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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who/what arises on the left of the Ship, from the sea?
(a) The Mariner.
(b) The Albatross.
(c) The Sun.
(d) The Polar Spirit.

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

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

6. What stops the Guest?
(a) The Mariner's eye.
(b) A large stone.
(c) Armed guards.
(d) A locked gate.

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

8. How many men does the Mariner meet?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Twelve.
(d) One.

9. What is the "Line"?
(a) A trading port.
(b) North America.
(c) The edge of the world.
(d) The equator.

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

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

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

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

14. How many of the men does the Mariner stop?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Seven.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From where is the Ship followed?

2. What does Thomas Burnet think people ought to do about these natures?

3. In what year is the Epigraph added to the poem?

4. How does the Albatross die?

5. After describing the arrival of the Albatross and its interaction with the crew, the Mariner begins to look intensely uncomfortable. Why?

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