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

2. In what direction is the Mariner looking when he spots something at the Line?
(a) North.
(b) West.
(c) South.
(d) East.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first strange thing noticed about the movement of the object that approaches the Ship at the Line?

2. What falls into the sea, like lead?

3. What does the Mariner do, without realizing it, after watching the objects in the moonlight?

4. What do the recently evacuated spirits form?

5. Death is described as the Woman's:

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what the Mariner sees when he turns his eyes back to the deck of the Ship, after describing the harbor in Part VI.

2. What does the Mariner mean when he says, "O let me be awake, my God! / Or let me sleep alway," in the middle of Part VI?

3. For how long does the Mariner suffer? How is this significant?

4. After regaining consciousness from fainting, what does the Mariner again feel the effects of? What are those effects?

5. What do the two spirits discuss at the end of Part V?

6. What natural force is described as "roaring" after the Mariner wakes from the Heavenly sleep? What is unusual about it?

7. Describe the death of the crew.

8. Why are the souls of the crew compared to the cross-bow?

9. How does Coleridge use colors in Part IV of the poem? What are some of the colors he uses?

10. In your own words, what is the simile the Mariner constructs after the marginal notes say the curse is expiated?

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