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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 other Nature is studied in the poem?
2. How does the Albatross die?
3. Who is the author of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"?
4. What hangs around the Mariner's neck?
5. What does the Guest command the Mariner to do?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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"?
2. Why might it be significant that the crew cannot speak as part of their punishment?
3. Briefly explain what you take to be the significance of the Mariner shooting the Albatross with a crossbow.
4. 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?
5. Why does the Albatross hang around the neck of the Mariner?
6. Why are the notes important to the poem?
7. Is the crew superstitious? If so, give two examples.
8. Why is the Epigraph important to the text of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem?
9. Why is it important that the notes make it clear that Life-in-Death wins the Mariner in her game of dice with Death?
10. What is difficult about believing in invisible Natures, according to Thomas Burnet and Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Religion is an important theme in the story. Analyze its presence and influence on the characters and actions throughout the poem. Be sure to include the importance of prayer, the cross, the kirk, and the Hermit.
Essay Topic 2
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.
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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