Hi yall, I am a eleventh grade summer school teacher, and I need someone to answer some questions or make me an answer key to questions of the book tale of two cities. I am too busy at school to do it so I am hoping someone would help..?! If anyone would like to help please let me know and I'll give you the questions.. thanks ahead of time, ~Mr. Anderson
Maybe if you post the questions, someone will know whether or not they can help . . . ?
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"If it is honorable for you to disturb the dead, I shall consider it an honor and will make it my ambition to disturb your living." - Captain Miles Hazzard
After seeing that request, I won't feel dishonest in giving students answers for their schoolwork.
Sure, angryteacher, just post the questions, and we will surely help.
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Enraged English Teacher
Originally Posted by angryteacher
Why are you angry? I taught high school English. What are your questions?
[FONT=Arial Black]Joe Gough[/FONT]
Book 2 Chapter 5
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1.) This chapter is mostly about:
A.) the accident in the road
B.) the Duke's palace
C.) the Marquis' handsome face
D.) Monsieur Defarge's philosophy
2.) the date is now:
A.) July, 1790
B.) July, 1780
C.) July, 1800
D.) July, 1870
3.) The action of this chapter is set in:
A.) London
B.) Dover
C.) Los Angeles
D.) Paris
4.) The Marquis is about how old?
A.) 30
B.) 40
C.) 50
D.) 60
5.) We can tell that the meeting between the Duke and the Marquis
A.) was a great success
B.) did not take place
C.) did not go well for Marquis
D.) ended in bloodshed
6.) From the story you can tell that the Marquis' carraige has
A.) has ran over a child
B.) lost a wheel
C.) run over a dog
D.) gotten stuck in a ditch
7.) You can tell that the child's father is
A.) Monsieur Defarge
B.) the Marquis
C.) the Duke
D.) Gaspard
8.) You can figure out from the story that the tall, thin figure who follows the Marquis' carriage is
A.) Gaspard
B.) the Duke
C.) Monsieur Defarge
D.) Charles Darnay
9.) Which of the following words best describes the mood of the Marquis after having run over the child?
A.) Fear
B.) Sadness
C.) Indifference
D.) Horror
10.) When one of his gold coins is thrown back at him, the mood of the Marquis' changes to
A.) Anger
b.) Sadness
c.) Fear
D.) Horror
1.) What kind of a person is the Marquis? Why do you think his greatest concern seems to be for his horses?
2.) Who do you suppose threw the gold coin at the Marquis' carriage? Explain your answer.
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There's the questions, I still have much more, but I was wondering if I put up more if you'd be kind enough to answer them? I am just asking ahead of time so I don't have to type it all for no reason.... thank's for answering these, really I do appreciate it. I have more!
You do realize that answering such questions might actually FORCE us to read Book 2, Chapter 5? These questions are fiendishly clever. I suspect that forcing some unsuspecting student to actually read Chapter 5 word for word is the hidden agenda behind all of this! Well, I was not born yesterday. I am not so gullible and I am not going to take this lying down!
I am going to try downloading the entire text of Tale of Two Cities from
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/9/98/98.txt
Then I shall cut and past just Book 2 Chapter 5, to lessen the search time, and isolate it to the chapter in question.
Gutenberg.com does mention this in the Subject line:
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Fiction
The date may provided may actually aid in answering some questions.
Based on this alone, I will choose A.) July, 1790
as the answer to question #2.
I shall also rely upon the excellent and free resources at sparknotes.com
If all this fails, I shall devise ingenious search strings and use google.com to find the questions already answered for me in the posts and essays of various web sites.
There is never, I repeat NEVER, any reason to be rash and hasty and actually read any assignments. Reading (I wont even use that wretched verb), rather skimming should be considered only as a last resort, after all other avenues have been explored and exhausted.
After all, half of all knowledge lies in knowing where and how to find it.
Last edited by Sitaram; 06-26-2005 at 07:37 PM.
Step 1:
The Table of Contents tells me that the cursed chapter which we need to cut and paste is entitled The Jackal:
Book the Second--the Golden Thread
Chapter I Five Years Later
Chapter II A Sight
Chapter III A Disappointment
Chapter IV Congratulatory
Chapter V The Jackal
Chapter VI Hundreds of People
Chapter VII Monseigneur in Town
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OK, Microsoft Words wordcount function tells me that this chapter is 2,136 words long. You don't expect me to read all that, do you?
Last edited by Sitaram; 06-26-2005 at 07:33 PM.
Something is rotten in Denmark! I do not find the string "coin" appearing in "The Jackal". I do find a coin throwing scene, however, when I search the entire text, in
Chapter VII Monseigneur in Town. And further searches reveal that this is the only mention of the word "coin" (singular) in the entire novel.
(excerpt)
He took out his purse.
"It is extraordinary to me," said he, "that you people cannot take
care of yourselves and your children. One or the other of you is for
ever in the way. How do I know what injury you have done my horses.
See! Give him that."
He threw out a gold coin for the valet to pick up, and all the heads
craned forward that all the eyes might look down at it as it fell.
The tall man called out again with a most unearthly cry, "Dead!"
He was arrested by the quick arrival of another man, for whom the
rest made way. On seeing him, the miserable creature fell upon his
shoulder, sobbing and crying, and pointing to the fountain, where
some women were stooping over the motionless bundle, and moving
gently about it. They were as silent, however, as the men.
"I know all, I know all," said the last comer. "Be a brave man, my
Gaspard! It is better for the poor little plaything to die so, than
to live. It has died in a moment without pain. Could it have lived
an hour as happily?"
"You are a philosopher, you there," said the Marquis, smiling.
"How do they call you?"
"They call me Defarge."
"Of what trade?"
"Monsieur the Marquis, vendor of wine."
"Pick up that, philosopher and vendor of wine," said the Marquis,
throwing him another gold coin, "and spend it as you will.
The horses there; are they right?"
Without deigning to look at the assemblage a second time, Monsieur
the Marquis leaned back in his seat, and was just being driven away
with the air of a gentleman who had accidentally broke some common
thing, and had paid for it, and could afford to pay for it; when his
ease was suddenly disturbed by a coin flying into his carriage,
and ringing on its floor.
"Hold!" said Monsieur the Marquis. "Hold the horses! Who threw that?"
He looked to the spot where Defarge the vendor of wine had stood,
a moment before; but the wretched father was grovelling on his face
on the pavement in that spot, and the figure that stood beside him
was the figure of a dark stout woman, knitting.
"You dogs!" said the Marquis, but smoothly, and with an unchanged front,
except as to the spots on his nose: "I would ride over any of you
very willingly, and exterminate you from the earth. If I knew which
rascal threw at the carriage, and if that brigand were sufficiently
near it, he should be crushed under the wheels."
Sounds to me like the answer to 10 is ANGER.
10.) When one of his gold coins is thrown back at him, the mood of the Marquis' changes to
A.) Anger
6.) From the story you can tell that the Marquis' carraige has
A.) has ran over a child
B.) lost a wheel
C.) run over a dog
D.) gotten stuck in a ditch
ANSWER: A.) has run over a child
7.) You can tell that the child's father is
A.) Monsieur Defarge
B.) the Marquis
C.) the Duke
D.) Gaspard
ANSWER: A.) Monsieur Defarge
Last edited by Sitaram; 06-26-2005 at 08:19 PM.
as you have the questions, teacher, why do you need US to make you an answer key? i assume you've read the book?
shh!!!
the air and water have been here a long time, and they are telling stories.
Sparknotes.com leads me to suspect that the Novel takes place in Paris
So, the answer to 3.) The action of this chapter is set in: D.) Paris
(excerpt)
In France, the cruel Marquis Evrémonde runs down a plebian child with his carriage. Manifesting an attitude typical of the aristocracy in regard to the poor at that time, the Marquis shows no regret, but instead curses the peasantry and hurries home to his chateau, where he awaits the arrival of his nephew, Darnay, from England.
In Chapter I, "In Secret" we find the answer to
4.) The Marquis is about how old?
A.) 30
B.) 40
C.) 50
D.) 60
by doing a string search on Evremond, the Marquis' last name:
ANSWER: B.) 40
(excerpt)
"Citizen Defarge," said he to Darnay's conductor, as he took a slip
of paper to write on. "Is this the emigrant Evremonde?"
"This is the man."
"Your age, Evremonde?"
"Thirty-seven."
"Married, Evremonde?"
"Yes."
"Where married?"
"In England."
"Without doubt. Where is your wife, Evremonde?"
"In England."
"Without doubt. You are consigned, Evremonde, to the prison of La Force."
A string search on " duke " reveals that the word does not appear even once in the novel. The same search on spark notes' List of Characters come up empty. Hence I choose:
5.) We can tell that the meeting between the Duke and the Marquis
A.) was a great success
B.) did not take place
C.) did not go well for Marquis
D.) ended in bloodshed
ANSWER B.) DID NOT TAKE PLACE
somebody, anybody! isn't the teacher s'posed to know this?
shh!!!
the air and water have been here a long time, and they are telling stories.
amuse, i have not read this book. I am a summer school teacher and i am given books to have the kids read. this is not my lesson plan.
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