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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. In Blake's mentions of other lands, what land does that include?
(a) South Africa.
(b) America.
(c) China.
(d) Australia.

2. What modern technology has been applied in order to make discovery and rediscovery of some parts of William Blake's artworks possible?
(a) MRI.
(b) Carbon dating.
(c) Infra-red photography.
(d) Cat scan.

3. How does this section of Blake's work affect readers?
(a) It is exciting.
(b) It strikes fear into their hearts.
(c) It is interesting and informative.
(d) It is boring and uninteresting.

4. Blake says there is something about the resurrection that relates to the reality of the Imagination and what else?
(a) The mind as spirit.
(b) The mind as a being.
(c) The body as spirit.
(d) The body as an entity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Here the verses continue with their what?

2. This is amended, thematically, shortly thereafter with, "Thus Urizen spoke collected himself in awful pride / space / Art though visionary of Jesus the soft delusion of Eternity / Lo I am __________________________________." (p. 307).

3. How is the term book used accurately to describe Blake's work?

4. What is "I was buried near this Dike / that my friends may weep as much as they like"?

5. During these chapters, William Blake explains the Spectre further to readers. Here, he tells people that this entity is what?

(see the answer key)

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