Heart of Darkness
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Amazing Facts
100
Critics consider Heart of Darkness to be a forerunner of this.
What is modernism?
100
Conrad was born in this country.
What is Poland?
100
This is the year of Conrad's birth
What is 1857?
100
From a very young age, Conrad was fascinated by this.
What is the sea?
200
Heart of Darkness was first printed as this.
What is a serial publication?
200
When he was 9, Conrad was interested in what part of a map of Africa?
What is the "black part"?
200
This is the year that Heart of Darkness was written.
What is 1899?
200
The number of languages Conrad spoke.
What is three?
300
Heart of Darkness differs from novels by Austen, Dickens, and Eliot because it lacks this.
What is clear-cut values?
300
Conrad was an orphan because his parents died as a result of living in exile in Siberia for plotting against whom?
What is the Russian Tsar?
300
Joseph became a British citizen at this age.
What is 29?
300
The job Conrad got with a Belgian company.
What is a steamboat commander?
400
TRUE OR FALSE: Conrad's book is completely autobiographical.
False.
400
This was Joseph Conrad's birth name.
What is Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
400
This is the year that Conrad died.
What is 1924?
400
This was the fate of the man whom Conrad was sent to rescue.
What is death? He died a few days later aboard Conrad's steamboat.
500
This fostered widespread abuse by the Belgians in the Congo.
What is Greed?
500
Conrad was sent up the Congo river to rescue...
What is a company agent?
500
This is the year Conrad went to the Congo to command a steamboat?
What is 1890?
500
The name of leader of Belgium who set up the International Association for the Suppression of Slavery and the Opening up of Central Africa."
Who is King Leopold II?
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