<p> Heart of Darkness: Questions, Book 2 Answer the following numbered questions on your own. </p><p>1. How does the station manager survive? How does he plan to "beat" Kurtz? 2. Who was the crew of the steamboat? How were they more civilized than the "pilgrims" What, then, is the definition of "civilized." 3. What do the drums symbolize? What does the forest seem to be doing? 4. What does the phrase "The earth seemed unearthly" mean? How about "that was the worst of us, the suspicion that they weren’t inhuman"? 5. What book do they discover? What is admirable about the book? 6. When they wake up, eight miles from the station, what has happened? What color is the fog? Why do you suppose that is? 7. Why does Marlow say the natives will not attack?</p><p>8. Why does Conrad kill the sounding man first? What has the river come to symbolize? In that case, why did the native helmsman die as well, and not the fireman? How does the helmsman die? How does Marlow drive the natives away? 9. What did he want to have from Kurtz? Where else has the author mentioned just this point? 10. What is Kurtz’s head like? How does Conrad make that significant? 11. What was Kurtz’s paper about? What is odd about it? What does he compare the scribble with at the end? Where else have you seen this? 12. What role does the harlequin have? Heart of Darkness; Book 2; Quotes</p><p>Identify the following quotes by page number and who said them. </p><p>1. "Ah, my boy...trust to this–I say, trust to this."</p><p>2. "Wood for you. Hurry up. Approach cautiously.’</p><p>3. "I authorize you to take all the risks."</p><p>4. "I laid the ghost of his gifts at last with a lie."</p><p>5. "You don’t talk with that man–you listen."</p><p>6. "This man has enlarged my mind."</p>