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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. When the ship reaches the Line, what is over the mast at noon?
(a) A sail.
(b) The Lighthouse.
(c) The Sun.
(d) The Albatross.

2. Who alters the text of the poem's Epigraph?
(a) Derek Roper.
(b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(c) William Wordsworth.
(d) Thomas Burnet.

3. From what work of Thomas Burnet's does the Epigraph derive?
(a) De Anima.
(b) The Consolation of Philosophy.
(c) Divinia Commedia.
(d) Archaeologiae Philosophicae.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the original author of the poem's Epigraph?

2. What stops the Guest?

3. What is the purpose of the notes?

4. Why do his shipmates cry out against the Mariner?

5. How many of the men does the Mariner stop?

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