I - Stave III Quiz — Heart of Darkness

What are the six Black men carrying when Marlow first sees them at the Company Station?

• Small baskets full of earth
• Ivory tusks
• Bundles of rubber
• Crates of supplies

What literary allusion does Conrad use when Marlow enters the grove of death?

• Dante's Inferno
• Milton's Paradise Lost
• Homer's Odyssey
• Shakespeare's The Tempest

What does the chief accountant tell Marlow about Mr. Kurtz?

• He sends in as much ivory as all the others put together
• He has gone insane in the jungle
• He is planning to return to Europe
• He is the accountant's personal friend

What quality does the general manager possess that gives him power in the Congo?

• Triumphant health that never fails
• Superior intelligence and learning
• Strong connections in European politics
• Exceptional organizational skills

How does the chief accountant maintain his immaculate white clothing?

• He taught a native woman to launder them
• He imports clean clothes from Europe monthly
• He washes them himself each evening
• He trades ivory for laundering services

Why does Marlow suspect his steamer may have been deliberately sunk?

• The affair was too stupid to be altogether natural
• He found evidence of sabotage on the hull
• Another agent confessed to the plot
• The manager openly admitted to ordering it

What does Marlow call the particular evil he recognizes at the Company Station?

• A flabby, pretending, weak-eyed devil
• The devil of greed and violence
• The serpent of imperial ambition
• A red-eyed devil of desire

Marlow finds a body with a bullet-hole in the forehead during his overland trek.

The general manager invites Marlow to sit down after his twenty-mile walk.

What does the word "moribund" mean as used in this passage: "These moribund shapes were free as air -- and nearly as thin"?

• At the point of death
• Extremely hungry
• Criminally insane
• Violently angry

What does "rapacious" mean in the phrase "a rapacious and pitiless folly"?

• Aggressively greedy
• Extremely fast
• Deeply religious
• Physically powerful

What does "inscrutable" mean when Marlow says the manager's smile makes phrases "appear absolutely inscrutable"?

• Impossible to understand
• Extremely offensive
• Deeply sincere
• Deliberately cruel

How long is the overland trek from the Outer Station to the Central Station?

• Two hundred miles over fifteen days
• One hundred miles over ten days
• Fifty miles over five days
• Three hundred miles over thirty days