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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the moon described?
(a) Full.
(b) Horned.
(c) Quarter.
(d) New.

2. How many times does the Woman whistle?
(a) Zero times.
(b) Four times.
(c) Three times.
(d) One time.

3. Who is the Mariner eager to see on the rescue boat?
(a) The Hermit.
(b) The Pilot's Boy.
(c) The Pilot.
(d) His wife.

4. What happens when the Mariner regains consciousness?
(a) The spirits attacks him.
(b) The Ship slows down.
(c) The Ship speeds up.
(d) The Ship stops.

5. Who sends the "gentle sleep from Heaven"?
(a) Mary.
(b) The Albatross.
(c) The gods.
(d) Angels.

6. What does the Mariner reassure the Guest?
(a) That the story is almost over.
(b) That the wedding just begins.
(c) That the Mariner is alive.
(d) That the crew is alive.

7. Whose are the two voices the Mariner hears while unconscious?
(a) The spirits.
(b) Two members of the crew.
(c) The Polar Spirit and the Albatross.
(d) Death and Life-in-Death.

8. What comes between the Mariner's Ship and the sun?
(a) Mist.
(b) The newly arrived ship.
(c) The Polar Spirit.
(d) A sea monster.

9. What is the first strange thing noticed about the movement of the object that approaches the Ship at the Line?
(a) It is not floating on the sea.
(b) It disappears and reappears at random.
(c) It is moving very fast.
(d) There is no wind or tide.

10. What does the Guest fear at the beginning of Part IV?
(a) That the wedding is almost over.
(b) The rest of the story.
(c) That the Mariner is a spirit.
(d) That all the crew die.

11. The Mariner's heart is as:
(a) Empty as an abyss.
(b) Cold as ice.
(c) Dry as dust.
(d) Heavy as a stone.

12. What "thousand thousand" things live on?
(a) Birds.
(b) The crew.
(c) Slimy things.
(d) Angry spirits.

13. Which color is NOT used to describe the objects the Mariner watches in the moonlight?
(a) Glossy green.
(b) Turquoise.
(c) Blue.
(d) Velvet black.

14. What adjective does the Mariner use to describe the sea and the Ship?
(a) Bleak.
(b) Rotting.
(c) White.
(d) Decaying.

15. Who does the Mariner hear talking while he is unconscious?
(a) The Polar Spirit.
(b) Two spirits.
(c) His nephew.
(d) The crew.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Mariner hear after waking from the Heavenly sleep?

2. Why does the Mariner envy the Moon and stars?

3. In what does the Mariner see the curse?

4. The Mariner thinks the objects he watches in the moonlight are:

5. When the Mariner awakes after the Heavenly sleep, what does he find?

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