Nostromo Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Part 1, Chapter 1

1. What is the name of the town?

2. What is the name of what the author calls the insignificant cape?

3. What is the name of the country in which the story takes place?

4. Who lives in a lonely hut in the little bay?

5. What does Nostromo mean in Italian?

6. For what are the Americans looking?

7. What do the Americans have to cut through to get to the mine?

8. What do the Americans do to confirm their location?

9. What is the name of the novel's main character?

10. What are the names of the small islands?

11. Who lives on these islands?