HOD study guide

Question 1

10 symbols of savagery

Answer 1

congo
howl and dance
rotten hippo meat
heads on stakes
native sorceror
cnnbials
mistress
grove of death
wilderness

Question 2

8 autobiographical elemetns

Answer 2

conrad did go on the congo
conrad is mrlow
diary about the trip
the knitting women
accountant at outer station
company manager
boat was sunk when he got there
got sick
kurtz- klein
fainting fat man

Question 3

6 stereotypes of blacks and what they represent

Answer 3

cannibals rep savagery
helmsman-reclaimed
scapegoat-black beaten man
black with white string-europe choking life
canoers-belong here with nature
mistress-wilderness
black with gun-traitor

Question 4

three examples of sound imagery

Answer 4

howl and dance
squirt
pop
voice of wilderness-whisperes
kurtz's voice

Question 5

one irony

Answer 5

philantrhopic pretnese- noble cause -= nothign noble about it

Question 6

5 examples of naturalism in the novel

Answer 6

man of war firing -lugubrious drollery
el dorado being consumed like a sea over a diver
beetle on the floor of a lofty portico
two shadows on grass did not bend a single blade
squiring winchesters
helmsman’s body swept away by current

Question 7

10 symbols of civilization

Answer 7

london
thames
sidwealk
butcher
policeman
clotehs
parlow
white string
intendeed
boook about seaman ship
painting of blind justce
lights on thams

Question 8

ways the wilderness is personified

Answer 8

mouth-mute or whispers
face
heart
bosom- capegoat crawls into bosom
passionate soul-native misteress
stood up in moonlight and venges kurtgz
it beguiles and tricks

Question 9

two lies

Answer 9

marlow tells kurtz’s intended last words

lie of omission-being part of the gang of virtue to the brickmaker

Question 10

3 ways that marlow protects kurtz’s rep

Answer 10

tears off PS
keeping last words a secret
he defends kurtz to the maanger

Question 11

3 major themes

Answer 11

power corrups
man's inhumanity to man
2 sides to every man's heart
imperialism
restraints/ lack of restraints

Question 12

one irony in the novel

Answer 12

kurtgz being short

Question 13

4 examples of foreshadowing

Answer 13

clerk's words
calipher
fates
fresleven's fate
roman phrase

Question 14

6 religious images

Answer 14

drums- Christian
scapegoat
pilgrims praying to ivory
pitiful jupiter
halo on intended
buddha
paper macha mephistophles

Question 15

10 color images

Answer 15

blue eyes-company manager-cold
harlequinn-patcheso  f colors
map- colors
brussles- white
ivory-white
white linen- corruption
dark green so much its black-forest
black knitting
colorful lights on the thames-civiliaztion

Question 16

4 women stereotypes

Answer 16

fiance and aunt-naivety
mistress-wilderness
intended- what civilization thinks it should be
accountant’s person- recliamed

Question 17

7 clothign imagery

Answer 17

septs into fresleven's shoes
throws bloody shoes overboard
russian asks for shoes
starched clothes
kurtz's mistress's accessories
russian's patched clothing
white string on neck
women in black
intended in black

Question 18

two ironies

Answer 18

black / white

white is usually purity but now its guilt

Question 19

two major themes

Answer 19

faith keeps a man from becoming hollow

man is ineffective when pinned against nature

Question 20

5 light symbols

Answer 20

chief accountant's clothing- light, white
beacon-kurtz's quote
lights on river- civilization
torch of blind justic
candle at end- kurtz's life
fire-ceremonies 
light around intended's foreheard

Question 21

6 contrasts

Answer 21

civilization vs. savagery
sanity vs insanity
congo vs. thames
black vs. white
marlow vs kurtz

Question 22

6 white men stereotypes

Answer 22

russian- adventure
fat man- europe lazy
chief accountant- work
manager- hollow
kurtz-coruption
el doroado--insiginfigance

Question 23

7 restraints

Answer 23

work
beliefs
appearance
police
sidewalk
butcher
health