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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. How is the term book used accurately to describe Blake's work?
(a) It is written in paragraph form.
(b) It is bound in a cover.
(c) It refers to the completeness of subject matter.
(d) It indicates the length of the work.

2. How are these sets of poems quite famous?
(a) They are the inspiration for most of today's best poets.
(b) They have been used, for some cases, for over a century in academic institutions.
(c) They are still read in every public school in England.
(d) They, in some cases, have been studied for over a decade in academic institutions.

3. What do these books perpetuate?
(a) The beliefs of most Englishmen.
(b) Blake's new and radical ideas.
(c) The ideas of many at this time in history.
(d) The ideas and theme that have been introduced in the preceding sections.

4. What does the author repeat?
(a) Certain thoughts.
(b) Certain places.
(c) Certain names.
(d) Certain thematic elements.

5. After those are a string of further poems that seem designed how?
(a) To explain the previous poems.
(b) To support one another.
(c) To be taken on their own.
(d) To support the previous poems.

Short Answer Questions

1. The opening scene is of a small gathering where there is what taking place?

2. In the first section, Blake sets forth arguments and principles pertaining to his beliefs and perception of what?

3. They are _________________ related to the copious writings involving God, Satan, Urizen, Beulah, the Furnaces and the clouds.

4. According to Blake, from where does all Poetic Genius come?

5. Of what are the etchings?

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