heart of darkness quizzes Flashcards

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1
Q

marlow is compared to what as he sits crosslegged and hands out

A

buddha

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2
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this too has been one of the dark places of the earth

this=

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london

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3
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what spots did marlow have a hankering after as a boy on a map

A

spots that were blank

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4
Q

who helped marlow get this job

A

aunt

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5
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where?

company manager

A

central

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6
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where?

grove of death

A

outer

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7
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where?

burning shed

A

central

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8
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where?

rusting rivetss

A

outer

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9
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where?

brickmaker

A

central

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10
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where?

portrait

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central

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11
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where?eldorado expedition

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central

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12
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where?

sunken steamer

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central

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13
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where?

scape goat

A

central

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14
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where?pilgrims

A

cental

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15
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where?reclaimed black man

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outer

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16
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where?

hole in bucket

A

central

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17
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where?

haridresser’s dummy

A

outer

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18
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where?

grass unaffected by two shadows

A

central

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19
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what words does marlow heart that kurtz said thatt sound noble

A

trying to civilize the savages

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20
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who entered the woods and was received like a diver into the ocean

A

the eldorado exploring expedition

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21
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what was comparing to a beetle crawling othe floor of a portico

A

teh steamer

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22
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what kept marlow from going ashore for a howl and a dance

A

his work kept him busy

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23
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who does marlow describe as an improved speciemn

A

the helmesman

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24
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who is aboard the steamer with marlow on the congo

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some pilgrims, 20 cannibals, helmsman, company maannger,

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25
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what is the channel

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deepest part of the congo

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26
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Ah my boy, trust to this—i say trust to this

A

manager’s uncle to manager. saying wilderness will take care of marlow

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27
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you stand the climate—you outlast them all

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manager’s uncle to manager

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28
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what does it mean that “the scoundrel..recovered imperfectly”

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the uncle and company manager are talking about how kurtz recovered form his illness

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29
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he was useful because he had been instructed

A

the helmsman

30
Q

where does ivory come from

A

tusks of elephants

31
Q

each station should be like a ____ on the road toward better things

A

beacon

32
Q

what was described as a “grimy beetle that crawledon the floor of a lofty protico

A

steamship

33
Q

portico

A

talll lofty high porch

34
Q

five things that marlow describe as restraints

A
work 
beliefs,
self apearance
side walks
pavement
police
35
Q

unique appearece of marlow’s helmsamn

A

bone in bottom lip
scars on cheek
dressed in white mena’s clothing

36
Q

was liike tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship
what is it

A

tattered book on seamanship

37
Q

4 things that drove kurtz over the edge

A

isolation
hnger
living in the congo
aaway from white people

38
Q

what does marlow think of woman

A

they are fragile-will break under reality, should stay in parlor with teacup

39
Q

my ____, my ______ my ____, my ______

A

intended
station
river
ivoery

40
Q

why hasn’t the wilderness taken vengeance on the russian

A

he just wants adventure. taking nothing else

41
Q

kurtz’s material aspirations

A

ivory

money

42
Q

what were kurtz’s less material aspirations

A

to be worshipped’ power

43
Q

i was anxious to deal with this shadow by myself alone

A

I=marlow

shadow-kurtz

44
Q

he rose..like avapor exhaled by the earth before me

A

he-kurtz

me-marlow

45
Q

it had horns

A

native sorceror

46
Q

if he makes a row we are lost, i thought to myself

A

he-kurtz

47
Q

i was on the threshold of great things

A

i-kurtz

48
Q

i tried to break the spell of the wilderness that seemed to draw him to its breast by awawkning brutal instincts

A

i-marlow

him-kurtz

49
Q

this alone had beguiled his unlawful soul beyond the bounds of permitted aspirations

A

this -wilderness

heis=kurtz

50
Q

and i wasn’t aruging with a lunatic, either

A

i-marlow

51
Q

his intelligence was perfectly celar–concentrated upon himself with horrible intensity, yet clear

A

his-kurtz

52
Q

but his soul was mad

A

his-kurtz

53
Q

fierce river demon-

A

steamship

54
Q

i pulled the string time after time–

A

marlow

55
Q

stretched her bare arms after us over the somber and glittering river

A

mistress

56
Q

and then that imbecile crowd down on the deck started their little fun, and i could see nothing for the smoke

A

crowd-piilgrims

57
Q

one evidence of orgiinal kurtz

A

gives marlow his stuff in order his good legacy to contriue

58
Q

one evidence of hollow sham

A

my inteneded, my station, my career, my ideas

59
Q

of course, you msut take care of the motives-right motives-always

A

kurtz

60
Q

one morning he gave me a packet of papers and a photogaraph

A

kurtz

61
Q

i looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where teh sun never shines

A

i -marlow

himkurtz

62
Q

and i foudn with huiliation that probably i would haven othing to say

A

i - marlow

63
Q

true, he had made that last stride, he had stepped over theedge, while i had been permitted to draw back my hesitating foot

A

he-kurtz

what edge? life and death

64
Q

i heard once more the echo of his magnificent eloquence..from a soul as pure as acliff of crystal

A

krut’z inteneded

65
Q

describe intended’s house

A

3 long windows in the waiting room-floor to ceiling
large, marble white fireplace, grand piano like a sarcphagus
a tall door

66
Q

describe the intended

A

dressed in all balck
pale
fine hair

67
Q

why does the darkness deeped in the house of the intended

A

marlow feels so much guilt aobut the sham of the kurtz and sees the savagery not the original kurtz.

68
Q

threshold

A

doorway or entacne

69
Q

lofty

A

high up or large in amount

70
Q

postscript

A

exterminate all the brutes