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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. Why must the Mariner remain unconscious?
(a) To dream.
(b) It is a part of his punishment.
(c) The Ship is moving too fast.
(d) He needs to rest.

2. What does the form of the spirits attract?
(a) The ghost of the Albatross.
(b) Demonic spirits.
(c) A rescue boat.
(d) The Polar Spirit.

3. Who sends the "gentle sleep from Heaven"?
(a) Mary.
(b) The Albatross.
(c) The gods.
(d) Angels.

4. What does the Mariner try to do, but cannot?
(a) Cry.
(b) Pray.
(c) Swim.
(d) Sing.

5. Who lies dead on the Ship at the beginning of Part IV?
(a) The crew.
(b) The sea creatures.
(c) The Mariner.
(d) The Albatross.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the crew curse the Mariner?

2. The Mariner prays to God that if he is not awake, then let him be:

3. What does the Mariner do, without realizing it, after watching the objects in the moonlight?

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

5. When the dead men rise, what is the most significant thing they do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the death of the crew.

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

3. At the beginning of Part IV, what is the Mariner's relationship to prayer?

4. How is Life-in-Death described? What is the significance of Life-in-Death's description?

5. Describe what the Mariner sees when he turns his eyes back to the deck of the Ship, after describing the harbor in Part VI.

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

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

8. What happens to the Ship after the Mariner faints? Who relates the action of the story while he is unconscious?

9. For how long does the Mariner suffer? How is this significant?

10. What do the two spirits discuss at the end of Part V?

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