HOD Part 2 Quiz

A half asleep Marlow overhears snipits of a conversation between the uncle and his nephew: “It was more than a year ago” “Anything since then?” “_____________” jerked the nephew. “Lots of it – prime sort – lots – most annoying, from him.” Marlow hears that “that man, along with a half-caste” carried the shipment 300 miles down the river only for “that man” to
_________________________________. Afterwards, Marlow tells us that the uncle and his nephew along with the rest of the Eldorado Expedition are all presumed dead. Marlow then starts his journey towards the inner station. The “fine fellows” he takes with him for his crew are __________________. He mentions how the trees are “massive, immense, running up high” and “it made you feel very small, very lost, and yet it was not altogether depressing, that feeling.” They felt like they were “crawling” to some place where they expected to get something.” For Marlow, he felt like he was crawling towards __________________ – exclusively.” They “penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.” Marlow describes how they were like “wanderers on a prehistoric earth, on an earth that wore the aspect of an unknown planet.” He starts to compare the similarities and differences
between himself and prehistoric man. But, he focused all his attention into steering his steamer, rather than “peering into our creepy thoughts.” Suddenly, they came upon an abandoned ________________ with a pile of wood near the bank with a sign that said _________________________________________. Marlow is also surprised and extremely enthused to find a ________________ about sailing that made him “forget about the jungle and the pilgrims in a delicious sensation of having come upon something unmistakably real.” That night, the incredible _____________________ is suddenly penetrated by a loud __________________________! Because of this, the crew wonders if they will be attacked. Marlow decides to wait it out rather than making any sudden moves. A few hours later, they are able to move on until ___________, little (same word), were flying
about – thick: they were whizzing before my nose.” Marlow has to throw his shoes overboard because ____________________________________. He surprises himself about being so upset over the helmsman’s death. After the incident, Marlow is even more upset because he fears they will never make it to Kurtz, or he’s dead, but regardless, he would never be able to ____________________________________. He then goes off on a tangent about Kurtz, his personality and what he looks like. His __________ looks like “an ivory ball.” We also learn that Kurtz wrote a pamphlet for the International Society for the Suppression of Savage Customs for “future guidance.” His advice was that the whites “must necessarily appear to them [savages] in the nature of __________________________. Marlow was extremely moved by the writing, except for the last part written as sort of a footnote that said “___________________ all the brutes!” Marlow then returns to where he left off in his story and meets a young “harlequin” looking fellow on the bank of the inner station. This guy tells Marlow that the natives, or “simple people” as he calls them, only attacked Marlow and his crew because ________________________________________________.