Heart of Darkness

Who helps Marlow get his job on the steamship?

• his aunt

• the doctor

• the manager

• his father

The narrator compares Marlow and the way he is sitting to:

• An idol

• A tiger waiting to spring

• A cloud

• A prophet

What does Marlow say about Fresleven's bones when he finds them?

• they are scattered

• they are nailed to a tree

• they have not been moved at all

• they are nowhere to be found

What are the five men doing on the ship as Marlow tells his story?

• waiting to move

• sailing down the (Congo) river

• docked at port

• trying to keep it from sinking

Marlow criticism of early colonists in Africa is:

• they were too violent

• they were too weak

• they didn't stay long enough

• they didn't get what they came for

Name two people who are aboard the Nellie.

• Marlow and Kurtz

• Marlow and Fresleven

• the narrator and an accountant

• the narrator and the manager

Marlow is on the _______________(river - when telling his story) at the beginning of the novel.

• Congo

• Mississippi

• Nile

• Thames

Who helps Marlow get his job?

• his aunt

• the doctor

• the manager

• Kurtz

Those back home would describe Fresleven as

• a violent man

• gentle and kind

• quiet but conniving

• feeble and weak

What happened to Marlow’s steamboat?

• It exploded.

• It sank. 

• It ran into a hippo carcass

• It wrecked into another steamboat.