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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Mnetha?
(a) The woman who is with Heva and Har.
(b) The King's wife.
(c) The woman who takes the King back home.
(d) The King's servant.

2. Blake clearly has hope for what between the sexes?
(a) Equality and fairness.
(b) Peace and friendship.
(c) Disagreement.
(d) Jealousy and hate.

3. The artist has combined a strong technical accuracy with what?
(a) A sense of style.
(b) A sense of drama.
(c) An ability to entice readers.
(d) An artistic quality.

4. Blake delves into the difference between Christ's resurrected body of spirit and what?
(a) The heavens.
(b) The generative and vegetative world.
(c) The underworld.
(d) The natural world.

5. According to Blake, from where does all Poetic Genius come?
(a) One source.
(b) Our conscience mind.
(c) Many sources.
(d) God.

6. Of what are the etchings?
(a) Children.
(b) Angels.
(c) People in various stages of life.
(d) People from various cultures.

7. The poetry is akin to some of his preceding works in what way?
(a) He has written a story in thick lines of perfectly metered poetic verse.
(b) The subject matter is the same.
(c) The characters within the poetry are reminscent of previously-discussed characters.
(d) He has written lines of poetry in a style all his own.

8. What does this set of verses describe?
(a) Blake's life.
(b) A sequence of events.
(c) A list of random thoughts.
(d) A sequence of emotions.

9. What word might best describe the presentation?
(a) Interesting.
(b) Educational.
(c) Unique.
(d) Melodramatic.

10. The King calls his sons before the palace in his sorrow. Why might be the reason for him quickly turning darker and more symbolic?
(a) His young are equally as sick.
(b) His young are of no use to him.
(c) His young are just as dispicable.
(d) His young do not care.

11. How will one know when a work has unity?
(a) This will show in its parts.
(b) The work will be well-accepted by others.
(c) The poet will just know.
(d) The elements will be balanced.

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

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

14. What two characters figure largely in these books?
(a) Angels and demons.
(b) Urizen and Los.
(c) God and Satan.
(d) Uri and Losita.

15. Regarding what Blake states, how is it different from the first illuminated print?
(a) It is an entire short poem.
(b) It is a long essay.
(c) It is an epic.
(d) It is a single statement.

Short Answer Questions

1. The label for this section of work is _________.

2. What modern technology has been applied in order to make discovery and rediscovery of some parts of William Blake's artworks possible?

3. He writes of the need to give and receive what?

4. The increasing power of England in the modern world readily overshadows what earthly city's might?

5. Blake asserts here, as he did earlier, that the Divine Body is what?

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