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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. Who is the author of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"?
(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(b) William Wordsworth.
(c) John Donne.
(d) Gerard Manley Hopkins.

2. How does the Albatross die?
(a) The Mariner shoots it with his crossbow.
(b) The Mariner's nephew shoots it with a crossbow.
(c) The Albatross is hit by falling ice and drowns in the sea.
(d) The crew forgets to feed the Albatross and it freezes to death.

3. When do the Mariner's shipmates "drop down dead"?
(a) When the scary ship leaves.
(b) At the setting of the sun.
(c) At the rising of the moon.
(d) At the rising of the sun.

4. What do the sailors see in the polar region?
(a) Only ice.
(b) Sea creatures.
(c) Primitive men.
(d) Strange animals.

5. What are the notes?
(a) A shorter summation of the poem.
(b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge's notes to himself about the poem.
(c) Thomas Burnet's footnotes.
(d) The contents of the Mariner's journal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Guest initially think of the Mariner?

2. What is the overall tone of the Epigraph?

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

4. Who has the first speaking line?

5. Who is the original author of the poem's Epigraph?

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