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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. Who/what arises on the left of the Ship, from the sea?
(a) The Sun.
(b) The Mariner.
(c) The Albatross.
(d) The Polar Spirit.

2. What are seen dancing at night?
(a) Spirits.
(b) Death-fires.
(c) Sea creatures.
(d) The Mariners.

3. What is the name of the learned Jew?
(a) Marcus Aurelius.
(b) Josephus.
(c) Michael Psellus.
(d) Tacitus.

4. What stops the Guest?
(a) Armed guards.
(b) The Mariner's eye.
(c) A large stone.
(d) A locked gate.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Thomas Burnet say people study invisible Nature?

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

3. What do the boards of the Ship do?

4. What color is the ice?

5. When the ship reaches the Line, what is over the mast at noon?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why are the notes important to the poem?

3. 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?

4. 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?

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

6. 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?

7. 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?

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

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

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

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