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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 slides into the soul of the Mariner?

2. Who makes the dead men rise?

3. What does the Mariner do, without realizing it, after watching the objects in the moonlight?

4. For how long is the Mariner unconscious after fainting?

5. Why must the Mariner remain unconscious?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the souls of the crew compared to the cross-bow?

2. What two body parts are most strongly emphasized in Part III? How?

3. Why is it important that the Mariner remains unconscious at the beginning of Part VI? What happens when he awakes?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Who does the Mariner describe as a "ghastly crew", and why?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Personification of inanimate objects is a device used consistently throughout the poem. Explain the significance of the major personifications in the poem (the Sun, the Moon, Death, the Ocean). How does personifying these elements impact the story and the main theme of the story (visible and invisible Natures)?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Analyze the literal and allegorical significance of the Albatross within the story. Include a well-formed explication of what allegory is before demonstrating how the Albatross fulfills this explanation. Feel free to use external sources to fully show how the Albatross is an example of an allegorical object. Also be sure to relate its importance to the events of the poem.

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