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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) Dry as dust.
(b) Heavy as a stone.
(c) Empty as an abyss.
(d) Cold as ice.

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

3. What do the recently evacuated spirits form?
(a) Points of light.
(b) A greater Spirit.
(c) A new ship.
(d) A giant wave.

4. To what is the ocean subservient?
(a) The Polar Spirit.
(b) The Mariner.
(c) The Moon.
(d) The Sun.

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

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

7. At what time of day does the Mariner wake up after fainting?
(a) At night.
(b) In the afternoon.
(c) In the morning.
(d) At evening.

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

9. The Mariner thinks the objects he watches in the moonlight are:
(a) Hideous.
(b) Boring.
(c) Terrifying.
(d) Beautiful.

10. Whose are the two voices the Mariner hears while unconscious?
(a) The spirits.
(b) Two members of the crew.
(c) The Polar Spirit and the Albatross.
(d) Death and Life-in-Death.

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

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

13. How does the Mariner describe the sails of the other ship?
(a) Like clouds.
(b) Like bedsheets.
(c) Like parchment.
(d) Like gossameres.

14. What does the Mariner feel when he wakes up after fainting?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Joy.
(c) Refreshment.
(d) The curse.

15. What objects are at the Mariner's feet during his suffering in Part IV?
(a) Death and Life-in-Death.
(b) Books.
(c) The dead.
(d) The sea creatures.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what does the Mariner see the curse?

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

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

4. Who does the Mariner hear talking while he is unconscious?

5. What does the Mariner see at the Line?

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