A Tale of Two Cities

The Paris mob kills Foulon because he suggested that starving people should ___________.

Eat grass

As the accusations come to fruition it becomes clear that Madame Defarge's overzealous hatred of Darnay can end only in death _________.

Either his or hers

After Darnay's acquittal, Sydney Carton claims to dislike him, as he is reminded of how ____________ and everything he might have been.

Far he has fallen

The story occurs within the time of the ______________.

French Revolution

During the central court trial, Defarge reads aloud a letter that he has discovered, which Manette wrote during his imprisonment in the Bastille and which __________ as a member of the cruel aristocratic lineage of Evrémonde.

Indicts Darnay

___________ frequently go out to do at night to dig up bodies in the cemetery.

Jerry Cruncher

___________ informs the Defarges that Lucie Manette has married Charles Darnay.

John Barsad

You have been the _________ of my soul.

Last dream

Doctor Manette keep a _____________during his imprisonment in order to escape "in spirit."

Lock of his wife's hair

A Tale of Two Cities published in 1859 is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in ____________ before and during the French Revolution.

London and Paris

The famous opening lines, which open A Tale of Two Cities, hint at the novel's central tension between _________, on the one hand, and _________, on the other.

Love and family / Oppression and hatred

The Marquis orders his carriage to be raced through the city streets, delighting to see the commoners nearly run down by his horses. When the carriage jolts to a stop. A child lies dead under its wheels. The Marquis tosses ___________ to the boy's father, a man named Gaspard, and to the wine shop owner Defarge, who tries to comfort Gaspard.

A few coins

What image does Dickens frequently use to describe Lucie Manette?

A golden thread

___________ develops a habit of watching and speaking to Lucie as she waits on a Paris street corner each day, hoping that Darnay will be able to see her from his prison window.

A wood-sawyer

The Gorgon's head symbolizes his ____________ toward the suffering of the poor.

Absolute coldness

A major theme follows Madame Defarge as she seeks revenge against Darnay for his relation to the odious Marquis Evrémonde; Carton, Manette, Lucie, and Jarvis Lorry strive to protect Darnay from the _____________________.

Bloodthirsty revolutionaries' guillotine

A _____________ is the symbol Dickens uses to portend the bloodshed of the French Revolution.

Broken wine cask

In any of the burial-places of this city through which I pass, is there a sleeper more inscrutable than its ________________ are, in their innermost personality, to me, or than I am to them?

Busy inhabitants

Doctor Manette was imprisoned due to the Marquis Evrémonde fearing that he would reveal one of the Marquis' ___________.

Dark secrets

During the storming of the Bastille, Madame Defarge ___________ the fortress's guard.

Decapitates

Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their _____________, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

Directed exercise

On the night after Lucie and Charles are married, Doctor Manette reverts to his prison pastime of _________.

Making shoes

‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden ____________, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

Mastery you kindled me

It seems clear that this is a rare case where death or destruction (the opposite of resurrection) has a positive connotation since the "burning" helps liberate the doctor from the ___________ of his long imprisonment.

Memory

The spy John Barsad is revealed to be ___________ Brother, Solomon.

Miss Pross'

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, _____________!

O' Guillotine

The ever-present possibility of a type of resurrection; through the sacrifice of __________ is a primary theme throughout the story.

Oneself for others

For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. If my career were of that better kind that there was any _________________ in it, I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you.

Opportunity or capacity of sacrifice

Death may beget life, but _____________ can beget nothing other than itself.

Oppression

A fascinating point is that many times the oppressed rise against the oppressor; only to become worse than those who __________ them.

Plagued

the Marquis is a symbol of ________.

Pure evil

Carton's self-sacrifice at the end of the novel finally reveals his love and devotion for Lucie which has ____________ until he commits to dying for her.

Remained obscure

Vengeance and retribution ____________; it is the rule.

Require a long time

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better __________ than I have ever known.

Rest that I go to

_____________ is a major theme in the novel. In Jarvis Lorry's thoughts of Dr. Manette, resurrection is first spotted as a theme. It is also the last theme seen in Carton's sacrifice

Resurrection

A glimpse into humanities tendency toward violence and oppression is shown in both sides of people within the story; as well as how quickly the roles can ____________.

Reverse

Throughout the story there is a ____________ as the ongoing murder of aristocrats grows out of control after the storming of the Bastille

Rising bloodlust

After Darnay's death by guillotine is called for; Carton makes the decision to __________ while posing as Darnay.

Sacrifice his life

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a ____________, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. 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.

Sanctuary in their hearts

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound __________ to every other.

Secret and mystery

A multitude of people and yet a _____________.

Solitude

Miss Pross believes her brother, ___________ is the ideal suitor for Lucie Manette.

Solomon

There is prodigious __________ in sorrow and despair.

Strength

The time will come, the time will not be long in coming, when new ties will be formed about you--ties that will bind you yet more ____________ to the home you so adorn--the dearest ties that will ever grace and gladden you.

Tenderly and strongly

The demolition of Dr. Manette's shoe-making workbench by Miss Pross and Mr. Lorry is described as "________________".

The burning of the body

Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will _____________. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.

Twist itself into the same tortured forms

Madame Defarge's knitting symbolizes the __________ of the common people.

Vengefulness

Sydney Carton is in a sense reborn into glory in his final act; after a virtually ___________.

Wasted life

A day wasted on others is not _____________.

Wasted on one's self

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the ______________.

Winter of despair