Rime of the Ancient Mariner Review

The author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is

• William Shakespeare.

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

• John Milton.

• William Blake.

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The setting at the beginning and end of the poem is

• The Mariner's ship

• the open sea

• The street outside the wedding celebration

• inside a large banquet hall

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The Wedding-Guest is compelled to stay and listen to the Mariner because he comes under the spell of

• his deep voice

• his glittering eye

• his rough, haggard appearance

• his skinny, brown hand

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The ship’s crew sees the albatross mostly as a bird

• that brought them good luck

• that brought them bad luck

• that represents death

• that represents peace

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The Mariner’s crime is that he

• killed a member of the crew.

• killed the albatross for food.

• killed the albatross for no reason.

• was unable to pray.

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Why does the crew hang the albatross around the Mariner’s neck?

• To punish him for his crime

• To appease Death and Life-in-Death

• To offer a sacrifice to the nature spirits

• To honor him for his great deed

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The Mariner is shocked when the “skeleton ship” approaches because

• all of its crew are dead.

• a wind blows on the ghost ship but not on the Mariner’s ship.

• the skeleton ship consists only of a frame with no planking and moves without wind.

• the ship rides on the backs of a pair enormous sea monsters.

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Who are the two figures seen on the skeleton ship?

• Death and Life-in-Death

• The two polar spirits

• The devil and his bride

• The Pilot and his son

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___________ can be described as a woman with golden hair, red lips, and white-like-leprosy skin.

• Death

• Life in Death (Specter Woman)

• The Polar Spirits

• The Hermit

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The fate of the Mariner is won by

• Death

• The Polar Spirit

• Mother Nature

• Life in Death

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