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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long is the poem's Epigraph?
(a) A paragraph.
(b) Two pages.
(c) Six pages.
(d) Three paragraphs.

2. Who wins the ancient Mariner?
(a) The Hermit.
(b) Death.
(c) Life-in-Death.
(d) The Pilot.

3. How does Thomas Burnet think the Natures are studied?
(a) Subjectively.
(b) Quickly.
(c) Objectively.
(d) They should not be studied.

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

5. Who/what hides in the mist?
(a) The Mariner.
(b) The Mariner's nephew.
(c) The Spirit.
(d) The Sun.

6. Who, are some sailors assured in their dreams, follows the Ship?
(a) The ghost of the Albatross.
(b) Two evil spirits.
(c) The Polar Spirit.
(d) Giant sea creatures.

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

8. What hangs around the Mariner's neck?
(a) A noose.
(b) A medallion.
(c) The dead Albatross.
(d) A metal cross.

9. 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 impossibility of truth.
(d) The necessity of mercy.

10. After describing the arrival of the Albatross and its interaction with the crew, the Mariner begins to look intensely uncomfortable. Why?
(a) He is sad that his nephew kills the Albatross.
(b) He is remembering how the Albatross freezes to death.
(c) He is thinking about how he kills the Albatross.
(d) He is thinking about how the Albatross drowns in the sea.

11. How are the bodies of the crew re-animated?
(a) By angelic spirits.
(b) By Life-in-Death.
(c) By witchcraft.
(d) By demonic spirits.

12. What color is the ice?
(a) Silver.
(b) Blue.
(c) White.
(d) Green.

13. Why does the Albatross come to the ship?
(a) For food and play.
(b) To sleep on the mast.
(c) To frighten the crew.
(d) To steal the crew's food.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Ocean is the ship described as entering?

2. What comes upon the Ship when it reaches the Line?

3. How does the Guest listen to the Mariner?

4. As what colors does the water appear to burn?

5. How is the area into which the Ship first enters, after passing the Line, described?

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