English Final Exam

Question 1

The Woodman(France, B1, Chapter 1)

Answer 1

Represents the controlling of fate. He’s cutting down trees. Peoples’ lives are rooted in the trees and the Woodman cutting them down represents people dying by the guillotine.

Question 2

The Farmer(France, B1, Chapter 1)

Answer 2

Already preparing tumbrils(carts that carry and deposit prisoners, traditionally used during the French Revolution) for the Guillotine. He symbolizes imminent death by the French Revolution.

Question 3

Wine(Throughout book)

Answer 3

Represents blood. Appears when blood about to be shed. Ex. Chapter 5: Large wine cask is spilled into the street.

Question 4

Gorgon/Stone Faces(France, B2, Chapter 9)

Answer 4

Used when talking about the chateau of Monsieur the Marquis. Represents the emotionless domination of the aristocrats.

Question 5

St. Antoine(symbol, France)

Answer 5

Represents unity and the mob

Question 6

Jackal

Answer 6

Representative of the original Sydney Carton that we encounter. A menial worker under Mr. Stryver.

Question 7

Footsteps

Answer 7

The footsteps of Carton as he walks in the Mannette house and in the last chapter (Footsteps die out) Carton dies. The references to footsteps call them fake ect… But Cartons are the “actual tread”

Question 8

Lion

Answer 8

Representative of Mr. Stryver’s role in a dominant partnership with Carton.

Question 9

Shadows

Answer 9

Commenly used before a character comes to realize a feeling that they thought was dead.

Question 10

Golden Thread

Answer 10

Represents Lucie Manette and her golden hair as well her ability to tie everyone together.

Question 11

Grindstone

Answer 11

A place for swords to be sharpened. Also used with the earth as the larger grindstone. Represents blood being spilt.

Question 12

Scarecrows

Answer 12

Represent the French Peasants.

Question 13

Blue Flies

Answer 13

Annoying people buzzing in the courtroom.

Question 14

Fountains

Answer 14

Places where life is sustained through retrieval of water; place where human connection is sustained through gathering/conversation when they come to collect water; the “poisoning” of the water (Gaspard is hung about the fountain) is dire from a survival and psychological stand point.

Question 15

Fire

Answer 15

DOWN WITH THE ARISTOCRATS (FOReSHADOWING DEATH OF ALL ARISTOCRATS. ARUN IS THROWING)

Question 16

Birds of Fine Song and Feathers

Answer 16

Symbolize the upper-class. (Just the second estate)

Question 17

Shoemaker’s Bench

Answer 17

The old life of Manette

Question 18

The Vengeance

Answer 18

The fight of the peasents against the aristocracy.

Question 19

Madame Defarge

Answer 19

She represents fate. She is knitting the names of people who will be killed. She is similar to the Woodman

Question 20

Knitting

Answer 20

Madame Defarge’s knitting appears harmless but it represents the vengeance of the peasants with how she’s sentencing others to death.

Question 21

Sea

Answer 21

The mob that assembled when they were taking the bastile

Question 22

Charles Darnay description

Answer 22

Charles Darnay is described as handsome and kind but perhaps a little thoughtless in A Tale of Two Cities. He willingly gives up his inheritance but fails to arrange for someone else to manage the estate in his absence. He returns to France to save a former servant from death, not realizing that the revolutionaries will kill him if he answers the summons

Question 23

Three Estates

Answer 23

The three different economic classes. The third estate was the only one that was being taxed. First Estate (Clergy) Second Estate (Nobility)

Question 24

The storming of the Bastille

Answer 24

On 14 July 1789, a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as the Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob. The prison had become a symbol of the monarchy’s dictatorial rule, and the event became one of the defining moments in the Revolution that followed.

Question 25

Book the First (Time and what is going on)

Answer 25

1775, this is mostly a setup for the rest of the book. Ther are still a lot of important elements to remember though. The woodman and farmer and the wineshop.

Question 26

Book the Second (Time and what is going on)

Answer 26

1780-1789 This is the book right before the revolution begins. There is a lot of build-up in suspense during this book.

Question 27

Book the Third (Time and what is going on)

Answer 27

1792, If you don’t know the ending your stupid. Not helpful Arun… peasants take over aristrocrats.

Question 28

Start and end of the revolution

Answer 28

Key moments are in 1789-1792

Question 29

What are the major causes of the revolution

Answer 29

There was widespread famine. Also, several years of bad harvest and very extreme taxes and oppression.

Question 30

What caused the reign of terror

Answer 30

The beheading of Louis (If there are other more prominent reasons do add them). The peasants revolting ARUN!

Question 31

“recalled to life”

Answer 31

The resurrection of characters emotionally or physically. Court scenes have a lot of “recalled to life” moments.

Question 32

doubles

Answer 32

Theme around chapter pairs, Carton and Darnay, London and Paris, Lucie and Defarge.

Question 33

mobs

Answer 33

Representative of blood being spilt and violence

Question 34

knitting

Answer 34

Appearing harmless to distract from hunger in France but actually is stealthy and vengeful.

Question 35

oppression/compassion

Answer 35

In the beginning, the aristocrats were oppressing the peasants but it was flipped by the end. Compassion fuels a lot of the actions in this novel like Darnay’s first court.

Question 36

vengeance

Answer 36

The main emotion that fuels the French Revolution and especially Madame Defarge’s pursuit of the Darnay family.

Question 37

sacrifice

Answer 37

Main theme of the book is sacrificing for redemption or sacrificing for the people they love, usually heartfelt moments in the book.

Question 38

Charles Darnay

Answer 38

The object of all this staring and blaring, was a young man of about five and twenty, well-grown and well-looking, with a sunburnt cheek and dark eye. His condition was that of a young gentleman. He was plainly dressed in black, or very dark grey, and his hair, which was long and dark, was gathered in a ribbon at the back of his neck; more to be out of his way than for ornament. An emotion of the mind will express itself through any covering of the body, so the paleness which his situation engendered came through the brown upon his cheek, showing the soul to be stronger than the sun.He was otherwise quite self possessed, bowed to the Judge, and stood quiet” (p. 92-93)

Question 39

Dr. Alexander Manette:

Answer 39

“a man of very remarkable appearance in respect of the absolute whiteness of his hair, and a certain indescribable intensity of face: not an active kind, but pondering and self communing. When this expression was upon him, he looked as if he were old; but when it was stirred and broken up – as it was now, in a moment, on his speaking to his daughter, he became a handsome man, not past the prime of his life” (p. 94)

Question 40

Lucie Manette

Answer 40

a young lady of not more than seventeen, in a riding-cloak, and still holding her straw travelling-hat by its ribbon, in her hand. As his eyes rested on a short, slight, pretty figure, a quantity of golden hair, a pair of blue eyes that met his own with an inquiring look, and a forehead with a singular capacity (remembering how young and smooth is was), of a lifting and knitting itself into an expression that was not quite one of perplexity, or wonder, or alarm, or merely of a bright fixed attention, though it included all the four expressions” (p. 52

Question 41

Madame Defarge:

Answer 41

“a stout woman of about his own age [of 30], with a watchful eye that seldom seemed to look at anything, a large hand heavily ringed, a steady face, strong features, and great composure of manner. There was a character about Madame Defarge, from which one might have predicted that she did not often make mistakes against herself in any of the reckonings over which she presided. Madame Defarge being sensitive to cold, was wrapped in fur, and had a quantity of bright shawl twined about her head, though not to the concealment of her large ear-rings. Her knitting was before her, but she had laid it down to pick her teeth with a toothpick. Thus engaged, with her right elbow supported by her left hand, Madame Defarge said nothing when her lord came in, but coughed just one grain of cough. This, in combination with the lifting of her darkly defined eyebrows over her toothpick by the breadth of a line, suggested to her husband that he would do well to look around the shop among the customers, for any new customer who had dropped in while he was away” (p. 63-64)

Question 42

Sydney Carton:

Answer 42

“idlest and most uncompromising of men” (p. 117)
-Looks like Darnay

Question 43

Monsieur Defarge

Answer 43

“a bull necked, martial-looking man of thirty, and he should have been of a hot temperament, for, although it was a bitter day, he wore no coat, but carried one slung over his shoulder, His shirt sleeves were rolled up, too, and his brown arms were bare to the elbows. Neither did he wear anything more on his head than his own crisply curling short dark hair. He was a dark man altogether, with good eyes and a good bold breadth between them. Good humoured looking on the whole, but implacable looking too; evidently a man of a strong resolution and a set purpose; a man not desirable to be met, rushing down a narrow pass with a gulf on either side, for nothing would turn the man” (p. 63)

Question 44

Jarvis Lorry

Answer 44

Very orderly and methodical he looked, with a hand on each knee, and a loud watch ticking a sonorous sermon under his flapped waistcoat, as though it pitted its gravity and longevity against the levity and evanescence of the brisk fire. He had a good leg, and was a little vain of it, for his brown stockings fitted sleek and close, and were of a fine texture;, his shoes and buckles too, though plain, were trim. He wore an old little sleek crisp flaxen wig, setting very close to his head: which wig, it is to be presumed, was made of hair, but which looked far more as though it were spun of filaments of silk of glass. His linen, though not of a fineness in accordance with his stockings, was as white as the tops of the waves that broke upon the neighboring beach, or the specks of sail that glinted in the sunlight far at sea. A face, habitually suppressed and quieted, was still lighted up under the quaint wig by a pair of moist bright eyes that it must have cost their owner, in years gone by, some pains to drill to the composed and reserved expression of Tellson’s Bank. He had a healthy colour in his cheeks, and his face, though lined, bore few traces of anxiety.” (p. 49)

Question 45

Miss Pross

Answer 45

“A wild looking woman, whom even in his agitation, Mr Lorry observed to be all of a red color, and to have red hair, and to be dressed in some extraordinary tight fitting fashion, and to have on her head a most wonderful bonnet like a Grenadier wooden measure, and good measure too, or a great Stilton cheese” (p. 58)

Question 46

Solomon Pross

Answer 46

“Age, about forty years; height, about five feet nine; black hair; complexion dark; generally, rather handsome visage; eyes dark, face thin, long, and sallow; nose aquiline, but not straight, having a peculiar inclination towards the left cheek; expression, therefore, sinister” (p. 206)

Question 47

Jerry Cruncher

Answer 47

“He had eyes that assorted very well with that decoration, being of a surface black, with no depth in the color or form, and much too near together – as if they were afraid of being found out in something, singly, if they kept too far apart. They had a sinister expression, under an old cocked-hat like a three cornered spittoon, and over a great muffler for the chin and throat, which descended nearly to the wearer’s knees…Except on the crown, which was raggedly bald, he had stiff, black hair, standing jaggedly all over it, and growing down hill almost to his broad, blunt nose.” (p. 45)

Question 48

Young Jerry

Answer 48

“a grisly urchin of twelve, who was [Cruncher’s] express image” (p. 85)

Question 49

Mender of Roads (2)

Answer 49

a grizzled mender of the roads…[blue] cap in hand” (p. 145)

“a little man with a redundancy of gesture (he had once been a mender of roads)” (p. 305)

Question 50

Gaspard

Answer 50

“one tall joker so besmirched, his head more out of a long squalid bag of a night cap than in it”

Question 51

Foulon

Answer 51

“Wretched old sinner of more than threescore years and ten” (p. 251)

Question 52

Marquis Everemonde:

Answer 52

“a man of about sixty, handsomely dressed, haughty in paleness; every feature in it clearly defined; one set expression on it. The nose, beautifully formed otherwise, was very slightly pinched a the top of each nostril. In those two compressions, or dints, the only little change that the face ever showed, resided. They persisted in changing colour sometimes, and they would occasionally dilated and contracted by something like a faint pulsation; then, they gave a look of treachery, and cruelty, to the whole countenance. Examined with attention, its capacity of helping such a look was to be found in the mouth, and the lines of the orbits of the eyes, being much too horizontal and thin; still, in the effect the face made, it was a handsome face, and a remarkable one” (p. 140)

Question 53

The poor little seamstress:

Answer 53

“a young woman, with a slight girlish form, a sweet spare face in which there was no vestige of color, and large widely opened patient eyes” (p. 383-384)

Question 54

The Vengeance:

Answer 54

“The short, rather plump wife of a starved grocer, and the mother of two children withal” (p. 251)

Question 55

Mr. Stryver:

Answer 55

“a man of little more than thirty, but looking twenty years older than he was, stout, loud, red, bluff, and free from and drawback of delicacy, had a pushing way of shouldering himself (morally and physically) into companies and conversations, that argued well for his shouldering his way up in life” (p. 110)

Question 56

What place has deep ditches, double drawbridge, massive stone walls, eight great towers

Answer 56

The Bastille

Question 57

What place has a large stone courtyard, two stone sweeps of staircase
meeting in a stone terrace, heavy stone balustrades, stone urns, stone flowers, stone faces of men, and stone heads of lions

Answer 57

Château

Question 58

What place is very small, very
dark, very ugly, very incommodious, old-fashioned place,

Answer 58

London Tellson’s

Question 59

What place is in a wing of a large house, approached by a courtyard and shut off from the street by a high wall and a strong gate

Answer 59

Paris Tellson’s

Question 60

The place Darnay was taken before he was to be executed

Answer 60

Conciergerie

Question 61

Prison in which Darnay is kept upon being imprisoned in France, “gloomy prison, dark and filthy, and
with a horrible smell of foul sleep in it”

Answer 61

La Force

Question 62

English Courthouse in which Darnay is tried for treason

Answer 62

Old Bailey

Question 63

The device used to execute the French nobles and often referred to with female pronouns

Answer 63

Guillotine

Question 64

Dingy room, messy, lots of books and papers in front a fireplace. There was much wine..

Answer 64

Stryver’s Office

Question 65

What place is the quiet street-corner where the Manettes live in England

Answer 65

Soho

Question 66

Where do the Defarges work and meet with the other Jacques

Answer 66

Wine Shop