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

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

3. Which Ocean is the ship described as entering?
(a) The Arctic Ocean.
(b) The Indian Ocean.
(c) The Pacific Ocean.
(d) The Atlantic Ocean.

4. What other Nature is studied in the poem?
(a) Demonic.
(b) Animal.
(c) Human.
(d) Inanimate.

5. In what year is the Epigraph added to the poem?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1692.
(c) 1767.
(d) 1817.

Short Answer Questions

1. Thomas Burnet says man must be vigilant of:

2. What does Thomas Burnet say we must keep a sense of?

3. How does the Guest listen to the Mariner?

4. Where does the Guest sit?

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

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