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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) Ancient and young.
(b) Visible and invisible.
(c) Animal and human.
(d) Human and spiritual.

2. What is the purpose of the notes?
(a) To add mystery to the poem.
(b) To direct the reader's attention to the poem's meter.
(c) Clarification of the poem's meaning.
(d) Historical information about seafaring in the 18th century.

3. What question does Thomas Burnet ask about these natures?
(a) Where do the Natures reside?
(b) Who explains the invisible Nature to us?
(c) Who explains the visible Nature?
(d) How does man distinguish between the visible and invisible?

4. Epigraph means:
(a) A quote or citation placed at the beginning of a literary work in order to set a theme for the whole.
(b) A collection of lines from the poem, placed at its beginning to foreshadow themes to come.
(c) A rhyming quatrain with which a poem begins or ends.
(d) A brief letter written by the author of a poem about his work.

5. What is the overall tone of the Epigraph?
(a) Confused.
(b) Negative.
(c) Speculative.
(d) Optimistic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are seen dancing at night?

2. The water is compared to what mystical substance?

3. Why are the sailors being becalmed?

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

5. In what direction does the ship go after the Albatross arrives?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do you think there is such a strong emphasis placed on the Mariner's eye in Part I?

3. Describe Thomas Burnet's overall attitude towards the invisible Nature.

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

5. Where and why is the Ship stranded?

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

7. Why is it important that the notes make it clear that Life-in-Death wins the Mariner in her game of dice with Death?

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

9. Why is it important for the mind to contemplate the invisible Natures?

10. What seems to be significant about the Guest's compulsion to listen to the Mariner's story?

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