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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Book 1 : Chapter 3, Milton.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does this section of Blake's work affect readers?
(a) It is interesting and informative.
(b) It is exciting.
(c) It strikes fear into their hearts.
(d) It is boring and uninteresting.

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

4. To whom does Blake often cry?
(a) Satan.
(b) God.
(c) His mother.
(d) Jesus.

5. What is metaphysics?
(a) Those aspects of reality that go beyond physics.
(b) Middle-level physics.
(c) The basics of physics.
(d) Literary physics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is William Blake's first prophecy called?

2. How is the term book used accurately to describe Blake's work?

3. What two characters figure largely in these books?

4. Blake says there is something about the resurrection that relates to the reality of the Imagination and what else?

5. This set of verses describes the struggle of what?

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