9 week test

Question 1

What predominant weapon was used in the attack against Marlow and his passengers?

Answer 1

arrows

Question 2

The man near Marlow had been killed wounded by…

Answer 2

a spear

Question 3

What caused the attackers in the forest to retreat?

Answer 3

the steamboats whistle

Question 4

What ability of Kurtz stood out in Marlow’s imagination?

Answer 4

his ability to talk

Question 5

How was Kurtz’s hair described?

Answer 5

bald

Question 6

What was piled on the deck of the steamboat?

Answer 6

ivory

Question 7

What was the subject of the 17 page paper Kurtz wrote for an International Society?

Answer 7

The Suppression of Savage Customs

Question 8

What postscript did Kurtz add at the end of this “pamphlet”?

Answer 8

“Exterminate all the brutes!”

Question 9

Who did Marlow “miss awfully”?

Answer 9

his helmsman

Question 10

What did Marlow do with the wounded man who had died?

Answer 10

he threw him in the river

Question 11

Who was the person who exclaimed, “The station!”

Answer 11

the manager

Question 12

When Marlow and the boat neared the station, they discovered that Mr. Krutz..

Answer 12

was fine

Question 13

What did Marlow give to the man who had shared English tobacco with him?

Answer 13

a book

Question 14

In what language had the man made his notes?

Answer 14

Russian

Question 15

What kind of literary device is used to introduce this novel? What advantages does this offer?

Answer 15

Framing offers context and multiple perspectives

Question 16

What are Marlow’s first words? What does he mean by them?

Answer 16

“And this also has been one of the dark places of the Earth”; talking about London

Question 17

What is happening with the “fascination of abomination”?

Answer 17

It is foreshadowing for the rest of the book

Question 18

What saves the Englishmen? What does this mean?

Answer 18

efficiency, they have civilization and infrastructure

Question 19

What is involved when men try to “tackle the darkness”?

Answer 19

robbery with violence, mass murders, going about it blindly

Question 20

What does this mean “… we knew we were fates before the ebb began to run, to hear about one of Marlow’s inconclusive experiences”?

Answer 20

his conclusions are odd

Question 21

What were some of the results of Marlow’s trip?

Answer 21

he met a poor chap and he became enlightened

Question 22

What are some motives that Marlow gives for making this trip?

Answer 22

he can’t rest too long, the river on the map fascinated him, and he wanted to be a skipper on a steamboat

Question 23

What is learned from the incident of Fresleven? Why does Marlow call it a “glorious affair”?

Answer 23

it showed how life in the country can change people, he calls it a glorious affair because he gets the job

Question 24

What did the Company in Brussels, Begium, and most everyone else see as the purpose of such trips?

Answer 24

make money

Question 25

How does Marlow feel after signing the contract?

Answer 25

uneasy, like a conspirator

Question 26

What do the incidents with the two knitters and the clerk reveal?

Answer 26

death might come on this dangerous trip ahead

Question 27

What takes place in most men according to the doctor and what is his advice?

Answer 27

to change inside