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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the Guest command the Mariner to do?
2. What does Thomas Burnet think people ought to do about these natures?
3. What question does Thomas Burnet ask about these natures?
4. Who goes before the bride into the Wedding hall?
5. What are seen dancing at night?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Thomas Burnet's overall attitude towards the invisible Nature.
2. What does Thomas Burnet mean by saying "it is sometimes beneficial to contemplate, in thought, as in a picture, the image of a greater and better world"?
3. Why are the notes important to the poem?
4. Where and why is the Ship stranded?
5. Why might it be significant that the crew cannot speak as part of their punishment?
6. Why is it important for man to remain objective in his studies of the two Natures?
7. What is meant, in the third part, by, "at a dear ransom he freeth his speech from the bonds of thirst"? Why is this important?
8. Describe the interaction between the mariners and the Albatross.
9. Explain the metaphor used in Part IV, regarding the Moon and stars: "they enter unannounced, as lords that are certainly expected, and yet there is a silent joy at their arrival".
10. For what reasons are there differences between the text of the poem and the text of the notes, such as Life-in-Death only being referenced as the "Spectre-Woman" in the notes?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay on the role of the supernatural world in the poem. Analyze its interaction with the natural world, the poem's characters, and the reasons it acts the way it does. Be certain to discuss the different attitudes of the different supernatural forces towards the Mariner.
Essay Topic 2
Analyze the literal and allegorical significance of the Albatross within the story. Include a well-formed explication of what allegory is before demonstrating how the Albatross fulfills this explanation. Feel free to use external sources to fully show how the Albatross is an example of an allegorical object. Also be sure to relate its importance to the events of the poem.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze the mounting of despair in the first half of the poem. What sort of events prompt feelings of despair? What influence upon despair is had by the supernatural? How much of the despair experience is strictly natural? Be sure to mention the inability to speak, and particularly to pray.
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