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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. Where does the Ship go when the Mariner awakes after fainting?

2. What "thousand thousand" things live on?

3. What does the Woman win?

4. When can the Mariner not do again when he awakes after fainting?

5. What objects are at the Mariner's feet during his suffering in Part IV?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the death of the crew.

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

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

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

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 some of the descriptions of the ship carrying Death and Life-in-Death?

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

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

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

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.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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