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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 6, Book 6 : Chapter 2, Satiric Verses.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Describe the stanzas of the first of these.
(a) Interesting.
(b) Simplistic.
(c) Ornate.
(d) Overdone.

2. Blake asserts that the sign of great poetry is what?
(a) Each poem is a part of a larger entity.
(b) Each poem is written in a different style.
(c) Each poem is complete within itself.
(d) Each poem is a collaboration by various artists.

3. During this part of the story Urizen does what?
(a) Ascends.
(b) Falls.
(c) Dies.
(d) Descends.

4. This set of writings is listed in the Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake under Roman numeral ____.
(a) IV.
(b) X.
(c) IX.
(d) V.

5. What is epistemology?
(a) The study of words.
(b) A study of the surface of something.
(c) An inflammation of the epidermis.
(d) Knowledge, what it is and how we know what we know.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting?

2. Of what are the etchings?

3. How many events take place in each of these sections of the poems?

4. Describe how each illustration has been reproduced and printed?

5. Who is Mnetha?

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