Question 6 of 19Read the following excerpt from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness:Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast. There wasn't even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush. It appears the French had one of their wars going on thereabouts. . . . In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech—and nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding.Which idea about colonialism is most clearly expressed in this excerpt?A.War, which is common in the colonies, is horrible and upsetting.B.The actions of the colonists are foolish and ineffective.C.Larger weapons are necessary in order to conquer continents.D.The colonists cruelly harm human beings for no reason.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Analyse the following passage from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad using three postcolonial concepts.  And between whiles I had to look after the savage who was fireman. He was an improved specimen; he could fire up a vertical boiler. He was there below me and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a feather hat walking on his hind legs. A few months of training had done for that really fine chap. He squinted at the steam-gauge and at the water-gauge with an evident effort of intrepidity -- and he had filed his teeth too, the poor devil, and the wool of his pate shaved into queer patterns, and three ornamental scars on each of his cheeks. He ought to have been clapping his hands and stamping his feet on the bank, instead of which he was hard at work, a thrall to strange witchcraft, full of improving knowledge.

Analyse the following passage from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad using three postcolonial concepts.

An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was thick, warm, heavy, sluggish. —Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Zeugma Rhetorical Question Asyndeton Irony

Question 13 of 19Read the following passage from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness:Only here the dwellings were gone, too. Still I passed through several abandoned villages. There's something pathetically childish in the ruins of grass walls.Which words most clearly show an imperialist attitude?A.pathetically childishB.abandoned villagesC.ruins of grass wallsD.dwellings were goneSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Question 4 of 10What is one critique of imperialism that Joseph Conrad makes in Heart of Darkness?A.Many colonists die in Africa.B.Imperialism is a burden on white society.C.The Africans do not want the colonists to be there.D.The colonists are cruel to the Africans.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS