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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. From what work of Thomas Burnet's does the Epigraph derive?
2. In what year is the Epigraph added to the poem?
3. What does the Epigraph help the reader to see in the poem?
4. What does the approaching ship resemble?
5. What is the "Line"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is the human mind "always circled around a knowledge of these things" but never attains such knowledge?
2. 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?
3. What is significant about the Albatross being mentioned explicitly as a bird of good omen in the notes, and not in the Mariner's relation of the tale?
4. Why does the Albatross hang around the neck of the Mariner?
5. What is difficult about believing in invisible Natures, according to Thomas Burnet and Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
6. Who is responsible for the becalming of the Ship, and how is this known?
7. Why are the notes important to the poem?
8. 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?
9. What seems to be significant about the Guest's compulsion to listen to the Mariner's story?
10. What does it mean to be "vigilant for truth" and to "maintain proportion?"
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze the depictions of human nature in the story. Describe in what ways they are or are not accurate. Be sure to include the following characters in your analysis:
1) The Mariner.
2) The Crew.
3) The Wedding-Guest.
4) The Hermit OR the Pilot.
Essay Topic 2
The Line, the name used for the equator in the poem, is a location where many events of significance occur in the poem. Examine these events and analyze the particular importance of them occurring at the world's equator. In particular, analyze how the Line acts as a physical nexus for all kinds of action, natural and supernatural.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay on the theme of sin throughout the poem. Analyze how it is significant to the plot and the meaning. Be sure to include the sins of both the Mariner and the crew, how sin in the natural world relates to the supernatural world, and how those sins effected their fates.
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