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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Lines 1-82.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What comes through the snow-fog and is joyfully received?
(a) The Pilot.
(b) The Guest.
(c) An Albatross.
(d) The Polar Spirit.

2. By what instrument is the Guest distracted?
(a) A bassoon.
(b) A flute.
(c) An oboe.
(d) A harpsichord.

3. Who is the original author of the poem's Epigraph?
(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(b) Thomas Burnet.
(c) William Butler Yeats.
(d) Seamus Heaney.

4. What does Thomas Burnet say happens to the mind that does not contemplate the invisible Nature?
(a) It dwindles and thinks only petty thoughts.
(b) It makes man vigilant for truth.
(c) It keeps a sense of perspective.
(d) It attains knowledge of the visible natures.

5. How high is the ice in the polar region?
(a) Below the water.
(b) Bow high.
(c) Higher than can be seen.
(d) Mast high.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thomas Burnet think people ought to do about these natures?

2. What hangs around the Mariner's neck?

3. Who alters the text of the poem's Epigraph?

4. Where does the Guest sit?

5. How are the bodies of the crew re-animated?

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