View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What initially changes the sailors' minds about the Albatross, to think negatively of it, after it dies?
(a) The wind changes directions.
(b) The fog clears after the Mariner shoots it.
(c) The rains come.
(d) The ship runs into more ice.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the Ship after the fog lifts?

2. What do the sailors initially believe the Albatross had favorably done for them?

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

4. Who/what arises on the left of the Ship, from the sea?

5. After the removal of the curse, what does the Mariner behold?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is responsible for the becalming of the Ship, and how is this known?

2. Why is it important for the mind to contemplate the invisible Natures?

3. What is significant about the Albatross being mentioned explicitly as a bird of good omen in the notes, and not in the Mariner's relation of the tale?

4. Why is the Epigraph important to the text of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem?

5. Briefly explain what you take to be the significance of the Mariner shooting the Albatross with a crossbow.

6. Describe Thomas Burnet's overall attitude towards the invisible Nature.

7. Why are the notes important to the poem?

8. What seems to be significant about the Guest's compulsion to listen to the Mariner's story?

9. What is meant by "Life-in-Death begins her work on the Mariner?" What is her work?

10. What is difficult about believing in invisible Natures, according to Thomas Burnet and Samuel Taylor Coleridge?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 788 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample