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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who goes before the bride into the Wedding hall?
(a) Minstrels.
(b) Horses.
(c) The Guest.
(d) Her parents.

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

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

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

6. What does the Mariner ask the Hermit to do?
(a) To bring him home.
(b) To help him bury his shipmates.
(c) To absolve him of his sins.
(d) To repair his boat.

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

8. Why are the sailors being becalmed?
(a) As punishment for killing the Albatross.
(b) As punishment for being superstitious.
(c) As punishment for blaming the Mariner.
(d) As punishment for entering the region of mist and snow.

9. What other Nature is studied in the poem?
(a) Demonic.
(b) Human.
(c) Inanimate.
(d) Animal.

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

11. How does the crew think of the Albatross?
(a) As a good omen.
(b) As a messenger from the gods.
(c) As a bad omen.
(d) As a navigator.

12. What does Thomas Burnet think people ought to do about these natures?
(a) Not study them.
(b) Destroy them.
(c) Study them.
(d) Ignore them.

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

14. After reaching the Line, in what direction does the Ship go?
(a) South.
(b) West.
(c) South-West.
(d) East.

15. What is the purpose of the notes?
(a) Historical information about seafaring in the 18th century.
(b) Clarification of the poem's meaning.
(c) To direct the reader's attention to the poem's meter.
(d) To add mystery to the poem.

Short Answer Questions

1. What distracts the Guest?

2. How does the Guest listen to the Mariner?

3. The water is compared to what mystical substance?

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

5. Where does the Guest sit?

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