Reading Quiz #6
pages 164 - 199
Thoroughly answer the following questions. Use specific examples to support your answers.
1. Reflect on the following line: “Headlong, mad, and dangerous footsteps to force their way into anybody’s life, footsteps not easily made clean again if once stained red, the footsteps raging in Saint Antoine afar off, as the little circle sat in the dark London window” (165).
2. What happens when Defarge and the others attack the Bastille?
3. Why does Darnay decide to go to France? What does Dickens mean by “drawn to the loadstone rock”? Why does Dickens end the chapter with “For the love of Heaven, of justice, of generosity, of the honor of your noble name”?
4. Reflect on the following dialogue:
"In the name of that sharp female, newly born, and called La Guillotine, why did you come to France?" . . .
"I am not to buried there, prejudged, and without any means of presenting my case?"
"You will see. But, what then? Other people have been similarly buried in worse prisons, before now."
"But never by me, Citizen Defarge."