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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Thomas Burnet says man must be vigilant of:
(a) Proportion.
(b) Night.
(c) Truth.
(d) Life.

2. What is the name of the learned Jew?
(a) Michael Psellus.
(b) Tacitus.
(c) Marcus Aurelius.
(d) Josephus.

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

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

5. How long does the good weather last?
(a) There is no good weather.
(b) Until the Ship reaches the South Pole.
(c) Until Thursday.
(d) Until the ship reaches the Line.

6. What initially changes the sailors' minds about the Albatross, to think negatively of it, after it dies?
(a) The ship runs into more ice.
(b) The rains come.
(c) The fog clears after the Mariner shoots it.
(d) The wind changes directions.

7. 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.

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

9. How does the Albatross die?
(a) The Mariner shoots it with his crossbow.
(b) The Mariner's nephew shoots it with a crossbow.
(c) The crew forgets to feed the Albatross and it freezes to death.
(d) The Albatross is hit by falling ice and drowns in the sea.

10. On what side of the ship does the Sun now set?
(a) The right.
(b) The front.
(c) The left.
(d) The back.

11. How is the area into which the Ship first enters, after passing the Line, described?
(a) Cold, icy.
(b) Calm, humid.
(c) Chilly, windy.
(d) Hot, tropical.

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

13. Who is the author of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"?
(a) Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(b) William Wordsworth.
(c) John Donne.
(d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

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

15. When do the Mariner's shipmates "drop down dead"?
(a) At the setting of the sun.
(b) At the rising of the moon.
(c) When the scary ship leaves.
(d) At the rising of the sun.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thomas Burnet say happens to the mind that does not contemplate the invisible Nature?

2. What does the Guest command the Mariner to do?

3. What do the sailors see in the polar region?

4. Where is the Ship after the fog lifts?

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

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