The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the sailors see in the polar region?
(a) Sea creatures.
(b) Strange animals.
(c) Primitive men.
(d) Only ice.

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

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

4. What comes through the snow-fog and is joyfully received?
(a) An Albatross.
(b) The Polar Spirit.
(c) The Guest.
(d) The Pilot.

5. After the removal of the curse, what does the Mariner behold?
(a) The Albatross.
(b) A temple.
(c) His native land.
(d) Creatures of the great calm.

6. What question does Thomas Burnet ask about these natures?
(a) Who explains the visible Nature?
(b) Who explains the invisible Nature to us?
(c) Where do the Natures reside?
(d) How does man distinguish between the visible and invisible?

7. In what direction does the ship initially sail?
(a) Southward.
(b) Eastward.
(c) Westward.
(d) Northward.

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

9. What comes upon the Ship when it reaches the Line?
(a) The Sickness.
(b) Total calm.
(c) Snow.
(d) The Storm-blast.

10. How high is the ice in the polar region?
(a) Below the water.
(b) Mast high.
(c) Higher than can be seen.
(d) Bow high.

11. What hangs around the Mariner's neck?
(a) A medallion.
(b) The dead Albatross.
(c) A noose.
(d) Death's dice cup.

12. Slimy things are seen crawling with legs upon the slimy what?
(a) Mariners.
(b) Sea.
(c) Reef.
(d) Ship.

13. Who alters the text of the poem's Epigraph?
(a) Derek Roper.
(b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(c) Thomas Burnet.
(d) William Wordsworth.

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

15. What does Thomas Burnet say happens to the mind that does not contemplate the invisible Nature?
(a) It makes man vigilant for truth.
(b) It dwindles and thinks only petty thoughts.
(c) It attains knowledge of the visible natures.
(d) It keeps a sense of perspective.

Short Answer Questions

1. Thomas Burnet says man must be vigilant of:

2. How does the Ship's journey begin?

3. After reaching the Line, in what direction does the Ship go?

4. What hangs around the Mariner's neck?

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

(see the answer keys)

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