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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. When the Mariner awakes after the Heavenly sleep, what does he find?
(a) His homeland.
(b) That the corpses of the crew are gone.
(c) Rain.
(d) Nothing.

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

3. How many passengers are on the ship that arrives?
(a) Four.
(b) Zero.
(c) Two-hundred.
(d) Two.

4. Who does the Mariner hear talking while he is unconscious?
(a) Two spirits.
(b) The Polar Spirit.
(c) The crew.
(d) His nephew.

5. What comforts the Mariner when he awakes after fainting?
(a) A wind.
(b) The Moon.
(c) The Polar Spirit.
(d) The Sun.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Mariner describe time after the object hangs around his neck?

2. How many men are there in the crew?

3. Who is the Mariner eager to see on the rescue boat?

4. Which word does the Mariner NOT use to describe the object he spots at the Line?

5. What example of the Mariner's does the rest of the crew follow?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the Guest interrupt the Mariner in Part V? How does the Mariner respond?

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

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

4. What is the Mariner's initial reaction to his surroundings in Part IV? Why is this significant?

5. Describe the death of the crew.

6. How does the Mariner's attitude toward his surroundings in Part IV change? What does this prompt?

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

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

9. Why are the souls of the crew compared to the cross-bow?

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

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