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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Lines 83-142.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the Albatross die?
(a) The Albatross is hit by falling ice and drowns in the sea.
(b) The crew forgets to feed the Albatross and it freezes to death.
(c) The Mariner shoots it with his crossbow.
(d) The Mariner's nephew shoots it with a crossbow.

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

3. Who is the author of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"?
(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(b) Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(c) John Donne.
(d) William Wordsworth.

4. Which form of Nature does this poem focus on?
(a) The spiritual.
(b) The human.
(c) The invisible.
(d) The visible.

5. What comes upon the Ship when it reaches the Line?
(a) The Storm-blast.
(b) Snow.
(c) The Sickness.
(d) Total calm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is the ice?

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

3. What initially changes the sailors' minds about the Albatross, to think negatively of it, after it dies?

4. Who has the first speaking line?

5. What does the Guest command the Mariner to do?

(see the answer key)

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