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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 Mariner hear after waking from the Heavenly sleep?
(a) A woman crying.
(b) The Ship groaning.
(c) A roaring wind.
(d) The screams of the crew.

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

3. When the Mariner awakes after the Heavenly sleep, what does he "almost" think happens?
(a) He dies in his sleep.
(b) He is dreaming the whole time.
(c) The crew is playing a trick on him.
(d) The Ship goes back to the land of mist and snow.

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

5. How does the crew curse the Mariner?
(a) With loud exclamations.
(b) With their eyes.
(c) By shaking their fists.
(d) In Latin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What falls into the sea, like lead?

2. All of the sailors, including the Mariner, are mute by extreme thirst. How does he tell them what he sees?

3. What does the Mariner watch in the moonlight?

4. Who is guiding, not steering, the Ship while it is being crewed by the dead men?

5. What happens when the Mariner regains consciousness?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the dice game between Death and Life-in-Death.

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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