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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 Sulaco superintendent?

2. What does Viola think is all the Italian workers and Nostromo care about?

3. Why are more people coming to the town?

4. Who does Gould have to send a decree to to build villages near the mine?

5. For whom does Viola's hotel cater?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does Decoud's presence cause problems for the long term residents in Part 2, Chapter 4?

2. Why is Giorgio disappointed with the other Italians in the area?

3. Why does Decoud want to make Sulaco independent?

4. What happens to the Americans that go in search of the silver mine?

5. Why does Mrs. Gould show a concern for her husband and his mine in Chapter 6, Part 2?

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

7. What do you think the silver mine represents?

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

9. Why is Ribiera important to the industrialists?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the main themes of the story. Why do you think these themes are so important to the story? How does Conrad use character and setting to express these themes?

Essay Topic 2

Look at the locations Conrad uses in the novel.

1) What effect does the location Conrad uses have on the tone of the book?

2) Pick one location and think in what way this location affects the actions of the characters?

Essay Topic 3

Look at the general history of South America.

1) What was their original language? What was there culture? What relationship did South American countries have with each other?

2) How much did Europeans change South America? How much of their original culture do you think South America has lost? Have they benefited from being colonized?

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