Rime of the Ancient Mariner Review

What service does the Hermit perform for the Mariner?

• He gives him food and new clothes.

• He hears his confession and gives him absolution for his sin.

• He takes him in until the Mariner can find a job on another ship.

• He helps him file an insurance claim for the loss of the ship.

The author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is

• William Shakespeare.

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

• John Milton.

• William Blake.

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

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.

The setting at the beginning and end of the poem is the same wedding celebration. This is a clue that "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a ....

• short story

• epic poem

• frame narrative

• novella

The Mariner is only able to pray after

• he sees the beauty of the sea snakes and spontaneously blesses them.

• he cuts off the albatross and throws it overboard.

• he figures out that the Polar Spirit is angry with him

• his body is taken over by an angelic spirit.

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

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.

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

The fate of the Mariner is won by

• Death

• The Polar Spirit

• Mother Nature

• Life in Death