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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Lines 1-82.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Thomas Burnet think people ought to do about these natures?
(a) Destroy them.
(b) Not study them.
(c) Ignore them.
(d) Study them.

2. By what instrument is the Guest distracted?
(a) A bassoon.
(b) An oboe.
(c) A harpsichord.
(d) A flute.

3. What question does Thomas Burnet ask about these natures?
(a) How does man distinguish between the visible and invisible?
(b) Where do the Natures reside?
(c) Who explains the invisible Nature to us?
(d) Who explains the visible Nature?

4. When the ship reaches the Line, what is over the mast at noon?
(a) A sail.
(b) The Albatross.
(c) The Lighthouse.
(d) The Sun.

5. Who is the original author of the poem's Epigraph?
(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(b) Seamus Heaney.
(c) William Butler Yeats.
(d) Thomas Burnet.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do the Mariner's shipmates "drop down dead"?

2. What do the sailors see in the polar region?

3. What is the "Line"?

4. What does the Mariner see in the moonlight?

5. What adjective describes the eye of the Mariner?

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