Who
Is
Excited
To
Learn?
100

How is the wedding guest related to the bridegroom?

What is next of kin

100

Why is the wedding guest compelled to listen to the mariner’s story?

What is the Mariner grabs his arm

100

What is the current month? Spell it.

What is February 

100

What does the Mariner mean by, “water, water, everywhere, and all the boards did shrink; water, water, everywhere nor any drop to drink?”

What is you can't drink sea water 

100

Why was the Albatross hung around the Mariner’s neck?

What is penance 

200

What event is happening as the Mariner tells his story?

What is a wedding 

200

Why must the Mariner keep retelling his tale?

What is to do penance 

200

What are the shipmates’ feelings towards the Ancient Mariner after he kills the Albatross?

What are mad and worried 

200

What act did the Mariner commit that could be considered horrible and tragic to the crew?

He killed the albatross 

200

How long was this story?  

What is too long, or 19 pages. 

300

How is the Mariner saved and finally able to get home again?

What is the crew reanimates and sails the ship home

300

Where is the Mariner's ship located geographically? 

What is near the south pole 

300

What is a kirk?  

What is a church 

300

What happens to the men sailing with the Mariner?  

They all die 

300

How did the Albatross help the sailors?  

What is it led them out of the ice 

400

How long was the Ancient Mariner alone with the dead sailors? 

What is seven days and seven nights 

400

What horror is discovered by the crew of the Mariner’s ship? (What is discovered about the other ship?)

What is it is death coming for them 

400

What does the wedding guest think the Ancient Mariner is once he tells his story? 

What is a ghost

400

Why is the Mariner left alive? 

To live with his guilt 

400

What is the prize to be won in the dice game between Death and Life-in-Death?

What is the lives of the crew on the ship 

500

What does the sun and moon symbolize?

What is they symbolize the competing influence of the Mariner's journey and on the world. 

500

What is the symbolism of eyes throughout the poem?  

What is eyes are a different way of communication; understanding things that there aren't words to express what is being seen.

500

What did the Mariner dream was in the buckets?  What happened when he woke up? 

What is dew and it rained 

500

What is the Ancient Mariner not able to do during the seven days and seven nights?  

What is pray 

500

The Mariner curses the “slimy things” at first.  Why does he then bless them?  What is the symbolism of the Albatross falling from around his neck?

What is he realizes that all living things matter. The Albatross falling from his neck could symbolize forgiveness. 

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