1. In the interaction between Mr. Stryver and Sydney Carton in Chapter 5, how are their roles metaphorically described?
2. What specific physical object was wet with tears when Sydney Carton fell asleep?
3. How does Sydney Carton describe Lucie Manette to Mr. Stryver?
4. Where is the Manette household located?
5. In Chapter 6, Darnay relates a story about a prisoner in the Tower of London who wrote which word on the wall?
6. What was found beneath the floor of the cell in Darnay's story?
7. Lucie shares a "fancy" regarding the sound of echoing footsteps. What does she believe they represent?
8. The reception in Chapter 7 takes place at the suite of which personage?
9. Why does the Marquis St. Evrémonde leave the reception angrily?
10. What tragic event occurs as the Marquis’s carriage speeds through the streets?
11. Who is the father of the child killed by the carriage?
12. What did the road-mender claim to see?
13. The relationship between the Monseigneur and his sister reveals that:
14. Lucie’s governess is:
15. Gaspard approaches the carriage as:
16. The widow at the graveyard begs for:
17. Collectively, Chapters 7 and 8 of Book the Second foreshadow:
18. Who tells the story of the prisoner who wrote “dig” on the wall?
19. Dickens uses which animal metaphor to describe Carton’s role?
20. How much time has passed between the trial (Chapter 3) and the events in Chapter 6?