TOTC characters

Question 1

Charles Darnay

Answer 1

Husband to Lucie, renounces his family name of Evremonde, nephew of imprisoner to Lucie’s father

Question 2

Dr. Alexandre Manette

Answer 2

doctor, unfairly imprisoned by the French in Bastille, became a shoe cobbler, relapses

Question 3

Lucie Manette

Answer 3

young, caring, wife of Darnay, daughter of Manette

Question 4

Madame Defarge

Answer 4

Darnay’s uncle and dad killed her family, has a knitted registry of people she wants killed

Question 5

Sydney Carton

Answer 5

Looks like Charles Darnay, an alcoholic, lawyer, who has a deep love for Lucie, Takes Darnay’s place and sacrifices himself for him and his family

Question 6

Monsieur Defarge

Answer 6

a wine shop owner, an intelligent and committed revolutionary leader in the Saint Antoine section of Paris

Question 7

Mr. Jarvis Lorry

Answer 7

an elderly businessman who works for Tellson’s Bank, close with the manettes

Question 8

Miss Pross

Answer 8

Acts as Lucie’s mom

Question 9

John Barsad

Answer 9

English spy at the old Bailey, aka Solomon Pross

Question 10

Jerry Cruncher

Answer 10

an odd-job-man for Tellson’s Bank; uneducated, short-tempered, superstitious, and gruff

Question 11

Young Jerry

Answer 11

sees his father grave digging

Question 12

Gabelle

Answer 12

estate groundskeeper; asks Darnay to come to France, tax collector for ceremonies.

Question 13

Charles Darnay’s parents

Answer 13

Mom: loved Darnay, did not approve of the evremonde way

Dad: a horrible person who helped the Marques rape and kill 2 people

Question 14

Wood-sawyer

Answer 14

Creepy, pretends that Wood is people at the guillotine, aka mender of roads

Question 15

Mender of Roads

Answer 15

Sees Gaspard under the carriage

Question 16

St. Antoine

Answer 16

slums of Paris portrayed as a person

Question 17

Little Lucie

Answer 17

threatened by Madame Defarge

Question 18

The Farmer and The Woodman

Answer 18

Woodman marks trees to be made into guillotines.

Farmer sets apart tumbrils to be used to carry people to the guillotine during the revolution.

Question 19

Gaspard

Answer 19

Son is killed by the Evremonde carriage, Kills the marquis, found and hung 40ft above a fountain

Question 20

Foulon

Answer 20

Aristocrat, He was taken by the revolutionaries who stuffed his mouth with grass, hung him, and then beheaded him.

Question 21

Monseigneur in Town (the hot chocolate one)

Answer 21

A great lord in court, symbolizes the arrogant French aristocracy

Question 22

Evrémonde, the Marquis

Answer 22

Darnay’s uncle, horrible man, killed by Gaspard

Question 23

The poor little seamstress

Answer 23

23, befriends carton before the guillotine, worried about waiting long for her cousin to join her in heaven.

Question 24

Roger Cly

Answer 24

spy working with John Barsad, fakes death to avoid being killed

Question 25

The Vengeance

Answer 25

The revenge that Madame Defarge wants on the 1st and 2nd estates is because the Evremondes killed her family.

Question 26

Mr. Stryver

Answer 26

Sydney Carton’s employer, the attorney, loves Lucie but is turned down.