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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. What are seen dancing at night?
(a) Death-fires.
(b) Spirits.
(c) Sea creatures.
(d) The Mariners.

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

3. Epigraph means:
(a) A quote or citation placed at the beginning of a literary work in order to set a theme for the whole.
(b) A rhyming quatrain with which a poem begins or ends.
(c) A brief letter written by the author of a poem about his work.
(d) A collection of lines from the poem, placed at its beginning to foreshadow themes to come.

4. What is the "Line"?
(a) A trading port.
(b) The edge of the world.
(c) The equator.
(d) North America.

5. Who/what arises on the left of the Ship, from the sea?
(a) The Sun.
(b) The Mariner.
(c) The Albatross.
(d) The Polar Spirit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the overall tone of the Epigraph?

2. How many parts are there in the poem?

3. How does the crew think of the Albatross?

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

5. Why does the Albatross come to the ship?

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