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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Book 2 : Chapter 1, For the Sexes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Albion?
(a) A school in England.
(b) The ancient name of Blake's homeland, England.
(c) A city in New York.
(d) An ancient Mayan civilization.

2. England was quite strong as a nation during Blake's lifetime and only became more so before it waned. However, Blake chooses to employ what aspect of the country as well?
(a) Its current strength.
(b) The strength of its recent past.
(c) The ancient strength.
(d) Its future strength.

3. This is an entirely _____________ creative work by the author and include his visual art (he both draws and etches).
(a) Odd.
(b) Different.
(c) Similar.
(d) Useless.

4. On one page the author is citing Albion and ranting about delusions, when a few pages later he connects the two by setting Albion, Canaan and __________ together in just a few short lines of poetry.
(a) Assyria.
(b) Babylon.
(c) Smyrna.
(d) Moab.

5. Here we have what chapters of Blake's Jerusalem?
(a) 5 and 6.
(b) 2 and 3.
(c) 4 and 5.
(d) 3 and 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Blake, from where does all Poetic Genius come?

2. Blake clearly has hope for what between the sexes?

3. To what classic Renaissance poet are two of Blake's book related?

4. Blake is one of the most famous artists in recent history to have done what during much of his adult life?

5. How might one describe Blake's set of verses?

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