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1. 1.

   Fill in the blanks with the correct number or name.

   1. The number in the name of the novel from which this story is taken ______________________________
   2. The number that represents the year in which the story begins ______________________________
   3. The number of years Dr Manette was imprisoned __________________________
   4. The number Dr Manette was given in prison ______________________
   5. The name of the two cities where the novel is set ________________________ and _______________________
   6. The name of the bank where Mr Lorry worked _______________________
   7. The name of the person who kept Dr Manette immediately after he was released from prison __________________
   8. The name of a tool that cobblers use ______________________
   9. The name given to a small room at the top of a house ____________________________
2. 2.

   'You have a visitor, you see', said Monsieur Defarge.

   1. Who was Defarge speaking to?
   2. Who was the visitor?
   3. Why had the visitor come?
3. 3.

   'Monsieur Manette', Mr Lorry continued, 'do you remember nothing of this man? Look at him. Look at me. Is there no old banker, no old business, no old servant, no old time, rising in your mind, Monsieur Manette?'

   1. What question had Mr Lorry asked Monsieur Manette just before this?
   2. What reaction did Mr Lorry hope to draw from Monsieur Manette?
   3. How did Monsieur Manette react to the question Mr Lorry asked in the given lines?
4. 4.

   'All that I may tell you, here and now, is, that your agony is over, and that I have come here to take you from it, and that we go to England to be at peace and at rest.'

   1. Pick out the contrasting description given in these lines.
   2. Who says these lines and to whom? What is the relationship between these two people? 
   3. Where were the speaker and the listener at this point in the story? Where did one of them wish to take the other and why?
5. 5.

   How do you think Lucie felt when she first saw her father? Do you think that was what she had expected to see?

6. 6.

   What was the 'hard, hard' history of Lucie's father?