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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the tyrant who has been overthrown?

2. For what are the Americans looking?

3. Who does Mrs. Gould visit in this chapter?

4. What is the name of Charles Gould's silver mine?

5. What is Joseph Mitchell's rank?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does the party in Chapter 5, Part 2, reflect the problems that resulted in the civil war?

2. In what way does Chapter 7, Part 1, indicate that the mine is already creating a gulf between the Goulds?

3. What is the chairman trying to do to build his railway?

4. What is Nostromo's relationship with the aristocracy?

5. In what way does this chapter show the power of Charles Gould and his silver mine?

6. Why is Ribiera important to the industrialists?

7. What is Giorgio's idea of revolution?

8. In what way do Decoud's plans change?

9. How do the Goulds settle into Sulaco?

10. What is the Costaguanian idea of revolution?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Nostromo is written in the third person. Why do you think Conrad chose to write the story in the third person? How do you think the meaning of the story would have changed if it were written in the first person?

Essay Topic 2

Nostromo is a famous book which has greatly influenced modern literature. Choose a book written after Nostromo that you think was influenced by the novel and discuss there similarities in terms of

a) plot

b) character

c) themes.

Essay Topic 3

The novel is set in South America.

1) What meaning does South America bring to the novel? What would you automatically presume about a novel that was set in South America?

2) How different do you think today's South America is to the South America in the novel? How do you think the novel's meaning would change if it were set in today's South America?

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