The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 117 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 purpose of the notes?

2. How many men does the Mariner meet?

3. In what year is the Epigraph added to the poem?

4. What does the Mariner ask the Hermit to do?

5. Why does Thomas Burnet say people study invisible Nature?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is significant about the Albatross being mentioned explicitly as a bird of good omen in the notes, and not in the Mariner's relation of the tale?

2. For what reasons are there differences between the text of the poem and the text of the notes, such as Life-in-Death only being referenced as the "Spectre-Woman" in the notes?

3. Why are the notes important to the poem?

4. Describe Thomas Burnet's overall attitude towards the invisible Nature.

5. What is meant, in the third part, by, "at a dear ransom he freeth his speech from the bonds of thirst"? Why is this important?

6. Why does the Albatross hang around the neck of the Mariner?

7. Why are the Sun and Storm-blast personified and how is their personification signified?

8. Who is responsible for the becalming of the Ship, and how is this known?

9. Why do you think there is such a strong emphasis placed on the Mariner's eye in Part I?

10. What is significant about the lengthy explanation of invisible Spirits towards the end of Part II?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the mounting of despair in the first half of the poem. What sort of events prompt feelings of despair? What influence upon despair is had by the supernatural? How much of the despair experience is strictly natural? Be sure to mention the inability to speak, and particularly to pray.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the poem's presentation of contrition, redemption, and penance. Explain how each follows upon the other in the Mariner's story; how does he achieve each? How do these three things relate to human nature, guilt?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the literal and allegorical significance of the Albatross within the story. Include a well-formed explication of what allegory is before demonstrating how the Albatross fulfills this explanation. Feel free to use external sources to fully show how the Albatross is an example of an allegorical object. Also be sure to relate its importance to the events of the poem.

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