II - Stave I Quiz — Heart of Darkness

Where is Marlow when he overhears the conversation between the Manager and his uncle?

• Inside the trading station office
• Lying on the deck of his steamboat
• Walking along the riverbank
• Sitting in the Manager's quarters

What does the Manager hope will eliminate Kurtz as a rival?

• A formal dismissal from the Company
• The hostile African climate
• A rival trading expedition
• An order from the Administration in Europe

According to the overheard conversation, what did Kurtz believe each station should be?

• A military outpost for territorial control
• A beacon for humanizing, improving, and instructing
• A warehouse exclusively for ivory storage
• A self-sustaining agricultural colony

What does Conrad compare the steamboat to as it travels upriver?

• A wounded animal limping through the forest
• A sluggish beetle crawling on the floor of a lofty portico
• A ghost ship drifting through fog
• A serpent winding through tall grass

How does Marlow describe the experience of traveling upriver?

• Like a military campaign into enemy territory
• Like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world
• Like sailing across an endless ocean
• Like descending into an underground cave

Who transported Kurtz's ivory downriver?

• The Manager himself
• Kurtz personally escorted it
• An English half-caste clerk
• A team of native porters

What mysterious sounds does Marlow hear at night during the journey upriver?

• Animal howling from the forest
• The roll of drums behind the curtain of trees
• Gunshots from distant stations
• Chanting from the steamboat crew

What provision did the cannibal crew bring aboard that went rotten?

• Dried fish
• Hippo-meat
• Cassava root
• Salted beef

Did Marlow's steamboat sink during the journey upriver?

Did the Eldorado Exploring Expedition return safely from the wilderness?

In context, what does "implacable" mean in "the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention"?

• Peaceful and calm
• Unable to be appeased; relentless
• Easily disturbed
• Completely invisible

What does "pestilential" mean when the Manager describes a rival trader as "a pestilential fellow"?

• Extremely wealthy
• Physically imposing
• Destructive and harmful; plague-like
• Highly educated

What are "shoals" in the context of river navigation?

• Schools of fish blocking the channel
• Areas of shallow water or sandbars
• Fallen trees across the river
• Strong underwater currents