – THE FELLOW OF DELICACY1. What conversation does Stryver have with himself? With what does he compare his

argument for proposing to Lucie?2. Why does Stryver stop in to tell Mr. Lorry of his plans?3. What is Mr. Lorry’s reaction to Stryver’s news? What is Stryver’s reaction to Mr. Lorry’s

advice?4. What does Mr. Lorry offer to do for Stryver?5. What is Stryver’s attitude when Lorry comes to the house with information, and why

does he act this way? What does Stryver’s reaction at the end of the chapter tell you about him?

VocabSelf-abnegatingDubiouslyContentiousCrest-fallenVexedVenerableEmissaryLiterary DiscussionWhich literary element do you believe to be the most important in chapters 11 and 12? Why?Chapters 11 and 12 reveal a lot about the character of Mr. Stryver. In what ways is his character revealed to us? Which is most enlightening do you think?

BOOK 2, CHAPTER 13 – THE FELLOW OF NO DELICACYIn his talk with Lucie, what is Carton’s opinion of himself?How does Lucie’s opinion of Carton change throughout this chapter?What does Carton say he would do if Lucie should love him?What memory does Carton want to take with him?Why might Carton want to share his feelings for Lucie even though he knows his love for her is unrequited?What promise does Carton make Lucie? Where do you think this promise will lead him?Does your opinion of Sydney Carton change in this chapter? What makes him a sympathetic character? What VocabLiterary Discussion

BOOK 2, CHAPTER 14 – THE HONEST TRADESMAN1. Chapter 14 has some comic scenes especially surrounding Jerry Cruncher and his family.

Whose funeral procession does the crowd attack? Why do they attack it?2. What is Jerry Cruncher’s reaction to the mob violence?3. Describe Mr. Cruncher’s “fishing tackle.” What kind of “fish” do you think he is going

for with this type of “tackle”?4. What name does young Jerry give to his father’s “trade,” and what is Mr. Cruncher’s

response when young Jerry says he wants to be in that trade when he grows up? VocabPilotageAcclamationEfficacyImmersionRefractoryApostrophizingCorroborationsHomageAdjuredInjunctionsImpelledOstensibleLiterary Discussion

1. Dickens uses repetition repeatedly in the novel. Find an example of things that are repeated in this chapter.

2. Note the juxtapositions described by the narrator in the funeral procession at the beginning of the chapter. What purpose do these juxtapositions serve and why do you think Dickens uses them?

3. Find some examples of the following literary devices in this chapter: symbolism, hyperbole, humor, sarcasm, analogy.

4. Do you see an irony in “resurrection man” and “recalled to life”? Do you see irony in the title of this chapter?

BOOK 2, CHAPTER 15 - KNITTING

1. Most of this chapter is the recalling of a story by one of the Jacques. What story is he recalling and to whom is he telling it? What humor does Dickens add to this narrative?

2. What was the fate of the Marquis’s killer, and who reported that fate to Defarge?3. What is the sentence (judgment) that Defarge and his compatriots give after hearing the

fate of the Marquis’s killer? What are the future implications of this sentence?4. How are these sentences recorded so that they will be kept secret until the appropriate

time?5. Why does Defarge compliment his guest for cheering the king and queen?

VocabVivaciousPrevalentVinousMender of roadsSwarthyIndispensableStealthParricideRapturousPoltroonDisconcertingShroudsUbiquitousSuperciliouslyLiterary Discussion

1. Discuss the symbolism of Madame DeFarge’s knitting and especially the knitting of shrouds.

2. Research the idea of knitting and why Dickens might have chosen this preoccupation for Madame DeFarge.

BOOK 2, CHAPTER 16 – STILL KNITTING1. What information does Defarge get from Jacques on the police force? Where have you

heard of this man before?2. Why is Defarge depressed, and how does Madame Defarge comfort him?3. What is the significance of Madame Defarge pinning a rose in her hair?4. What does the spy learn from the Defarges, and what do they learn from him? Describe

Madame Defarge’s attitude toward the spy. 5. What information does the spy give the Defarges that disturbs them, or at least Ernest

Defarge? VocabAmicablyOffalSinisterComplacentlyCatechistAssiduouslyInfraction

PromenadingCoquetryDeftlyLiterary Discussion

1. Personification is used right at the beginning of chapter 16. What is being personified and how?

2. Juxtaposition is again evident, also at the beginning of this chapter. Chateau and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well – to what is each of these referring?

3. The paradoxes that Dickens so deftly uses also come into play again. “So does a whole world, with all its greatness and littleness, lie in a twinkling star.” What point is Dickens trying to make here?

4. Describe the significance and symbolism of the analogy of the flies.5. What kind of literary device is “…with a stern kind of coquetry…”? (research the

meanings of the words)6. Dickens makes use of two analogies when the Defarges are discussing the impending

revolution and its timing. What two natural events does Madame Defarge use to analogize the impending revolution?

7. What is symbolic about the title of this chapter? Madame Defarge’s “still knitting” also represents what in this chapter?

BOOK 2, CHAPTER 17 – ONE NIGHT1. This chapter has only one scene. Where is it, and what is it?2. What are the Doctor’s feelings about Lucie’s impending marriage?3. What things does Dr. Manette share with his daughter that he has previously not shared?

How might this be a blessing and a curse?VocabConsecratedFelicityAnatomiseApocryphalAssailantLiterary Discussion

1. What is the tone of this chapter and how does Dickens effect this tone?2. “The bitter waters of captivity” is what kind of literary device? To what and whom is it

referring?

BOOK 2, CHAPTER 18 – NINE DAYS1. To what is the title of this chapter “Nine Days” referring?2. What does Charles Darnay tell the Doctor on the morning of his marriage to Lucie?3. What is the Doctor’s response to the combination of this information and the giving of

his daughter in marriage?4. What two things does Mr. Lorry do in reaction to the Doctor’s condition?

VocabRevulsionSubmissive

InduceDelusionLiterary Discussion

1. What is the tone at the beginning of this chapter and how does it change?2. “The words fell on him as they would have fallen on an echoless wall or on the air” is an

example of what kind of literary device? What is the situation in which it is used and to what is it referring?

BOOK 2, CHAPTER 19 – AN OPINION1. How does Mr. Lorry go about approaching the Doctor about his condition for the nine

days without upsetting him?2. What is the Doctor’s opinion about the future of Mr. Lorry’s “hypothetical” man?3. What does the Doctor say is the one thing that could bring on another relapse? What does

he mean by this?4. What recommendation does Mr. Lorry make to the Doctor, and how does he talk him into

following it?VocabMaladyArdourAbateLiterary Discussion

1. Internal conflict is a crucial part of almost any novel. Two characters have great inner conflict in this chapter. Who are they and what is their conflict?

2. Metonymy is a figure of speech which substitutes one term with another that is being associated with the that term. A name transfer takes place to demonstrate an association of a whole to a part or how two things are associated in some way. The term “forge” is a metonymy in this chapter. For what word or idea is forge being substituted?

BOOK 2, CHAPTER 20What request does Carton make of Charles?What does Lucie request of Charles?

BOOK 2, CHAPTER 21What is the significance of the “echoing footsteps”?What sad thing befell Charles and Lucie during this time period?What has happened to Carton and Stryver over the years?What happened in Paris on July 14, 1789?Where did Defarge demand to be taken first? Why?How does Madame Defarge show her merciless strength?

BOOK 2, CHAPTER 22Who is Madame Defarge’s lieutenant in leading the women, and what does this “nickname” imply about her?Who was Old Foulon and what was his fate?What has begun?

BOOK 2, CHAPTER 23What is the symbol of the revolutionaries?What happens at the Marquis’s villa? What is this an example of?

BOOK 2, CHAPTER 24In the year 1792, where was the headquarters for the “Monseigneur” in Paris?Why is Mr. Lorry going to France? What is his mission?What is Gabelle’s urgent plea?What is Charles’s decision? Why does he decide on this course of action? What does this say about his character?BOOK 3, CHAPTER 1111.What type of reception does Charles receive in France?112.What is the “emigrant decree,” and how does it affect Charles?113.What is Defarge’s reaction to Charles’s plea for help, and why does he act this way?A Teacher’s Guide to the Signet Classic Edition of Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities 12114.Who is this La Guillotine who has become the new darling of France?115.What about Charles’s detention makes it worse than general imprisonment? Why do you think this is worse?BOOK 3, CHAPTER 2116.What horrible thing is located in the courtyard of Tellson’s in Paris? What makes it horrible?117.Who are Mr. Lorry’s surprise guests, and what news do they bring him?118.Why does the Doctor say he leads a “charmed life” in Paris?119.What is the mob’s reaction to the Doctor’s plea for help?BOOK 3, CHAPTER 3120.Who is the messenger that comes to Mr. Lorry, and what is his message?121.Why does Madame Defarge say she visits Lucie, and what is her true reason?122.What does Lucie ask of Madame Defarge, and how does she respond?BOOK 3, CHAPTER 4123.What conditions does the Doctor find in the prison?124.What has the eighteen years he spent in prison done for the Doctor?125.What position did the Doctor achieve because of his status, and how does this position help Charles?126.What is the new legal order in France at this time?BOOK 3, CHAPTER 5127.How does Lucie respond to living fifteen months in constant fear that every day might be Charles’s last? What does thissay about her?128.What small scrap of good news does the Doctor bring Lucie?129.Who is the wood-sawyer, and what is his attitude toward those in prison?130.What is the Carmagnole, and why does Lucie think it is terrible?BOOK 3, CHAPTER 6131.Who orchestrates Charles’s acquittal, and is his defense built on fact or emotion?132.What is the mob’s reaction to Charles’s acquittal, and why is this surprising?BOOK 3, CHAPTER 7133.Why do Charles and his family stay in France, and what is their style of living there?

134.What happens to Charles during his first night of freedom?BOOK 3, CHAPTER 8135.Who do Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher run into while shopping?136.Who does Carton know this man as?A Teacher’s Guide to the Signet Classic Edition of Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities 13137.How does Carton get this man to help him?138.What startling information does Mr. Cruncher have concerning the death of Roger Cly, and how does this informationhelp Carton?BOOK 3, CHAPTER 9139.What is Barsard going to do for Carton? What do you think Carton’s plan is?140.What memory gives Carton comfort as he wanders the Paris streets, and what does it tell us of why he turned out the wayhe did?141.Who are Charles’s accusers? Why is one of them particularly surprising?142.What is the form of Dr. Manette’s accusation?BOOK 3, CHAPTER 10143.Who are the twin brothers who need the Doctor’s services?144.Who is the sick woman, and what is wrong with her?145.What does this say about the brothers’ character?146.What was the boy’s last act, and how has it turned out?147.What was the Marquis St. Evermonde’s wife’s request of the Doctor? Whose mother was she?148.Who had the Doctor put in prison and why?149.What was the last thing the Doctor wrote in his account, and what effect does its reading have?BOOK 3, CHAPTER 11150.Why didn’t Lucie collapse when Charles was condemned, and what does this say about her?151.Why did Carton encourage Dr. Manette to continue his efforts to free Charles? What does this say about Carton?BOOK 3, CHAPTER 12152.Why did Carton go to Defarge’s wine shop?153.What are Madame Defarge and Defarge arguing over?154.Why is Madame Defarge so merciless towards Charles and his family?155.What is the Doctor’s condition when he returns, and what is its cause?156.What papers does Carton give Mr. Lorry to hold?157.Why does Carton instruct Lorry to be prepared to leave the next day? What do you think is Carton’s plan?BOOK 3, CHAPTER 13158.What does Charles write in his “last” letter?159.How does Carton get Charles to go along with his plan?160.How does Carton get Charles out of prison?161.How is Carton going to keep the promise he made to Lucie years before?A Teacher’s Guide to the Signet Classic Edition of Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities 14BOOK 3, CHAPTER 14162.What is Madame Defarge’s plan and what does Defarge think of it?

163.What plan are Miss Pross and Mr. Cruncher following and why?164.What happens between Miss Pross and Madame Defarge?BOOK 3, CHAPTER 15165.At the execution, what do they say about Carton?166.What does Carton foretell for Charles and Lucie, and how does their future bring honor to his name?