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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. Whose are the two voices the Mariner hears while unconscious?

2. Which of the following does the Mariner NOT describe seeing when he returns to his country?

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

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

5. The Mariner thinks the objects he watches in the moonlight are:

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In your own words, what is the simile the Mariner constructs after the marginal notes say the curse is expiated?

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

5. Describe the death of the crew.

6. What do the two spirits discuss at the end of Part V?

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

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

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

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

Religion is an important theme in the story. Analyze its presence and influence on the characters and actions throughout the poem. Be sure to include the importance of prayer, the cross, the kirk, and the Hermit.

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

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.

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