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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Thomas Burnet say we must keep a sense of?
(a) Natures.
(b) Proportion.
(c) Better worlds.
(d) Perspective.

4. What do the boards of the Ship do?
(a) Shrink.
(b) Splinter.
(c) Snap.
(d) Creak.

5. 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.

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

7. What does the Guest command the Mariner to do?
(a) Join the wedding procession.
(b) Tell his story.
(c) Prepare the Ship.
(d) Let him go.

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

9. 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 the Albatross drowns in the sea.
(d) He is thinking about how he kills the Albatross.

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

11. What does the approaching ship resemble?
(a) A wedding wreath.
(b) Sea creatures.
(c) An Albatross.
(d) A skeleton.

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

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

14. Why do his shipmates cry out against the Mariner?
(a) For fighting with them.
(b) For leading the Ship the wrong way.
(c) For killing the Albatross.
(d) For complaining about the cold.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After the removal of the curse, what does the Mariner behold?

2. What is the name of the learned Jew?

3. From what work of Thomas Burnet's does the Epigraph derive?

4. Who goes before the bride into the Wedding hall?

5. By what instrument is the Guest distracted?

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