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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the sailors see in the polar region?
(a) Primitive men.
(b) Strange animals.
(c) Only ice.
(d) Sea creatures.

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

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

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

5. What is the overall tone of the Epigraph?
(a) Optimistic.
(b) Negative.
(c) Confused.
(d) Speculative.

6. Which Ocean is the ship described as entering?
(a) The Pacific Ocean.
(b) The Atlantic Ocean.
(c) The Arctic Ocean.
(d) The Indian Ocean.

7. Why does Thomas Burnet say people study invisible Nature?
(a) To find peace.
(b) To live happily.
(c) To broaden their minds.
(d) To know the truth.

8. What comes upon the Ship when it reaches the Line?
(a) Total calm.
(b) The Sickness.
(c) The Storm-blast.
(d) Snow.

9. What hangs around the Mariner's neck?
(a) A medallion.
(b) A noose.
(c) The dead Albatross.
(d) Death's dice cup.

10. When the ship reaches the Line, what is over the mast at noon?
(a) The Albatross.
(b) The Lighthouse.
(c) A sail.
(d) The Sun.

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

12. How many parts are there in the poem?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Nine.
(d) Seven.

13. What is the main theme of the poem?
(a) The adventures of Sea-Travel.
(b) The study of Natures.
(c) The problem of Greed.
(d) The pursuit of Freedom.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does Thomas Burnet ask about these natures?

2. What are the notes?

3. What does the phrase, "Day after day, day after day" suggest?

4. Slimy things are seen crawling with legs upon the slimy what?

5. What comes through the snow-fog and is joyfully received?

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