WorksheetsA Tale of Two Cities Ch.1
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
A Tale of Two Cities is a novel that takes place in Europe, the two cities are meant to be
Egypt & Syria
London & Paris
Belgium & Russia
The time setting of the novel takes place between
1990-2000
1775-1793
1800-1881
Who are meant by "king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face"
Louis 16th & Marie Antoinette
Henry 8th & Cathrine
George 3rd & Sophie
"king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face" Which country do they rule?
Egypt
France
England
What does it mean "A King with large Jaw and a queen with plain face"
A king with harsh authoritative rule & a not so beautiful queen.
A King with fat face and a queen without makeup
A king with toothache and a blunt queen
What's the meaning of "king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face"
A king with harsh authoritative rule and a beautiful extravagant queen
A king with a fat face and a botox queen
A king with toothache and a just queen
France was divided into 3 estates or Classes
King & Queen, Aristocrats(nobles & clergy), Peasants( woodmen & Farmers)
President, upper class , middle class, lower class
King & Queen, Aristocrats, middle class, peasants
England was divided into 3 classes
King & Queen, Aristocrats(nobles & clergy), Peasants( woodmen & Farmers)
President, upper class , middle class, lower class
King & Queen, Aristocrats, middle class, peasants
What is meant by "a certain movable machine with a giant knife that would be terrible in history."
The bastille
lettre de cachet
la guillotine
“In the woods of France, trees were growing when that youth was put to death, already marked by Fate to be cut down and made into boards for
a certain movable machine with a giant knife that would be terrible in history.” Dickens uses a signature technique which is called
foreshadowing
coincidence & irony
minute character discription
Dickens uses symbols as Fate & Death to show that these events were in fact ................
coincidental & unexpected
unavoidable & inevitable
recurrent & ordinary
What is meant by "there were rough carts covered with mud, snuffed about by farm animals and roosted in by hens and chickens, which Death had already set apart"
mail coach
tumbrils of the revolution
the guillotine
England had strong & iron fist order and protection to justify any national pride.
True
False
not mentioned
France had a lenient flexible & weak rule which enabled robbers to rob the city in daylight.
True
False
not mentioned
They can sentence a young man to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers and his body burned alive. is an example of
France's tyrannical iron fist rule
England lenient law & order
France's just & fair authoritative rule
Thieves cut diamond jewels from round the necks of people at court is an example of
France's tyrannical iron fist rule
England's lenient law & order
France's just & fair authoritative rule
Thieves cut diamond jewels from round the necks of people at court and nobody thought any of these things out of the ordinary.
Dickens criticizes
the corruption & indifference of English society
tyranny & violence of the French aristocrats
blind vengeance & passion of the French revolutionaries
France managed to “roll smoothly down hill” “making
paper money and spending it.” means that
they were living in prosperity & wealth
they were living off debt
they were living in poverty & need
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness," Dickens uses paradox to show
the duality & extremes of the time
the revenge of the peasants
the violence of the aristocrats
Dickens aims at criticizing England and France showing the similarities & differences between the two countries at the time.
True
False
