1. Explain the context of this quotation and then explain the meaning. Be sure to mention any applicable literary terms. This answer does not need to be long. “And then they began to fish. They fished with a spade, at first. Presently the honored parent appeared to be adjusting some instrument like a great corkscrew. Whatever tools they worked with, they worked hard . . . They were still fishing perseveringly, when he peeped in at the gate for the second time; but, now they seemed to have got a bite. There was a screwing and complaining sound down below, and their bent figures were strained, as if by weight. By slow degrees the weight broke away the earth upon it , and came to the surface.” (123-124)

2.Explain the context of this quotation and then explain the meaning. Be sure to mention any applicable literary terms. This answer does not need to be long. “It is frightful, messieurs. How can the women and the children draw water! Who can gossip of an evening, under that shadow? When I left the village, Monday evening as the sun was going to bed, and looked back from the hill, the shadow struck across the church, across the mill, across the prison—seemed to strike across the earth, messieurs, to where the sky rests upon it!” (132)

3. What is Madame Defarge knitting?

4. What surprising news does the spy give to Monsieur and Madame Defarge? What are the implications of this news, what is the irony of it?

5. Explain the context of this quotation and then explain the meaning. Be sure to mention any applicable literary terms. This answer does not need to be long. "There, with closed doors, and in a mysterious and guilty manner, Mr. Lorry hacked the shoemaker's bench to pieces, while Miss Pross held the candle as if she were assisting at a murder . . . The burning of the body (previously reduced to pieces convenient for the for the purpose) was commenced without delay in the kitchen fire; and the tools, shoes, and leather were buried in the garden."

6. Reflect on the following quotation. This one should be a little longer than the rest. "I would ask you, dearest, to be very generous with him always, and very lenient on his faults when he is not nearby. I would ask you to believe that he has a heart he very, very seldom reveals, and that there are deep wounds in it. My dear, I have seen it bleeding."