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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. What two Natures does Thomas Burnet say there are?
(a) Visible and invisible.
(b) Ancient and young.
(c) Human and spiritual.
(d) Animal and human.

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

3. What distracts the Guest?
(a) The Mariner's beard.
(b) Bridal Music.
(c) An Albatross.
(d) His wife.

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

5. No _______ comes to the crew's ________.
(a) Answer, prayers.
(b) Rest, minds.
(c) Bird, hollo.
(d) Joy, hearts.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Guest listen to the Mariner?

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

3. What initially changes the sailors' minds about the Albatross, to think negatively of it, after it dies?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is meant, in the third part, by, "at a dear ransom he freeth his speech from the bonds of thirst"? Why is this important?

2. Explain the metaphor used in Part IV, regarding the Moon and stars: "they enter unannounced, as lords that are certainly expected, and yet there is a silent joy at their arrival".

3. Why are the Sun and Storm-blast personified and how is their personification signified?

4. What is significant about the lengthy explanation of invisible Spirits towards the end of Part II?

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

6. Where and why is the Ship stranded?

7. The Mariner has a look of intense regret on his face towards the end of Part I. Why does the Mariner look so, and why is it important?

8. Why does the Albatross hang around the neck of the Mariner?

9. 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?

10. Why is it important for man to remain objective in his studies of the two Natures?

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