Heart of Darkness Parts 1-2

Name two people who are aboard the Nellie. (Part One)

• Marlow and Kurtz

• Marlow and Fresleven

• the narrator and an accountant

• the narrator and the manager

What did Marlow have a passion for as a child? (Part One)

• Boating

• Medicine

• Ivory

• Maps

Who helps Marlow get his job? (Part One)

• his aunt

• the doctor

• the manager

• Kurtz

What were the two women at the door of the doctor’s office doing? (Part One)

• preparing contracts

• knitting black wool

• guarding the company maps

• embroidering chair seats

What does the company trade? (Part One)

• Rubber

• Indigo

• Ivory

• Blood diamonds

What does Marlow see on his voyage to the African coast that causes him to feel there is a "touch of insanity" in European dealings in Africa? (Part One)

• a warship

• men with faces like "grotesque masks"

• European settlements

• a tiger on the shore

Marlow later refers to the following sight as what?

"They were dying slowly—it was very clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now— nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish gloom." (Part One)

• a grove of death

• a collection of poor souls

• the nature of things

• papier mache Mephistopheles

What happened to Marlow’s steamboat? (Part One)

• It exploded.

• It sank.

• It ran into a hippo carcass

• It wrecked into another steamboat.

At the beginning of Part Two, Marlow overhears the general manager and his uncle talking about Kurtz. Why don't they like him?

On page 54, Marlow talks about the Eldorado expedition, and that "Long afterwards the news came that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals". Who or what do you think the "less valuable animals" are? (Part Two)