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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 does the Mariner ask the Hermit to do?
(a) To absolve him of his sins.
(b) To repair his boat.
(c) To help him bury his shipmates.
(d) To bring him home.

2. How long is the poem's Epigraph?
(a) A paragraph.
(b) Two pages.
(c) Three paragraphs.
(d) Six pages.

3. After describing the arrival of the Albatross and its interaction with the crew, the Mariner begins to look intensely uncomfortable. Why?
(a) He is thinking about how the Albatross drowns in the sea.
(b) He is thinking about how he kills the Albatross.
(c) He is remembering how the Albatross freezes to death.
(d) He is sad that his nephew kills the Albatross.

4. What question does Thomas Burnet ask about these natures?
(a) How does man distinguish between the visible and invisible?
(b) Who explains the visible Nature?
(c) Where do the Natures reside?
(d) Who explains the invisible Nature to us?

5. What is the name of the learned Jew?
(a) Tacitus.
(b) Marcus Aurelius.
(c) Michael Psellus.
(d) Josephus.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what work of Thomas Burnet's does the Epigraph derive?

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

3. What comes through the snow-fog and is joyfully received?

4. How does Thomas Burnet think the Natures are studied?

5. Where does the Guest sit?

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