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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 7, Book 7 : Chapter 2, Misc. & Letters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Part of the story line is that there is work that takes six thousand years to complete. Who participates in this?
(a) The evil ones.
(b) The good ones.
(c) God alone.
(d) Both the evil and good ones.

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).
(a) God the Almighty and the Father of our Savior, Lord Jesus Christ.
(b) God the terrible destroyer and not the Savior.
(c) God the Father and not the destroyer.
(d) Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

3. Their relation to the mystical and the divine also sets them apart from what in their form?
(a) The old wives' tale.
(b) The epic.
(c) The epicurean.
(d) The fairy tale.

4. What is William Blake's first prophecy called?
(a) Prophecy for Australia.
(b) Prophecy for South Africa.
(c) Prophecy for America.
(d) Prophecy for China.

5. Blake is one of the most famous artists in recent history to have done what during much of his adult life?
(a) Worked as a poet.
(b) Lost most of his income.
(c) Worked hard.
(d) Held a day job.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why have the inscriptions been included?

2. After this charming piece, there comes another set of poems. These ones are called what?

3. How does the author share his worldliness?

4. The evil ones in the poetic stories have been those who are ___________ the idea that the mind has greater power than what comes to be presented to the human senses as objects of the world.

5. The poetry is akin to some of his preceding works in what way?

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