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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What two Natures does Thomas Burnet say there are?
(a) Animal and human.
(b) Visible and invisible.
(c) Ancient and young.
(d) Human and spiritual.

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

5. No _______ comes to the crew's ________.
(a) Bird, hollo.
(b) Rest, minds.
(c) Answer, prayers.
(d) Joy, hearts.

6. From what work of Thomas Burnet's does the Epigraph derive?
(a) Divinia Commedia.
(b) The Consolation of Philosophy.
(c) Archaeologiae Philosophicae.
(d) De Anima.

7. Where are the men the Mariner meets going?
(a) To their graves.
(b) To a wedding.
(c) To a council meeting.
(d) To a boat.

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

9. What does the Hermit instruct the Mariner to teach others?
(a) To love and reverence all things made by God.
(b) To fight the evil spirits who terrorize man throughout the world.
(c) To live a solitary life of peace.
(d) To never kill animals.

10. How does the Ship's journey begin?
(a) Silently.
(b) Dangerously.
(c) Gloriously.
(d) Gloomily.

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

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

13. Where does the Guest sit?
(a) On the ground.
(b) On a bench.
(c) In a chair.
(d) On a stone.

14. Who has the first speaking line?
(a) The Ancient Mariner.
(b) The Pilot.
(c) The Wedding-Guest.
(d) Thomas Burnet.

15. Which of these words best describes the crew?
(a) Despairing.
(b) Superstitious.
(c) Cunning.
(d) Loyal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the Ship after the fog lifts?

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

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

4. How are the bodies of the crew re-animated?

5. How does the crew think of the Albatross?

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