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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. When do the Mariner's shipmates "drop down dead"?
3. Who, are some sailors assured in their dreams, follows the Ship?
4. What hangs around the Mariner's neck?
5. What does the Hermit instruct the Mariner to teach others?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is the human mind "always circled around a knowledge of these things" but never attains such knowledge?
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 does the Albatross hang around the neck of the Mariner?
4. In your own words, briefly describe the polar region. Be sure to include important descriptive details.
5. Briefly explain what you take to be the significance of the Mariner shooting the Albatross with a crossbow.
6. Why might it be significant that the crew cannot speak as part of their punishment?
7. What seems to be significant about the Guest's compulsion to listen to the Mariner's story?
8. Why do you think there is such a strong emphasis placed on the Mariner's eye in Part I?
9. Why are the notes important to the poem?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Throughout the poem, eyes are prominently mentioned. Analyze the significance of their mentions, how they influence the story, and any deeper significance they might have. Feel free to include your personal opinions on the importance of eyes.
Essay Topic 2
Analyze the poem's presentation of contrition, redemption, and penance. Explain how each follows upon the other in the Mariner's story; how does he achieve each? How do these three things relate to human nature, guilt?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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