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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 does the story open?
(a) When the King is mourning the dispicable behavior of his wife.
(b) When the King is mourning the death of his wife.
(c) When the King is mourning his wife who is dying.
(d) When the King is mourning the disappearance of his wife.

2. Urizen is where?
(a) In heaven.
(b) In a Void.
(c) In his home.
(d) In the dark fiery regions.

3. In the poem, Summer, each stanza is progressively ______________ than the one before it.
(a) More simplistic.
(b) More convoluted.
(c) Longer.
(d) Shorter.

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

5. Here the author has created another work designed to be what?
(a) A guide to the previous sections.
(b) A piece of Blake's work.
(c) A single thought.
(d) Complete in itself.

Short Answer Questions

1. This lore includes the perception that in a healthy Albion, with the Bards, Druids and mighty oak groves, the power is far greater than that strange, foreign land that harbors what city?

2. Los is here the Master of the furnaces, the tortures caused by wrath and rage. This Los is described as being a living man even though he is an immortal. Los also has or functions as what?

3. This is an entirely _____________ creative work by the author and include his visual art (he both draws and etches).

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

5. How does this work begin?

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