Stories Within Stories
Colonialism
The Door of Darkness
The horror! The horror!
Wild Card
100
The frame story takes place on this river.
What is the Thames?
100
Marlow compares the British with this historical empire
What is the Roman Empire?
100
The two trance-like women were doing this
What is knitting?
100
He told Marlow it was foolish to go in-country.
What is the Swede?
100
He was in charge of the Interior Station
Who is Kurtz?
200
It is the name of the vessel on which the frame story takes place.
What is the Nellie?
200
Marlow was fascinated by this as a child
What is the unexplored spots on maps?
200
He had Marlow sign papers agreeing never to reveal trade secrets
What is the Secretary of the Company?
200
Another Swede had done this upon going in-country
What is hung himself?
200
Why the fat white man came to Africa
What is "To make money, of course. What do you think?"
300
A former shipmate of his is speaking at the very beginning
Who is Marlow?
300
Marlow offers himself as a riverboat captain in this continent to the Company
What is Africa?
300
The Company doctor admitted that measuring this was of no use, but he did it anyway.
What is skull or cranium?
300
Marlow fed this to one slave. His acceptance without emotion demonstrated how the natives had been reduced to animals by the colonizing power.
What is a biscuit?
300
He shipped back more ivory than all other combined.
Who is Kurtz?
400
These five men are in the frame story.
Who are Marlow, the Director of Companies, the Lawyer, and the Accountant, and the narrator?
400
She made Marlow uncomfortable by talking about "weaning those ignorant millions from their horrid ways."
Who is Marlow's aunt?
400
The "changes" would occur here, according to the doctor's cryptic comment.
What is internally, not externally?
400
The fate of an African man whose body Marlow saw on the trek to the Interior.
What is shot in the head?
400
Marlow uses this word to refer to the 16 - 20 men who travel with him
What is "pilgrims"?
500
"This also," according to Marlow, "has been one of the dark places of the earth."
What is London?
500
The sailors on this vessel seen by Marlow were dying at the rate of three a day.
What is the French ship?
500
It is the Engliah translation of the Latin phrase "Morituri te salutant".
What is "We who are about to die salute you."
500
What the fat white man wanted Marlow to do after becoming feverish and being dumped by the natives who were carrying him.
What is take revenge (but there was no one to take revenge on)?
500
This had happened to Kurtz
What is fallen ill?
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