WorksheetsHeart of Darkness Parts 1-2
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 3hrs 16mins
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)
What does Marlow and his crew come upon about 50 miles below the Inner Station? (Part Two)
free wood
an abandoned boat
a corpse
Kurtz
How do Marlow's shoes get soaked in blood? (Part Two)
he is hit by an arrow
when the Helmsman dies
a pilgrim shoots him
they slaughter a hippo
What was the title of the treatise Kurtz wrote? (Part Two)
On the Suppression of Savage Customs
On the Vitality of the Ivory Trade
On the Responsibilities of Colonization
Man, God, and Savage Customs
Why are they surprised when they arrive at the Inner Station? (Part Two)
