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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who steers the Ship after the dead men rise?
(a) The Guest.
(b) The helmsman.
(c) The Mariner.
(d) The Mariner's brother.

2. How does the Mariner describe time after the object hangs around his neck?
(a) Weary.
(b) Fleeting.
(c) Dreary.
(d) Still.

3. What does the form of the spirits attract?
(a) The Polar Spirit.
(b) A rescue boat.
(c) Demonic spirits.
(d) The ghost of the Albatross.

4. Which color is NOT used to describe the objects the Mariner watches in the moonlight?
(a) Glossy green.
(b) Velvet black.
(c) Blue.
(d) Turquoise.

5. How does the Ship begin to move after the Mariner wakes from the Heavenly sleep?
(a) The Ship moves itself.
(b) The wind pushes it.
(c) Mysteriously.
(d) The crew begins to row.

6. Where does the Ship go when the Mariner awakes after fainting?
(a) The Line.
(b) A new land.
(c) The Mariner's home country.
(d) The polar region.

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

8. What do the speakers the Mariner hears while unconscious say is not yet over for the Mariner?
(a) His punishment.
(b) His story.
(c) The wedding.
(d) His journey.

9. What does the person working beside the Mariner say to him?
(a) God bless you.
(b) Hello.
(c) We are going home.
(d) Nothing.

10. What does the Guest fear at the beginning of Part IV?
(a) That all the crew die.
(b) That the wedding is almost over.
(c) That the Mariner is a spirit.
(d) The rest of the story.

11. Who makes the dead men rise?
(a) A witch.
(b) Demons.
(c) Death.
(d) Angels.

12. What are Death and the Woman doing?
(a) Casting dice.
(b) Painting the mariners.
(c) Laughing wildly.
(d) Making a coffin.

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

14. How is the moon described?
(a) New.
(b) Quarter.
(c) Horned.
(d) Full.

15. What color shadows does the Mariner see?
(a) Blue.
(b) Red.
(c) Green.
(d) Orange.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Mariner describe the sails of the other ship?

2. What slides into the soul of the Mariner?

3. What does the Mariner do, without realizing it, after watching the objects in the moonlight?

4. Why does the Mariner envy the Moon and stars?

5. How many days and nights does the Mariner see the curse?

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