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Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1899

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Part 1

Reading Check

1. Who is the narrator of the frame story?

2. Who says, “And this also…has been one of the dark places of the earth”?

3. What does Marlow say he had a passion for when he was a child?

4. Who helps Marlow get his job on the Congo steamboat?

5. Who is the chief of the Inner Station that Marlow hears so much about?

Multiple Choice

1. Where is the Nellie when Marlow tells his story?

A. in France

B. in England

C. in Belgium

D. in the Congo

2. What area are Marlow’s relatives referring to when they say it is “cheap and not so nasty as it looks”?

A. Africa

B. India

C. England

D. Continental Europe

3. When Marlow meets two women just inside the door of the Company offices, what are the two women doing?

A. knitting

B. writing letters

C. bookkeeping

D. arguing

4. From whom does Marlow first hear Kurtz’s name?

A. the man who interviews him at the Company headquarters

B. the pilot of the boat he takes to Africa

C. the chief accountant he meets at the first station

D. the general manager of the Central Station

5. What concern about Kurtz does the Central Station manager express?

A.

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