Analyzing Historical and cultural Settings: Mastery Test
Which detail indicates the setting of the passage?
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens (adapted excerpt)
Monseigneur, one of the great lords in power at the Court, held his fortnightly reception in his grand hotel in Paris. Monseigneur was in his inner
room, his sanctuary of sanctuaries, the Holiest of Holiests to the crowd of worshippers in the suite of rooms without Monseigneur was about to take
his chocolate. Monseigneur could swallow a great many things with ease and was by some few sullen minds supposed to be rather rapidly
swallowing France. But, his morning's chocolate could not so much as get into the throat of Monseigneur, without the aid of four strong men besides
the Cook
Yes. It took four men, all four ablaze with gorgeous decoration, and the Chief of them unable to exist with fewer than two gold watches in his pocket,
emulative of the noble and chaste fashion set by Monseigneur, to conduct the happy chocolate to Monseigneur's lips. One lacquey carried the
chocolate-pot into the sacred presence, a second, milled and frothed the chocolate with the little instrument he bore for that function; a third,
presented the favoured napkin; a fourth (he of the two gold watches), poured the chocolate out. It was impossible for Monseigneur to dispense with
one of these attendants on the chocolate and hold his high place under the admiring Heavens. Deep would have been the blot upon his crest if his
chocolate had been ignobly waited on by only three men, he must have fainted of two
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Monseigneur had been out at a little supper last night, where the Comedy and the Grand Opera were charmingly represented. Monseigneur was out
at a little supper most nights, with fascinating company. So polite and so impressible was Monseigneur, that the Comedy and the Grand Opera had
far more influence with him in the tiresome articles of state affairs and state secrets, than the needs of all France.
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