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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 is the purpose of the notes?

2. What is the relationship between the Guest and the Bridegroom?

3. What do the sailors initially believe the Albatross had favorably done for them?

4. After the fog lifts, what suddenly happens to the Ship?

5. What color is the ice?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where and why is the Ship stranded?

2. The Mariner has a look of intense regret on his face towards the end of Part I. Why does the Mariner look so, and why is it important?

3. Why are the Sun and Storm-blast personified and how is their personification signified?

4. Why is it important that the notes make it clear that Life-in-Death wins the Mariner in her game of dice with Death?

5. Why might it be significant that the crew cannot speak as part of their punishment?

6. What are some of the punishments of the crew?

7. Why is it important for man to remain objective in his studies of the two Natures?

8. Is the crew superstitious? If so, give two examples.

9. Why are the notes important to the poem?

10. Why is the Epigraph important to the text of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Present an analysis of the poem's reversal. How does the Mariner move from despair to hope? Is it primarily a change in his external conditions, or his internal disposition? What impact do the natural and/or supernatural world have on the change in the Mariner?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the character of the Hermit. What role does he play? How is he unique from the other characters in the story? What aspects of human nature does he signify? Does he have any importance beyond the natural world?

Essay Topic 3

Provide an analysis of the Mariner's character. How does his character change from the beginning of his narrative to the end? How does he describe in the framing part of the story? What are his joys and sorrows? How does he change from before he tells his story to after he tells it?

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