2. What does the Epigraph help the reader to see in the poem?
(a) The necessity of mercy.
(b) The importance of invisible Nature.
(c) The value of foresight.
(d) The impossibility of truth.

3. Where is the Ship after the fog lifts?
(a) The Indian Ocean.
(b) The Mariner's homeland.
(c) The Line.
(d) The region of ice and snow.

4. What do the sailors see in the polar region?
(a) Strange animals.
(b) Sea creatures.
(c) Only ice.
(d) Primitive men.

5. With what is the Mariner refreshed?
(a) Rain.
(b) Angelic company.
(c) Food.
(d) Wine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kinds of worlds are implied in the Epigraph?

2. Why are the sailors being becalmed?

3. No _______ comes to the crew's ________.

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

5. From where is the Ship followed?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. Why are the notes important to the poem?

5. 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".

6. What are some of the punishments of the crew?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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