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

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

3. Why does Thomas Burnet say people study invisible Nature?
(a) To live happily.
(b) To find peace.
(c) To know the truth.
(d) To broaden their minds.

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

5. What does Thomas Burnet say we must keep a sense of?
(a) Better worlds.
(b) Perspective.
(c) Natures.
(d) Proportion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the ice do to frighten the sailors?

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

3. How long does the good weather last?

4. What is the relationship between the Guest and the Bridegroom?

5. How does Thomas Burnet think the Natures are studied?

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