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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 is the first strange thing noticed about the movement of the object that approaches the Ship at the Line?
(a) It is moving very fast.
(b) It is not floating on the sea.
(c) There is no wind or tide.
(d) It disappears and reappears at random.

2. Whose are the two voices the Mariner hears while unconscious?
(a) The spirits.
(b) Death and Life-in-Death.
(c) Two members of the crew.
(d) The Polar Spirit and the Albatross.

3. Who is the Mariner eager to see on the rescue boat?
(a) The Hermit.
(b) The Pilot's Boy.
(c) The Pilot.
(d) His wife.

4. How does the Ship begin to move after the Mariner wakes from the Heavenly sleep?
(a) The wind pushes it.
(b) Mysteriously.
(c) The crew begins to row.
(d) The Ship moves itself.

5. When the dead men rise, what is the most significant thing they do?
(a) Not speak.
(b) Tlak to each other.
(c) Groan.
(d) Not move their eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why must the Mariner remain unconscious?

2. What happens when the Mariner regains consciousness?

3. How many men are there in the crew?

4. What does the person working beside the Mariner say to him?

5. How many times does the Woman whistle?

Short Essay Questions

1. After regaining consciousness from fainting, what does the Mariner again feel the effects of? What are those effects?

2. How do you describe the change in the Mariner's condition through Part IV of the poem?

3. In your own words, what is the simile the Mariner constructs after the marginal notes say the curse is expiated?

4. Describe the death of the crew.

5. What two things is the Mariner thankful for at the beginning of Part V, and to whom are these things attributed?

6. What are some of the descriptions of the ship carrying Death and Life-in-Death?

7. What does the Mariner mean when he says, "O let me be awake, my God! / Or let me sleep alway," in the middle of Part VI?

8. Why is it important that the Mariner remains unconscious at the beginning of Part VI? What happens when he awakes?

9. How does Coleridge use colors in Part IV of the poem? What are some of the colors he uses?

10. What natural force is described as "roaring" after the Mariner wakes from the Heavenly sleep? What is unusual about it?

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