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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How long is the poem's Epigraph?
(a) Two pages.
(b) Three paragraphs.
(c) A paragraph.
(d) Six pages.

4. Why does the Albatross come to the ship?
(a) To sleep on the mast.
(b) To frighten the crew.
(c) For food and play.
(d) To steal the crew's food.

5. How is the area into which the Ship first enters, after passing the Line, described?
(a) Hot, tropical.
(b) Chilly, windy.
(c) Calm, humid.
(d) Cold, icy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why are the sailors being becalmed?

3. After describing the arrival of the Albatross and its interaction with the crew, the Mariner begins to look intensely uncomfortable. Why?

4. Who has the first speaking line?

5. What two Natures does Thomas Burnet say there are?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the Epigraph important to the text of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem?

2. What is significant about the Albatross being mentioned explicitly as a bird of good omen in the notes, and not in the Mariner's relation of the tale?

3. For what reasons are there differences between the text of the poem and the text of the notes, such as Life-in-Death only being referenced as the "Spectre-Woman" in the notes?

4. Why might it be significant that the crew cannot speak as part of their punishment?

5. Is the crew superstitious? If so, give two examples.

6. Why is the human mind "always circled around a knowledge of these things" but never attains such knowledge?

7. In your own words, briefly describe the polar region. Be sure to include important descriptive details.

8. Briefly explain what you take to be the significance of the Mariner shooting the Albatross with a crossbow.

9. Who is responsible for the becalming of the Ship, and how is this known?

10. Describe the interaction between the mariners and the Albatross.

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