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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) There is no wind or tide.
(c) It disappears and reappears at random.
(d) It is not floating on the sea.

2. Who takes pity on the Mariner after he watches the objects in the moonlight?
(a) The Polar Spirit.
(b) A saint.
(c) Death.
(d) Life-in-Death.

3. Who steers the Ship after the dead men rise?
(a) The helmsman.
(b) The Mariner.
(c) The Mariner's brother.
(d) The Guest.

4. To what is the ocean subservient?
(a) The Mariner.
(b) The Sun.
(c) The Moon.
(d) The Polar Spirit.

5. Who claims the crew?
(a) The Mariner.
(b) The Woman.
(c) Life-in-Death.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What "thousand thousand" things live on?

2. Why does the Mariner envy the Moon and stars?

3. What sort of weather is occurring when the Ship begins to move?

4. What does the form of the spirits attract?

5. What comes between the Mariner's Ship and the sun?

Short Essay Questions

1. What two body parts are most strongly emphasized in Part III? How?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What are the sounds the Mariner hears towards the end of Part VI, and how are they received by him?

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

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