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How old was writer Joseph Conrad when he learned English?
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155 times |
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88 times (29.1%) |
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difficult |
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67 times (22.2%) |
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147 times (48.7%) |
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Which one of Joseph Conrad's book inspired the movie Sabotage?
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1770 times |
| Correct: |
1035 times (38.7%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
| Incorrect: |
735 times (27.5%) |
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903 times (33.8%) |
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Which of these books by Joseph Conrad was written first?
   
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| Answered: |
369 times |
| Correct: |
91 times (14.5%) |
| Difficulty: |
very difficult |
| Incorrect: |
278 times (44.4%) |
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257 times (41.1%) |
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Who is the protagonist of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" sent to retrieve?
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| Answered: |
4324 times |
| Correct: |
2840 times (48.0%) |
| Difficulty: |
medium |
| Incorrect: |
1484 times (25.1%) |
| Skipped: |
1594 times (26.9%) |
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What novel by Joseph Conrad gave its name to the spaceship in Ridley Scott's 1979 film "Alien"?
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| Answered: |
452 times |
| Correct: |
272 times (46.6%) |
| Difficulty: |
medium |
| Incorrect: |
180 times (30.8%) |
| Skipped: |
132 times (22.6%) |
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Which character from "Heart of Darkness" also appears in a significant way in "Lord Jim"?
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| Answered: |
2371 times |
| Correct: |
1146 times (33.5%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
| Incorrect: |
1225 times (35.9%) |
| Skipped: |
1046 times (30.6%) |
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Where is the book "Under Western Eyes" by Joseph Conrad set?
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| Answered: |
92 times |
| Correct: |
46 times (26.4%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
| Incorrect: |
46 times (26.4%) |
| Skipped: |
82 times (47.1%) |
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Whose first novel was called The Voyage Out?
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| Answered: |
137 times |
| Correct: |
71 times (32.3%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
| Incorrect: |
66 times (30.0%) |
| Skipped: |
83 times (37.7%) |
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The author of the novella Heart of Darkness also wrote which of the following novels?
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| Answered: |
814 times |
| Correct: |
545 times (59.1%) |
| Difficulty: |
medium |
| Incorrect: |
269 times (29.2%) |
| Skipped: |
108 times (11.7%) |
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What was Joseph Conrad's first language?
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| Answered: |
27713 times |
| Correct: |
15066 times (41.0%) |
| Difficulty: |
medium |
| Incorrect: |
12647 times (34.4%) |
| Skipped: |
9065 times (24.6%) |
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What is the setting of most of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness?
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| Answered: |
1020 times |
| Correct: |
949 times (81.9%) |
| Difficulty: |
easy |
| Incorrect: |
71 times (6.1%) |
| Skipped: |
139 times (12.0%) |
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What famous novel provided the basic story line for Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam war film epic, Apocalypse Now?
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44930 times |
| Correct: |
34025 times (59.1%) |
| Difficulty: |
medium |
| Incorrect: |
10905 times (18.9%) |
| Skipped: |
12628 times (21.9%) |
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In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, what are Kurtz’s last words?
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1065 times |
| Correct: |
938 times (71.7%) |
| Difficulty: |
easy |
| Incorrect: |
127 times (9.7%) |
| Skipped: |
243 times (18.6%) |
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Who wrote 1984?
  
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1768 times |
| Correct: |
1737 times (97.3%) |
| Difficulty: |
very easy |
| Incorrect: |
31 times (1.7%) |
| Skipped: |
18 times (1.0%) |
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In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, what does Marlow tell Kurtz’s girlfriend were his last words?
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| Answered: |
957 times |
| Correct: |
742 times (58.0%) |
| Difficulty: |
medium |
| Incorrect: |
215 times (16.8%) |
| Skipped: |
323 times (25.2%) |
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Who penned the oft-quoted phrase "The horror!"?
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583 times |
| Correct: |
320 times (42.8%) |
| Difficulty: |
medium |
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263 times (35.2%) |
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165 times (22.1%) |
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In Heart of Darkness, what does Marlow say “makes him miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do”?
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952 times |
| Correct: |
527 times (40.1%) |
| Difficulty: |
medium |
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425 times (32.4%) |
| Skipped: |
361 times (27.5%) |
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The way in which Heart of Darkness is narrated is similar in style to ...?
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1916 times |
| Correct: |
914 times (33.4%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
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1002 times (36.6%) |
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820 times (30.0%) |
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Joseph Conrad was most proficient in which three languages?
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| Answered: |
343 times |
| Correct: |
168 times (26.9%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
| Incorrect: |
175 times (28.0%) |
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281 times (45.0%) |
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In Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness, what is/are required to fix Marlow's steamboat?
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| Answered: |
970 times |
| Correct: |
544 times (33.7%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
| Incorrect: |
426 times (26.4%) |
| Skipped: |
643 times (39.9%) |
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What is the name of the ship moored in the Thames estuary at the beginning of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness?
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| Answered: |
815 times |
| Correct: |
381 times (27.8%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
| Incorrect: |
434 times (31.7%) |
| Skipped: |
554 times (40.5%) |
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In Heart of Darkness, who is the chief of the Inner Station?
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| Answered: |
510 times |
| Correct: |
320 times (41.9%) |
| Difficulty: |
medium |
| Incorrect: |
190 times (24.9%) |
| Skipped: |
254 times (33.2%) |
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The protagonist of Conrad's Heart of Darkness tells his story from where?
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| Answered: |
526 times |
| Correct: |
312 times (39.6%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
| Incorrect: |
214 times (27.2%) |
| Skipped: |
262 times (33.2%) |
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Joseph Conrad was of which following descent?
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| Answered: |
146 times |
| Correct: |
117 times (69.2%) |
| Difficulty: |
medium |
| Incorrect: |
29 times (17.2%) |
| Skipped: |
23 times (13.6%) |
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In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, why did Marlow originally intend to sail up the Congo river?
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| Answered: |
253 times |
| Correct: |
19 times (6.1%) |
| Difficulty: |
really really difficult |
| Incorrect: |
234 times (75.0%) |
| Skipped: |
59 times (18.9%) |
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Which of the following is impressed -- or even awed -- by Kurtz, claiming "This man has enlarged my mind"?
(In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness)
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| Answered: |
174 times |
| Correct: |
43 times (14.0%) |
| Difficulty: |
very difficult |
| Incorrect: |
131 times (42.5%) |
| Skipped: |
134 times (43.5%) |
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Which of the following do the Captain and Leggett have in common in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer?
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| Answered: |
77 times |
| Correct: |
49 times (28.5%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
| Incorrect: |
28 times (16.3%) |
| Skipped: |
95 times (55.2%) |
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Why is the Captain (the protagonist) nervous at the very beginning of Conrad's The Secret Sharer?
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| Answered: |
74 times |
| Correct: |
37 times (23.9%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
| Incorrect: |
37 times (23.9%) |
| Skipped: |
81 times (52.3%) |
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What river does Marlow travel in "Heart of Darkness"?
Joseph Conrad
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| Answered: |
992 times |
| Correct: |
897 times (69.5%) |
| Difficulty: |
medium |
| Incorrect: |
95 times (7.4%) |
| Skipped: |
299 times (23.2%) |
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Shortly before his death a great 20th-century novelist read Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor (calling it "the most beautiful story in the world") and exclaimed "O could I have written that!" Who is the novelist in question?
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| Answered: |
108 times |
| Correct: |
40 times (25.6%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
| Incorrect: |
68 times (43.6%) |
| Skipped: |
48 times (30.8%) |
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