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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the ice do to frighten the sailors?
(a) Fall in huge sheets into the water.
(b) Hiss and sizzle.
(c) Make loud, cracking noises.
(d) Nothing at all.

2. Why do his shipmates cry out against the Mariner?
(a) For fighting with them.
(b) For killing the Albatross.
(c) For leading the Ship the wrong way.
(d) For complaining about the cold.

3. With what is the Mariner refreshed?
(a) Food.
(b) Wine.
(c) Rain.
(d) Angelic company.

4. What is the main theme of the poem?
(a) The problem of Greed.
(b) The pursuit of Freedom.
(c) The adventures of Sea-Travel.
(d) The study of Natures.

5. Which form of Nature does this poem focus on?
(a) The visible.
(b) The invisible.
(c) The spiritual.
(d) The human.

6. What do the boards of the Ship do?
(a) Creak.
(b) Shrink.
(c) Snap.
(d) Splinter.

7. Who/what hides in the mist?
(a) The Mariner's nephew.
(b) The Mariner.
(c) The Spirit.
(d) The Sun.

8. What does Thomas Burnet say happens to the mind that does not contemplate the invisible Nature?
(a) It keeps a sense of perspective.
(b) It dwindles and thinks only petty thoughts.
(c) It attains knowledge of the visible natures.
(d) It makes man vigilant for truth.

9. What does the phrase, "Day after day, day after day" suggest?
(a) The repetitiveness of being becalmed.
(b) The constant flow of the water past the Ship.
(c) The persistence of the crew in getting home.
(d) The remorse of the Mariner for killing the Albatross.

10. How does the crew think of the Albatross?
(a) As a navigator.
(b) As a messenger from the gods.
(c) As a good omen.
(d) As a bad omen.

11. Epigraph means:
(a) A brief letter written by the author of a poem about his work.
(b) A quote or citation placed at the beginning of a literary work in order to set a theme for the whole.
(c) A rhyming quatrain with which a poem begins or ends.
(d) A collection of lines from the poem, placed at its beginning to foreshadow themes to come.

12. How many parts are there in the poem?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Nine.
(d) Seven.

13. Who goes before the bride into the Wedding hall?
(a) Horses.
(b) Minstrels.
(c) Her parents.
(d) The Guest.

14. How many of the men does the Mariner stop?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Seven.

15. What distracts the Guest?
(a) His wife.
(b) An Albatross.
(c) Bridal Music.
(d) The Mariner's beard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What comes upon the Ship when it reaches the Line?

2. What kinds of worlds are implied in the Epigraph?

3. What do the sailors initially believe the Albatross had favorably done for them?

4. As what colors does the water appear to burn?

5. No _______ comes to the crew's ________.

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