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Heart of Darkness Part 1

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

a)

Congo

b)

Mississippi

c)

Nile

d)

Thames

2.

What did Marlow have a passion for as a child?

a)

Colonization

b)

Medicine

c)

Ivory

d)

Maps

3.
Who helps Marlow get his job?
a)
his aunt
b)
the doctor
c)
the manager
d)
Kurtz
4.
Those back home would describe Fresleven as
a)
a violent man
b)
gentle and kind
c)
quiet but conniving
d)
feeble and weak
5.

Fresleven got into a fight with a native chief over

a)

2 hens

b)

4 pounds of ivory

c)

the Native Woman

d)

a steamboat

6.
What were the two women at the door of the doctor’s office doing?
a)
preparing contracts
b)
knitting black wool
c)
guarding the company maps
d)
embroidering chair seats
7.

Marlow compares the Congo River to a_________.

a)

snake

b)

alligator mouth

c)

arm

d)

None of the above

8.

If you are a sleepwalker, you might also be known as (a)....

a)

imperturbable

b)

diaphanous

c)

calamity

d)

somnambulist

9.

Who is the protagonist?

a)

Mario

b)

Marlow

c)

Marley

d)

Marrie

10.

What is the narration point of view?

a)

First-person

b)

Second-person

c)

Third-person

d)

Omniscient

11.

Identifying a reason for reading the text is also known as...

a)

Setting a purpose

b)

Predicting

c)

Inferring

d)

Questioning

12.

When using this Reading Strategy, you the reader are determining what you think will happen in the text.

a)

Visualizing

b)

Predicting

c)

Inferring

d)

Connecting

13.

What is it called when you look only at the title and author before you start reading?

a)

Self-assessment strategies

b)

Pre-reading strategies

c)

Preparation strategies

d)

Author strategies