Heart Of Darkness 2 Flashcards

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1
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What is unpardonable sin

A

The scrape the bottom of something that is always supposed to float

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2
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Describe the fireman

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Vertical boiler, like seeing dog with pants and feather hat walk on hind legs, improved specimen

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3
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Why was fireman useful

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He had been instructed

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4
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What was the message in the house

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Wood for you, hurry up, approach cautiously

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5
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What was the title of the book

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An inquiry into some of seamanship , towser or Towson

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What did they give the cannibals

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Three pieces of brass wire that they were supposed to trade on shore, but unless they eat or make hooks to catch fish then useless

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7
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What did the manager wish to preserve

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The appearance

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8
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What are the reasons they would attack

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Fog too thick and jungle banks impenetrable

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What was the trifle of mr. Kurtz

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To know what he belonged to

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10
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Who wanted him to write a pamphlet

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Internal society for the suppression of savage customs , making report for future

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11
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What was the first paragraph about

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Whites approach savages with nature of supernatural being

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12
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Note in the back

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Exterminate all the brutes

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13
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Second rate helmsman but a first rate

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Temptation

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14
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Harlequins face was like

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Autumn sky , overcast then bright

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15
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Natives are …. People

A

Simple

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16
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Describe harlequin

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Russian, government of tombanov, son of arch priest, ran away from school, Russian ship ran away English ship , persuaded Dutch to give him goods

17
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How old is he and how does he get his start

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25 van shuyten, to,d him to go to the devil then talked and made him afraid have cheap goods and guns and , hoped he’d never see his face, sent ivory so that he can’t call a thief

18
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This man (Kurtz)

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Enlarged my mind

19
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What did they call the harlequin

A

English half caste