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27) How did Dr. Manette react to his daughter leaving with Charles on their wedding day?
He once again became the shoemaker of Paris for over a week.
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23) What did Sydney Carton come to tell Lucie.
That he loved her, and that she had made him a better person but that he feared that she could never love him and that if she did, he would only drag her down with him.
24) How had Gaspard, the father of the child killed in the road, been executed for murdering the Marquis?
He had been hanged from a set of 40ft gallows and his body left dangling from the end of the rope.
25) What does Madame Defarge do as she sits knitting?
She is memorising the names of everyone who is to be executed in the revolution. She ‘knits them into her memory’.
26) Why does Monsieur Defarge hope that Charles Darnay, the Marquis’ nephew, never comes to France?
A spy had told him that Lucie is marrying Charles Darnay. Yet as a member of the Evremonde family, he is on the death list.
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5) Why did Dr. Manette say that his name was “One Hundred and Five, North Tower”?
Whilst Dr Manette was imprisoned in the Bastille, he had been identified by the address of his prison cell.
6) What job did Dr. Manette learn in Prison?
Dr Manette learned the trade of a Shoemaker.
7) What was Mr. Lorry’s relationship to Dr. Manette?
He was his friend and banker
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8) What crime was Charles Darnay accused of?
Darnay was accused of being a French Spy, and for collecting information about the British Army and Navy.
9) Why did nobody believe the evidence against Darnay given by Barsad or Cly?
Because their respective answers to the questions posed to each of them by Darnay’s lawyer, Mr Stryver, showed that Barsad was a liar and Cly was a thief. Barsad was a dishonest man who had been to prison many times as a debtor and owed money to Darnay. Cly had been to prison for theft.
10) Why did Luciette start to cry when giving evidence against Darnay?
Luciette started to cry when giving evidence against Darnay because he had been very kind to her father, and she hoped that her evidence would not do him any harm. Despite this, she feared that it would.
11) Who was Sydney Carton, and how did he help Darnay’s case?
Carton was Stryver’s assistant, and had previously prepared all of the clever questions which had been put to Cly and Barsad. He asked Stryver to point out that Darnay and Carton looked very similar. If it was hard to tell the difference between the two of them then, given the multitude of people in Portsmouth, how could the witness be certain of the identity of the person he had seen talking to the sailors.
12) Why do you think that Carton wanted to drink so much wine?
Because he wanted to be “out of this world” which was the only way he felt contentment. He appears to envy Darnay and long for Lucie.
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13) Why doesn’t Dr. Manette ever talk about his time in prison to his daughter, Lucie?
Dr. Manette didn’t want to talk about his time in prison because he wanted to forget it.
14) Why did Darnay say that the workmen he met decided to dig a hole in the floor of the cell in the tower of London?
The workmen decided to dig a hole in the floor of the cell because they read some writing on the walls of the cell, and saw that someone had written the word DIG.
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15) Why was the Marquis of Evremonde so angry when he left the King of France?
The King of France had refused to listen to him and he had been treated coldly.
16) Why did Defarge tell the father of the child who was hit by the carriage transporting the Marquis, that he should be grateful that the child was dead?
The death was quick and painless, and given the misery of their lives, it was probably better to be dead than alive.
17) Why did Defarge not take the gold coin thrown to him by the Marquis, but rather throw it back at him?
The Marquis was a cruel man, who seemed to take delight in the pain and misery he witnessed, and directly and indirectly helped to cause.
18) What did the road mender tell the Marquis that he had seen under his carriage?
A man clinging to a chain. He was covered in dust and looked like a ghost and jumped down when the carriage slowed down.
19) What had the Marquis asked the King of France for permission to do?
To have Charles Darnay, his nephew, locked up in the Bastille.
20) How did the Marquis die?
He was found with a dagger in his chest. Round the handle of the knife there was a piece of paper which read “Drive him fast to his grave. This, from Jacques.”
