Quiz 3: Coleridge & Byron “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” “She Walks in Beauty” and “When We Two Parted”

1. “The Rime of Ancient Mariner”: Which of the following is NOT the poem's messages? Nature is not always benevolent. The mariner has to tell his story to the wedding guest in order to accomplish his mission. Human beings (e.g. the crew on the ship) tend to view nature from their selfish perspectives. The albatross represent a connection one can have on nature. <POWERCLICK><QUESTYPE>QUIZ</QUESTYPE><OPTION>4</OPTION><ANSWER>2</ANSWER><POINT>2</POINT><TIME>60</TIME><DIFFICULTY>3</DIFFICULTY></POWERCLICK>

2.What do these stanza mean? Choose the wrong answer. The albatross began to be avenged. The repetition suggests the pervasiveness of the curse. The ship is stuck at South Pole. The painted ship suggests a form of deadly beauty. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Nor any drop to drink. <POWERCLICK><QUESTYPE>QUIZ</QUESTYPE><OPTION>4</OPTION><ANSWER>4</ANSWER><POINT>2</POINT><TIME>60</TIME><DIFFICULTY>3</DIFFICULTY></POWERCLICK>

3. What happens next (after this stanza)? The dead crew rose up and sailed the ship. Life-in-Death won over Death to control the mariner. The mariner blessed the water snakes. The water snakes carried the ship north. Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watch'd the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they rear'd, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. <POWERCLICK><QUESTYPE>QUIZ</QUESTYPE><OPTION>4</OPTION><ANSWER>3</ANSWER><POINT>2</POINT><TIME>60</TIME><DIFFICULTY>3</DIFFICULTY></POWERCLICK>

4. How does the wedding guest respond to the story he listens to? He is all afraid and intimidated. He finds it funny and laughs it away. He cannot understand it. He becomes sadder and wiser. <POWERCLICK><QUESTYPE>QUIZ</QUESTYPE><OPTION>4</OPTION><ANSWER>4</ANSWER><POINT>2</POINT><TIME>60</TIME><DIFFICULTY>3</DIFFICULTY></POWERCLICK>

5. Which poems ends in the following stanza? “When We Two Parted” Immortality Ode “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” “She Walks in Beauty” In secret we met: In silence I grieve That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. <POWERCLICK><QUESTYPE>QUIZ</QUESTYPE><OPTION>4</OPTION><ANSWER>1</ANSWER><POINT>2</POINT><TIME>60</TIME><DIFFICULTY>3</DIFFICULTY></POWERCLICK>

Group Activities 1 She Walks in Beauty (Cloze) 2-3 Jessica 2-3 She Walks in Beauty & When We Two Parted (vocabulary) Cindy Cara 4 Childe Harold Canto 3 first few stanzas (paraphrase) Stanzas 1-7 Wesley 5-8 Childe Harold Canto 3 --analysis of stanzas 43, 45, 89, 96 Geoffrey Vivian Cynthia Wanda