Characters

Question 1

Name the character: A doctor from Beauvais, France, who was secretly imprisoned in the Bastille for 18 years and suffers some mental trauma from the experience. After being released, he is nursed back to health by his daughter, Lucie, in England. During the Revolution, he tries to save his son-in-law, Charles Darnay, from the guillotine.

Answer 1

Doctor Alexander Manette

Question 2

Name the character: A beautiful young woman recognized for her kindness and compassion. After being reunited with her father, she cares for him and remains devoted to him, even after her marriage to Charles Darnay.

Answer 2

Lucie Manette

Question 3

Name the character: A French aristocrat. He renounces his family name of St. Evrémonde and moves to England, where he works as a tutor and eventually marries Lucie Manette. He is put on trial during the Revolution for the crimes of his family.

Answer 3

Charles Darnay

Question 4

Name that character: A lawyer who looks like Charles Darnay and who lives in a fog of apathy and alcohol. His love for Lucie Manette motivates him to sacrifice his life to save the life of her husband.

Answer 4

Sydney Carton

Question 5

Name the character: An English banker. A loyal friend to the Manette family, he gets the family out of Paris after the Doctor’s release from prison and during the Revolution.

Answer 5

Mr. Jarvis Lorry

Question 6

Name the character: The owner of a wine shop in a Paris suburb. He is a leader of the Jacquerie (a roving band of peasants) during the French Revolution.

Answer 6

Ernest Defarge

Question 7

Name the character: A hard, vengeful woman. She knits a registry with the names of aristocrats she condemns and later leads the female revolutionaries in killing and exacting revenge on her enemies.

Answer 7

Madame Defarge

Question 8

Name the character: A forceful Englishwoman who was Lucie Manette’s nursemaid. She remains Lucie’s devoted servant and protector. Sister of Barsad.

Answer 8

Mrs. Pross

Question 9

Name the character: A messenger for Tellson’s Bank and Jarvis Lorry’s bodyguard. He is also secretly a graverobber.

Answer 9

Jerry Cruncher

Question 10

Name the character: A pious woman, she is frequently beaten by her husband for praying.

Answer 10

Mrs. Jerry Cruncher

Question 11

Name the character: Jerry’s son, who resembles his father in appearance and temperament. He assists Jerry at Tellson’s.

Answer 11

Young Jerry Cruncher(Jerry Crunchers son)

Question 12

Name the character: A boorish lawyer who employs Sydney Carton. He is Darnay’s defense attorney in England and aspires briefly to marry Lucie.

Answer 12

C.J. Stryver

Question 13

Name the character: A police spy in England who faked his own funeral. He appears later as a prison spy in revolutionary France.

Answer 13

Roger Cly

Question 14

Name the character: A police spy in England who becomes a spy in revolutionary France. Recognized as Miss Pross’ brother, he is forced to help Carton save Darnay.

Answer 14

John Barsad or Soloman Pross

Question 15

Name the character: A greedy, self-absorbed French aristocrat. He personifies all that is wrong with the upper classes in pre-Revolutionary France.

Answer 15

Monseigneur the Marquis

Question 16

Name the character: An immoral, cruel man, he runs down a child with his carriage and is later murdered by the child’s father.

Answer 16

Marquis St. Evrémonde/Darnay’s uncle

Question 17

Name the character: the revolutionaries who organize and implement the French Revolution. The name comes from the nickname for peasants.

Answer 17

Jacques One, Two, Three, and Four Members of the Jacquerie

Question 18

Name the character: An agent for the St. Evrémonde family. The revolutionaries imprison this man during the Revolution for handling some business affairs for Darnay. His letter begging for help sends Darnay back to France.

Answer 18

Théophile Gabelle

Question 19

Name the character: A peasant. This man murders the Marquis St. Evrémonde for running down and killing his child.

Answer 19

Gaspard

Question 20

Name the character: A peasant. This man becomes a bloodthirsty revolutionist.

Answer 20

Road-mender and Wood-sawyer

Question 21

Name the character: The daughter of Lucie and Charles Darnay. Madame Defarge threatens her life during the Reign of Terror.

Answer 21

Young Lucie Darnay

Question 22

Name the character: A callous prison official who faked his own death. He is hanged and decapitated by a mob after they storm the Bastille.

Answer 22

Foulon

Question 23

Name the character: The grocer’s wife. Turned vicious by the Revolution, she becomes Madame Defarge’s main companion.

Answer 23

The Vengeance

Question 24

Name the character: A frightened young woman who is executed with Carton. She and Carton comfort each other on the way to the guillotine.

Answer 24

A Seamstress