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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. There is a small amount of commentary accompanying these. The first is about whose poetry?
(a) Aristophanes'.
(b) Herodotus'.
(c) Mimnermus'.
(d) Homer's.

2. Blake attempts to explain what's connection to feminine and female "space" is in contrast to male or masculine "space"?
(a) The Spectre's.
(b) The Void's.
(c) The Earth's.
(d) Albion's.

3. The label for this section of work is _________.
(a) Boring.
(b) Useless.
(c) Encouraging.
(d) Interesting.

4. What does Blake state?
(a) He is from Albion.
(b) There is no argument.
(c) He has preconceived notions regarding Albion.
(d) There is an argument.

5. How might one describe the language at this point?
(a) Very unusual.
(b) Very colorful.
(c) Very typical.
(d) Very interesting.

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

7. What is meant by faculties?
(a) The operations of the mind.
(b) The abilities of a group of people.
(c) Those who work in a facility.
(d) Those who teach in an educational system.

8. It becomes clear Blake has set forth how many different arguments?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

9. Blake asserts here, as he did earlier, that the Divine Body is what?
(a) The Imagination and Creativity.
(b) The Brain and Heart.
(c) The Heart and Soul.
(d) The Imagination & the Poetic Genius.

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

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

12. Shortly, the sad and perhaps frightened, paranoid or suspicious old man is speaking of what?
(a) Angels and saints.
(b) God and heaven.
(c) Serpents and curses.
(d) Satan and demons.

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What fundamental division does Blake believe exists?

2. To what classic Renaissance poet are two of Blake's book related?

3. Who is Mnetha?

4. Does this theme continue throughout this sequence of images?

5. Los is here the Master of the furnaces, the tortures caused by wrath and rage. This Los is described as being a living man even though he is an immortal. Los also has or functions as what?

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