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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the Albatross come to the ship?
(a) For food and play.
(b) To frighten the crew.
(c) To steal the crew's food.
(d) To sleep on the mast.

2. What kinds of worlds are implied in the Epigraph?
(a) Old and new.
(b) Real and imaginary.
(c) Natural and supernatural.
(d) Living and dead.

3. What does the approaching ship resemble?
(a) A wedding wreath.
(b) Sea creatures.
(c) An Albatross.
(d) A skeleton.

4. What does the Epigraph help the reader to see in the poem?
(a) The importance of invisible Nature.
(b) The impossibility of truth.
(c) The value of foresight.
(d) The necessity of mercy.

5. What is a synonym of the word "Rime" in the poem's title?
(a) Skin.
(b) Boat.
(c) Verse.
(d) Ice.

6. What does Thomas Burnet think people ought to do about these natures?
(a) Destroy them.
(b) Not study them.
(c) Ignore them.
(d) Study them.

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

8. How are the bodies of the crew re-animated?
(a) By Life-in-Death.
(b) By angelic spirits.
(c) By witchcraft.
(d) By demonic spirits.

9. Where does the Guest sit?
(a) On a stone.
(b) On a bench.
(c) On the ground.
(d) In a chair.

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

11. Who/what hides in the mist?
(a) The Sun.
(b) The Mariner.
(c) The Mariner's nephew.
(d) The Spirit.

12. What does the phrase, "Day after day, day after day" suggest?
(a) The constant flow of the water past the Ship.
(b) The remorse of the Mariner for killing the Albatross.
(c) The repetitiveness of being becalmed.
(d) The persistence of the crew in getting home.

13. After the removal of the curse, what does the Mariner behold?
(a) The Albatross.
(b) Creatures of the great calm.
(c) A temple.
(d) His native land.

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

15. What color is the ice?
(a) Silver.
(b) White.
(c) Blue.
(d) Green.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, are some sailors assured in their dreams, follows the Ship?

2. How is the area into which the Ship first enters, after passing the Line, described?

3. What are the notes?

4. How long is the poem's Epigraph?

5. Why are the sailors being becalmed?

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