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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what spiritual transformation does Blake discuss here?
(a) The changing of water into wine.
(b) A human being into the incorruptible spiritual form Jesus Christ exemplified and taught was possible.
(c) The changing of wine into the blood of Christ.
(d) Jesus Christ into a the Holy Spirit.

2. There is a small amount of commentary accompanying these. The first is about whose poetry?
(a) Mimnermus'.
(b) Aristophanes'.
(c) Homer's.
(d) Herodotus'.

3. What is the setting?
(a) France.
(b) America.
(c) Albion.
(d) England.

4. In Blake's mentions of other lands, what land does that include?
(a) America.
(b) China.
(c) Australia.
(d) South Africa.

5. How can readers uninterested in Blake's spiritual vision enjoy it as pure literature?
(a) Due to his popularity.
(b) Due to his vivid images.
(c) Due to his descriptions of characters.
(d) Due to his exciting subject matter.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author uses numerous references to what at this time?

2. Their relation to the mystical and the divine also sets them apart from what in their form?

3. The poem Fair Elenor functions as a segue into the ones entitled ___________.

4. He uses his powers to do what?

5. The author plants _____________ truths into the verses of the second page.

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