Below are sets of multiple choice and T/F questions to test your knowledge of the novella. At the very bottom of the page is the answer key. Good luck!
What is the self-described profession of the first-class agent that Marlow meets during his time at the Central Station?
a) Manager
b) Accountant
c) Brick-maker
d) Wanderer
2. True or False: the leader of the Eldorado Exploring Expedition is the cousin of the manager in charge of the Central Station?
3. When Marlow first arrives in the Congo and starts to make his way toward his first designated station, what does he see the Company doing nearby?
a) mining for coal
b) farming palm oil
c) killing animals for their hides
d) building a railway
4. How does the steamboat that Marlow is supposed to captain become destroyed?
a) it was attacked by natives
b) the bottom was torn apart by rocks
c) it was shot at by another rival company ship
d) it was caught in a landslide
5. True or false: The helmsman was the only crew-man to die during the natives' attack on the steamboat near the Inner Station?
6. Why did the natives suddenly stop attacking Marlow's steamboat?
a) the steam whistle scared them off
b) the pilgrims were massacring them with gunfire
c) another ship came to the steamboat's aid
d) there was an explosion nearby that scared them away
7. When Marlow first meets the man that resembles a harlequin at the Inner Station, what does he give him?
a) the spear that killed the helmsman
b) money
c) the book he found earlier in the abandoned cabin
d) one of the Winchester rifles that the pilgrims brought
8. The heads that Marlow finds attached to the stakes at the Inner Station are the heads of who?
a) rebels
b) pilgrims
c) agents of the Company
d) random women
9. True or false: the Russian is forced to tell Marlow that Mr. Kurtz planned the attack on the steamboat against his will?
10. What does Marlow say that ultimately convinces the Russian to leave the Inner Station?
a) that he will shoot him
b) that the manager wishes to hang him
c) that the natives are plotting to kill him
d) that there is a nearby station he should go explore
11. As Marlow and the crew leave the Inner Station, who is left on the beach after he blows the steam whistle?
a) a group of cannibals
b) a group of tribal witch-men
c) the woman he saw earlier on the shore
d) no one
12. True or false: Marlow still remains loyal to Mr. Kurtz even after his death?
C) Brick-maker
False: he is not the cousin, but the uncle.
D) building a railway
B) the bottom was torn apart by rocks
True
A) the steam whistle scared them off
C) the book he found earlier in the abandoned cabin
A) rebels
False: he told Marlow this willingly.
B) that the manager wishes to hang him
C) the woman he saw earlier on the shore
True