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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Guest command the Mariner to do?
(a) Prepare the Ship.
(b) Tell his story.
(c) Join the wedding procession.
(d) Let him go.

2. Where is the Ship after the fog lifts?
(a) The Line.
(b) The Indian Ocean.
(c) The Mariner's homeland.
(d) The region of ice and snow.

3. What is the relationship between the Guest and the Bridegroom?
(a) Next of kin.
(b) Distant cousins.
(c) Close friends.
(d) Co-workers.

4. What stops the Guest?
(a) Armed guards.
(b) A large stone.
(c) A locked gate.
(d) The Mariner's eye.

5. Why does Thomas Burnet say people study invisible Nature?
(a) To know the truth.
(b) To broaden their minds.
(c) To live happily.
(d) To find peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what direction does the ship initially sail?

2. What question does Thomas Burnet ask about these natures?

3. What is the "Line"?

4. In what year is the Epigraph added to the poem?

5. Where are the men the Mariner meets going?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the human mind "always circled around a knowledge of these things" but never attains such knowledge?

2. The Mariner has a look of intense regret on his face towards the end of Part I. Why does the Mariner look so, and why is it important?

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. What does it mean to be "vigilant for truth" and to "maintain proportion?"

5. Why are the notes important to the poem?

6. Why might it be significant that the crew cannot speak as part of their punishment?

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

8. Why are the Sun and Storm-blast personified and how is their personification signified?

9. What are some of the punishments of the crew?

10. Where and why is the Ship stranded?

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