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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 does the Woman win?
(a) The Mariner.
(b) The Albatross.
(c) Death.
(d) The Ship.

2. What comes between the Mariner's Ship and the sun?
(a) The newly arrived ship.
(b) A sea monster.
(c) Mist.
(d) The Polar Spirit.

3. Where does the Ship go when the Mariner awakes after fainting?
(a) A new land.
(b) The Line.
(c) The Mariner's home country.
(d) The polar region.

4. How is the moon described?
(a) Quarter.
(b) Horned.
(c) New.
(d) Full.

5. What objects are at the Mariner's feet during his suffering in Part IV?
(a) The dead.
(b) The sea creatures.
(c) Books.
(d) Death and Life-in-Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose are the two voices the Mariner hears while unconscious?

2. To what is the ocean subservient?

3. Why must the Mariner remain unconscious?

4. What forces are steering the Ship while the Mariner is unconscious?

5. What does the Mariner feel when he wakes up after fainting?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe the death of the crew.

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

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

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

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

9. Who does the Mariner describe as a "ghastly crew", and why?

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

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