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Book 2, Chapter 20 Quiz
Test your knowledge of Book 2, Chapter 21. Submit your answers to see your results and get feedback.
In the year 1789, what happens at the Paris office of Tellson's Bank?
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The bank employees go on strike
Customers try to break in while the bank is closed for renovation
The bank is robbed at gunpoint
Aristocrats come to the bank to try to save their property
What purpose does Defarge's wine shop serve as the French Revolution gets underway?
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A symbol of the aristocracy's greed
A center of revolutionary activity
A safe place for aristocrats to hide
A quiet refuge for common people
What is celebrated as the French Independence Day, marking one of the major early events of the French Revolution?
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The taking of the Bastille
The signing of the Declaration of the Rights of Man
The establishment of the French Republic
The storming of the Tuileries Palace
What does Madame Defarge's action of beheading the guard foreshadow?
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The use of the guillotine during the French Revolution
The establishment of a new anarchist government
The eventual fall of the ruling class
Madame Defarge's own beheading later on
