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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the Hermit instruct the Mariner to teach others?
(a) To live a solitary life of peace.
(b) To fight the evil spirits who terrorize man throughout the world.
(c) To love and reverence all things made by God.
(d) To never kill animals.

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

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

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

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

7. How many of the men does the Mariner stop?
(a) One.
(b) Seven.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

8. Why are the sailors being becalmed?
(a) As punishment for being superstitious.
(b) As punishment for killing the Albatross.
(c) As punishment for entering the region of mist and snow.
(d) As punishment for blaming the Mariner.

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

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

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

12. After the fog lifts, what suddenly happens to the Ship?
(a) It begins to sink.
(b) It is becalmed.
(c) The main mast breaks.
(d) It runs into a reef.

13. Thomas Burnet says man must be vigilant of:
(a) Night.
(b) Proportion.
(c) Truth.
(d) Life.

14. In what year is the Epigraph added to the poem?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1817.
(c) 1767.
(d) 1692.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thomas Burnet say we must keep a sense of?

2. What stops the Guest?

3. Who has the first speaking line?

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

5. Slimy things are seen crawling with legs upon the slimy what?

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