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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Lines 83-142.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the sailors being becalmed?
(a) As punishment for entering the region of mist and snow.
(b) As punishment for killing the Albatross.
(c) As punishment for being superstitious.
(d) As punishment for blaming the Mariner.

2. What initially changes the sailors' minds about the Albatross, to think negatively of it, after it dies?
(a) The ship runs into more ice.
(b) The fog clears after the Mariner shoots it.
(c) The wind changes directions.
(d) The rains come.

3. What does the Guest initially think of the Mariner?
(a) The Guest thinks the Mariner is drunk.
(b) The Guest admires the Mariner.
(c) The Guest is afraid of the Mariner.
(d) The Guest thinks the Mariner is crazy.

4. What does the Epigraph help the reader to see in the poem?
(a) The value of foresight.
(b) The impossibility of truth.
(c) The importance of invisible Nature.
(d) The necessity of mercy.

5. 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 collection of lines from the poem, placed at its beginning to foreshadow themes to come.
(d) A rhyming quatrain with which a poem begins or ends.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men does the Mariner meet?

2. In what direction does the ship go after the Albatross arrives?

3. What does the Guest command the Mariner to do?

4. How long does the good weather last?

5. Who/what arises on the left of the Ship, from the sea?

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