Q 01/05

Who wrote Heart of Darkness?

A) H. Rider Haggard

B) Rudyard Kipling

C) Joseph Conrad

D) Graham Greene

Answer · why

C) Joseph Conrad

He was born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski and did not speak English fluently until his twenties.

Q 02/05

In what year was Heart of Darkness first published?

A) 1907

B) 1914

C) 1899

D) 1902

Answer · why

C) 1899

It ran as a three-part serial in February, March and April.

Q 03/05

Who narrates the main story in Heart of Darkness?

A) Mr Kurtz

B) The Manager

C) Charles Marlow

D) The Russian

Answer · why

C) Charles Marlow

Conrad said Marlow first appeared in his earlier story Youth.

Q 04/05

Marlow is hired as captain of what kind of vessel?

A) A dugout canoe

B) An ocean clipper

C) A naval gunboat

D) A river steamboat

Answer · why

D) A river steamboat

He spends months fishing it out of the river and repairing it before he can set off.

Q 05/05

What commodity does the Company trade in?

A) Gold

B) Rubber

C) Diamonds

D) Ivory

Answer · why

D) Ivory

Kurtz is its most prolific ivory agent, and the manager resents him for it.

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