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A Tale of Two Cities Ch.1

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

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Class
Date
1.

A Tale of Two Cities is a novel that takes place in Europe, the two cities are meant to be

a)

Egypt & Syria

b)

London & Paris

c)

Belgium & Russia

2.

The time setting of the novel takes place between

a)

1990-2000

b)

1775-1793

c)

1800-1881

3.

Who are meant by "king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face"

a)

Louis 16th & Marie Antoinette

b)

Henry 8th & Cathrine

c)

George 3rd & Sophie

4.

"king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face" Which country do they rule?

a)

Egypt

b)

France

c)

England

5.

What does it mean "A King with large Jaw and a queen with plain face"

a)

A king with harsh authoritative rule & a not so beautiful queen.

b)

A King with fat face and a queen without makeup

c)

A king with toothache and a blunt queen

6.

What's the meaning of "king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face"

a)

A king with harsh authoritative rule and a beautiful extravagant queen

b)

A king with a fat face and a botox queen

c)

A king with toothache and a just queen

7.

France was divided into 3 estates or Classes

a)

King & Queen, Aristocrats(nobles & clergy), Peasants( woodmen & Farmers)

b)

President, upper class , middle class, lower class

c)

King & Queen, Aristocrats, middle class, peasants

8.

England was divided into 3 classes

a)

King & Queen, Aristocrats(nobles & clergy), Peasants( woodmen & Farmers)

b)

President, upper class , middle class, lower class

c)

King & Queen, Aristocrats, middle class, peasants

9.

What is meant by "a certain movable machine with a giant knife that would be terrible in history."

a)

The bastille

b)

lettre de cachet

c)

la guillotine

10.

“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

a)

foreshadowing

b)

coincidence & irony

c)

minute character discription

11.

Dickens uses symbols as Fate & Death to show that these events were in fact ................

a)

coincidental & unexpected

b)

unavoidable & inevitable

c)

recurrent & ordinary

12.

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"

a)

mail coach

b)

tumbrils of the revolution

c)

the guillotine

13.

England had strong & iron fist order and protection to justify any national pride.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

not mentioned

14.

France had a lenient flexible & weak rule which enabled robbers to rob the city in daylight.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

not mentioned

15.

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

a)

France's tyrannical iron fist rule

b)

England lenient law & order

c)

France's just & fair authoritative rule

16.

Thieves cut diamond jewels from round the necks of people at court is an example of

a)

France's tyrannical iron fist rule

b)

England's lenient law & order

c)

France's just & fair authoritative rule

17.

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

a)

the corruption & indifference of English society

b)

tyranny & violence of the French aristocrats

c)

blind vengeance & passion of the French revolutionaries

18.

France managed to “roll smoothly down hill” “making

paper money and spending it.” means that

a)

they were living in prosperity & wealth

b)

they were living off debt

c)

they were living in poverty & need

19.

"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

a)

the duality & extremes of the time

b)

the revenge of the peasants

c)

the violence of the aristocrats

20.

Dickens aims at criticizing England and France showing the similarities & differences between the two countries at the time.

a)

True

b)

False