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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 does the Guest fear at the beginning of Part IV?

2. When does the Mariner faint?

3. What color shadows does the Mariner see?

4. How many days and nights does the Mariner see the curse?

5. Who is guiding, not steering, the Ship while it is being crewed by the dead men?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the beginning of Part IV, what is the Mariner's relationship to prayer?

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

3. How does Coleridge use colors in Part IV of the poem? What are some of the colors he uses?

4. What happens to the Ship after the Mariner faints? Who relates the action of the story while he is unconscious?

5. Describe the death of the crew.

6. What is the Mariner's initial reaction to his surroundings in Part IV? Why is this significant?

7. What two things is the Mariner thankful for at the beginning of Part V, and to whom are these things attributed?

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

9. Describe the dice game between Death and Life-in-Death.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay on the role of the natural world in the poem. Analyze how it is used by characters and forces, why it is significant, in what ways it is important to the advancement of the story, how it is abused, and in what ways it is essential to the story.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the presentations of Thomas Burnet in the Epigraph and the text of the poem itself regarding the invisible Natures. Analyze each presentation separately and then show how they are alike and/or unlike one another. Be sure to include specific references to the text.

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