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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. How many passengers are on the ship that arrives?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Two-hundred.
(d) Zero.

2. What leaves the bodies of the crew?
(a) Demonic spirits.
(b) Angelic spirits.
(c) Strange spirits.
(d) Their souls.

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

4. What does the person working beside the Mariner say to him?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Hello.
(c) God bless you.
(d) We are going home.

5. What sort of weather is occurring when the Ship begins to move?
(a) Calm.
(b) Snowing.
(c) Gently raining.
(d) Storming.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time of day does the Mariner wake up after fainting?

2. What objects are at the Mariner's feet during his suffering in Part IV?

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

4. What does the Guest fear at the beginning of Part IV?

5. How does the crew curse the Mariner?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Mariner's attitude toward his surroundings in Part IV change? What does this prompt?

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

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

4. Describe the dice game between Death and Life-in-Death.

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

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

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

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

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

10. Who does the Mariner describe as a "ghastly crew", and why?

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