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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 where is the Ship followed?
2. What stops the Guest?
3. Why does the Albatross come to the ship?
4. What does the Epigraph help the reader to see in the poem?
5. How high is the ice in the polar region?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does it mean to be "vigilant for truth" and to "maintain proportion?"
2. Describe Thomas Burnet's overall attitude towards the invisible Nature.
3. 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?
4. What is difficult about believing in invisible Natures, according to Thomas Burnet and Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
5. What is significant about the lengthy explanation of invisible Spirits towards the end of Part II?
6. 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"?
7. What seems to be significant about the Guest's compulsion to listen to the Mariner's story?
8. 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?
9. Why is it important for the mind to contemplate the invisible Natures?
10. Describe the interaction between the mariners and the Albatross.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explicate the characters of Death and Life-in-Death. What kind of characters are they? How do they change the story? How do their descriptions relate to their actions? Although they only appear in Part III of the poem, they are nonetheless important throughout. Be sure to demonstrate how this is so.
Essay Topic 2
Analyze the superstition of the characters in the poem. How does superstition become a controlling factor in the lives of those on the Ship? How is superstition portrayed in the story? Is it frivolous and silly, or justified? Why or why not? Be sure to cite specific examples from the text.
Essay Topic 3
Personification of inanimate objects is a device used consistently throughout the poem. Explain the significance of the major personifications in the poem (the Sun, the Moon, Death, the Ocean). How does personifying these elements impact the story and the main theme of the story (visible and invisible Natures)?
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