Nostromo | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Part 1, Chapter 1

1. What is the name of the town?

Sulaco

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

Punta Mala

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

Costaguana

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

A negro fisherman

5. What does Nostromo mean in Italian?

Our Man

6. For what are the Americans looking?

A silver mine

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

Jungle

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

Send up smoke

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

Nostromo

10. What are the names of the small islands?

The Isabels

11. Who lives on these islands?

No one

12. Which harbor are the Isabels near?

Sulaco

Part 1, Chapter 2

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