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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. Who claims the crew?

2. What leaves the bodies of the crew?

3. What does the Mariner hear after the spirits make their form?

4. What does the form of the spirits attract?

5. When the Mariner awakes after the Heavenly sleep, what does he find?

Short Essay Questions

1. For how long does the Mariner suffer? How is this significant?

2. How is Life-in-Death described? What is the significance of Life-in-Death's description?

3. Describe what the Mariner sees when he turns his eyes back to the deck of the Ship, after describing the harbor in Part VI.

4. Why does the Guest interrupt the Mariner in Part V? How does the Mariner respond?

5. What are some of the descriptions of the ship carrying Death and Life-in-Death?

6. What are the sounds the Mariner hears towards the end of Part VI, and how are they received by him?

7. What natural force is described as "roaring" after the Mariner wakes from the Heavenly sleep? What is unusual about it?

8. How does the Mariner's attitude toward his surroundings in Part IV change? What does this prompt?

9. After regaining consciousness from fainting, what does the Mariner again feel the effects of? What are those effects?

10. How do you describe the change in the Mariner's condition through Part IV of the poem?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Present a coherent analysis of the character of Wedding-Guest. Important things to consider include:

1) His unwillingness to listen but compulsion to do so;

2) His fearful interruptions;

3) His actions at the end of the story (not attending the wedding);

4) Waking up the following morning "sadder and wiser."

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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