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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Lines 224-291.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the ice do to frighten the sailors?
(a) Nothing at all.
(b) Fall in huge sheets into the water.
(c) Hiss and sizzle.
(d) Make loud, cracking noises.

4. What do the sailors initially believe the Albatross had favorably done for them?
(a) Make it warm.
(b) Make it rain.
(c) Make the wind blow.
(d) Made the fog disappear.

5. Who is the original author of the poem's Epigraph?
(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(b) Seamus Heaney.
(c) William Butler Yeats.
(d) Thomas Burnet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What distracts the Guest?

2. How many passengers are on the ship that arrives?

3. Which word does the Mariner NOT use to describe the object he spots at the Line?

4. Who takes pity on the Mariner after he watches the objects in the moonlight?

5. In what direction does the ship initially sail?

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