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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the ice do to frighten the sailors?
2. From what work of Thomas Burnet's does the Epigraph derive?
3. What does the Mariner see in the moonlight?
4. How does the Guest listen to the Mariner?
5. Who is the original author of the poem's Epigraph?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Thomas Burnet mean by saying "it is sometimes beneficial to contemplate, in thought, as in a picture, the image of a greater and better world"?
2. Briefly explain what you take to be the significance of the Mariner shooting the Albatross with a crossbow.
3. In your own words, briefly describe the polar region. Be sure to include important descriptive details.
4. What are some of the punishments of the crew?
5. Why is it important for the mind to contemplate the invisible Natures?
6. Why is the human mind "always circled around a knowledge of these things" but never attains such knowledge?
7. What is meant, in the third part, by, "at a dear ransom he freeth his speech from the bonds of thirst"? Why is this important?
8. Describe Thomas Burnet's overall attitude towards the invisible Nature.
9. Is the crew superstitious? If so, give two examples.
10. Why are the notes important to the poem?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze the depictions of human nature in the story. Describe in what ways they are or are not accurate. Be sure to include the following characters in your analysis:
1) The Mariner.
2) The Crew.
3) The Wedding-Guest.
4) The Hermit OR the Pilot.
Essay Topic 2
Analyze the mounting of despair in the first half of the poem. What sort of events prompt feelings of despair? What influence upon despair is had by the supernatural? How much of the despair experience is strictly natural? Be sure to mention the inability to speak, and particularly to pray.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze the literal and allegorical significance of the Albatross within the story. Include a well-formed explication of what allegory is before demonstrating how the Albatross fulfills this explanation. Feel free to use external sources to fully show how the Albatross is an example of an allegorical object. Also be sure to relate its importance to the events of the poem.
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