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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Book 1 : Chapter 4, Jerusalem.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How might one describe Blake's set of verses?
(a) Extremely visual and visionary.
(b) Difficult to understand and confusing.
(c) Boring and tedious.
(d) Strange and misleading.

2. According to Blake, from where does all Poetic Genius come?
(a) God.
(b) Many sources.
(c) One source.
(d) Our conscience mind.

3. From what is knowledge derived?
(a) Family and friends.
(b) School and instructors.
(c) Parents and the community.
(d) Experimentation and experience.

4. This set of verses describes the struggle of what?
(a) Good and evil amongst those dwelling upon the Earth.
(b) Love and hate amongst those dwelling upon the Earth.
(c) Love and jealousy amongst those dwelling upon the Earth.
(d) Good and evil amongst those dwelling in the Heavens.

5. How is the term book used accurately to describe Blake's work?
(a) It is bound in a cover.
(b) It indicates the length of the work.
(c) It is written in paragraph form.
(d) It refers to the completeness of subject matter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is epistemology?

2. It becomes clear Blake has set forth how many different arguments?

3. How can this entire work be best understood?

4. What is Albion?

5. How can readers uninterested in Blake's spiritual vision enjoy it as pure literature?

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