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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 do the boards of the Ship do?
2. What adjective describes the eye of the Mariner?
3. What is the name of the learned Jew?
4. What color is the ice?
5. How does the Albatross die?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. Why might it be significant that the crew cannot speak as part of their punishment?
3. Is the crew superstitious? If so, give two examples.
4. Why are the notes important to the poem?
5. Explain the metaphor used in Part IV, regarding the Moon and stars: "they enter unannounced, as lords that are certainly expected, and yet there is a silent joy at their arrival".
6. Why is it important for man to remain objective in his studies of the two Natures?
7. Where and why is the Ship stranded?
8. What is difficult about believing in invisible Natures, according to Thomas Burnet and Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
9. 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"?
10. What does it mean to be "vigilant for truth" and to "maintain proportion?"
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Present a coherent analysis of the character of Wedding-Guest. Important things to consider include:
1) His unwillingness to listen but compulsion to do so;
2) His fearful interruptions;
3) His actions at the end of the story (not attending the wedding);
4) Waking up the following morning "sadder and wiser."
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay on the theme of sin throughout the poem. Analyze how it is significant to the plot and the meaning. Be sure to include the sins of both the Mariner and the crew, how sin in the natural world relates to the supernatural world, and how those sins effected their fates.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze the character of the Hermit. What role does he play? How is he unique from the other characters in the story? What aspects of human nature does he signify? Does he have any importance beyond the natural world?
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