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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Mariner watch in the moonlight?
(a) Water-snakes.
(b) The corpses of the crew.
(c) Death and Life-in-Death.
(d) Death-fires.

2. When the dead men rise, what is the most significant thing they do?
(a) Groan.
(b) Not move their eyes.
(c) Tlak to each other.
(d) Not speak.

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

4. How does the Mariner describe time after the object hangs around his neck?
(a) Dreary.
(b) Still.
(c) Fleeting.
(d) Weary.

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

6. After the Mariner feels unexpected love, what is he able to do?
(a) Pray.
(b) See.
(c) Cry.
(d) Move.

7. Why must the Mariner remain unconscious?
(a) It is a part of his punishment.
(b) To dream.
(c) He needs to rest.
(d) The Ship is moving too fast.

8. What example of the Mariner's does the rest of the crew follow?
(a) They go to sleep.
(b) They write each other notes.
(c) They also drink their own blood.
(d) They also kick their legs.

9. The Mariner thinks the objects he watches in the moonlight are:
(a) Terrifying.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Hideous.
(d) Boring.

10. Who claims the crew?
(a) The Mariner.
(b) Life-in-Death.
(c) Death.
(d) The Woman.

11. When the Mariner awakes after the Heavenly sleep, what does he "almost" think happens?
(a) The Ship goes back to the land of mist and snow.
(b) He is dreaming the whole time.
(c) He dies in his sleep.
(d) The crew is playing a trick on him.

12. What comforts the Mariner when he awakes after fainting?
(a) The Moon.
(b) The Polar Spirit.
(c) The Sun.
(d) A wind.

13. How many men are there in the crew?
(a) Forty.
(b) Thirty-seven.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Two-hundred.

14. Which of the following does the Mariner NOT describe seeing when he returns to his country?
(a) A familiar ship.
(b) The kirk.
(c) A hill.
(d) The lighthouse.

15. Who takes pity on the Mariner after he watches the objects in the moonlight?
(a) Life-in-Death.
(b) The Polar Spirit.
(c) A saint.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What comes between the Mariner's Ship and the sun?

2. Who lies dead on the Ship at the beginning of Part IV?

3. How many days and nights does the Mariner see the curse?

4. What "thousand thousand" things live on?

5. All of the sailors, including the Mariner, are mute by extreme thirst. How does he tell them what he sees?

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