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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. How will one know when a work has unity?
(a) The elements will be balanced.
(b) This will show in its parts.
(c) The work will be well-accepted by others.
(d) The poet will just know.

2. How many of these poems taken on their own or in the small groups are sufficient to constitute an entire epic?
(a) Three.
(b) None.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

3. The poem dedicated to Autumn has how many line stanzas?
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

4. It becomes clear Blake has set forth how many different arguments?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

5. What concludes the first section of this poem?
(a) The father sends his sons away.
(b) The father and one or more sons dig the grave for the mother and bury her.
(c) The father attends his wife's funeral.
(d) The father wanders off.

Short Answer Questions

1. "She drave the Females away from Los / and ____________________________." (p. 305).

2. Why is the answer to Number 95 happening?

3. Blake takes readers to this spiritual space that somehow defies normal comprehension by giving what impression?

4. What two characters figure largely in these books?

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

(see the answer key)

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