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This English author penned A Tale of Two Cities, published in 1859.
Difficulty: Easy- Charles Dickens
- William Thackeray
- Thomas Hardy
- George Eliot
This young French woman is the daughter of Dr. Manette and becomes the moral center of the novel.
Difficulty: Medium- Miss Pross
- Madame Defarge
- Madame Evrémonde
- Lucie Manette
This rhetorical device dominates the novel's famous opening sentence through paired contrasts.
Difficulty: Hard- Antithesis
- Alliteration
- Anaphora
- Apostrophe
These two European capital cities are referenced in the novel's title.
Difficulty: Easy- Paris and Rome
- London and Paris
- London and Vienna
- Berlin and Paris
This object does Dr. Manette compulsively work on when experiencing psychological relapses.
Difficulty: Medium- A shoemaker's bench and tools
- A writing desk
- A loom for weaving
- A woodworking lathe
This literary movement influenced Dickens's focus on social justice and class conflict in the novel.
Difficulty: Hard- Romanticism
- Naturalism
- Social Realism
- Gothic Revival
This major historical event forms the backdrop of A Tale of Two Cities.
Difficulty: Easy- The English Civil War
- The Napoleonic Wars
- The French Revolution
- The Industrial Revolution
This number of days does Dr. Manette spend in relapse after Lucie's wedding to Charles Darnay.
Difficulty: Medium- Three days
- Five days
- Seven days
- Nine days
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