Q 01/05
A) H. Rider Haggard
B) Rudyard Kipling
C) Joseph Conrad
D) Graham Greene
Answer · why
He was born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski and did not speak English fluently until his twenties.
Q 02/05
A) 1907
B) 1914
C) 1899
D) 1902
Answer · why
It ran as a three-part serial in February, March and April.
Q 03/05
A) Mr Kurtz
B) The Manager
C) Charles Marlow
D) The Russian
Answer · why
Conrad said Marlow first appeared in his earlier story Youth.
Q 04/05
A) A dugout canoe
B) An ocean clipper
C) A naval gunboat
D) A river steamboat
Answer · why
He spends months fishing it out of the river and repairing it before he can set off.
Q 05/05
A) Gold
B) Rubber
C) Diamonds
D) Ivory
Answer · why
Kurtz is its most prolific ivory agent, and the manager resents him for it.
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