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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Smyrna.
(b) Babylon.
(c) Assyria.
(d) Moab.

2. Prior to the entire group there is a short poem that does what?
(a) Extols the virtues of mutual compassion.
(b) Extols the virtues of mutual love.
(c) Extols the virtues of mutual interests.
(d) Extols the virtues of mutual forgiveness.

3. What do these books perpetuate?
(a) The ideas and theme that have been introduced in the preceding sections.
(b) Blake's new and radical ideas.
(c) The ideas of many at this time in history.
(d) The beliefs of most Englishmen.

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

5. He writes of the need to give and receive what?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Love.
(c) Forgiveness.
(d) Hope.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two characters figure largely in these books?

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?

3. How do these repetitions affect the tale?

4. What concludes the first section of this poem?

5. Who is Mnetha?

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