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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Mariner's heart is as:
(a) Empty as an abyss.
(b) Cold as ice.
(c) Dry as dust.
(d) Heavy as a stone.

2. What does the Mariner watch in the moonlight?
(a) The corpses of the crew.
(b) Death-fires.
(c) Death and Life-in-Death.
(d) Water-snakes.

3. When the Mariner awakes after the Heavenly sleep, what does he "almost" think happens?
(a) He dies in his sleep.
(b) The Ship goes back to the land of mist and snow.
(c) The crew is playing a trick on him.
(d) He is dreaming the whole time.

4. How many men are there in the crew?
(a) Forty.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Thirty-seven.
(d) Two-hundred.

5. Who is the Mariner eager to see on the rescue boat?
(a) The Hermit.
(b) The Pilot.
(c) His wife.
(d) The Pilot's Boy.

6. Who sends the "gentle sleep from Heaven"?
(a) Mary.
(b) The Albatross.
(c) The gods.
(d) Angels.

7. Who lies dead on the Ship at the beginning of Part IV?
(a) The crew.
(b) The Albatross.
(c) The Mariner.
(d) The sea creatures.

8. What happens when the Mariner regains consciousness?
(a) The Ship slows down.
(b) The Ship stops.
(c) The Ship speeds up.
(d) The spirits attacks him.

9. Who does the Mariner find himself working beside, "knee to knee"?
(a) The helmsman.
(b) His brother.
(c) The captain.
(d) His nephew.

10. Who is guiding, not steering, the Ship while it is being crewed by the dead men?
(a) The Polar Spirit.
(b) The helmsman.
(c) The Mariner.
(d) Death.

11. What comes between the Mariner's Ship and the sun?
(a) Mist.
(b) A sea monster.
(c) The Polar Spirit.
(d) The newly arrived ship.

12. How does the crew curse the Mariner?
(a) In Latin.
(b) With loud exclamations.
(c) By shaking their fists.
(d) With their eyes.

13. What "thousand thousand" things live on?
(a) Angry spirits.
(b) The crew.
(c) Slimy things.
(d) Birds.

14. What sort of weather is occurring when the Ship begins to move?
(a) Snowing.
(b) Calm.
(c) Gently raining.
(d) Storming.

15. What adjective does the Mariner use to describe the sea and the Ship?
(a) Decaying.
(b) Bleak.
(c) Rotting.
(d) White.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the dead men rise, what is the most significant thing they do?

2. How does the Mariner describe time after the object hangs around his neck?

3. What do the speakers the Mariner hears while unconscious say is not yet over for the Mariner?

4. What color shadows does the Mariner see?

5. Why must the Mariner remain unconscious?

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