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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. England was quite strong as a nation during Blake's lifetime and only became more so before it waned. However, Blake chooses to employ what aspect of the country as well?
(a) The ancient strength.
(b) Its current strength.
(c) Its future strength.
(d) The strength of its recent past.

4. What is a natural side effect of employing this aspect?
(a) Blake contradicts Christianity.
(b) Blake argues against religion.
(c) Blake believes England is weak.
(d) Blake conjures the powers of Druidry.

5. From what is knowledge derived?
(a) Family and friends.
(b) School and instructors.
(c) Experimentation and experience.
(d) Parents and the community.

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

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

8. How does the story open?
(a) When the King is mourning the death of his wife.
(b) When the King is mourning the disappearance of his wife.
(c) When the King is mourning the dispicable behavior of his wife.
(d) When the King is mourning his wife who is dying.

9. On one page the author is citing Albion and ranting about delusions, when a few pages later he connects the two by setting Albion, Canaan and __________ together in just a few short lines of poetry.
(a) Assyria.
(b) Babylon.
(c) Moab.
(d) Smyrna.

10. What is Albion?
(a) An ancient Mayan civilization.
(b) A city in New York.
(c) The ancient name of Blake's homeland, England.
(d) A school in England.

11. Blake was a _________________ by profession.
(a) Printer and painter.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Construction worker.
(d) Author and poet.

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

13. How does the author share his worldliness?
(a) Through his plays.
(b) Through his speeches.
(c) Through his art.
(d) Through his pamphlets.

14. 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 Earth's.
(c) Albion's.
(d) The Void's.

15. He does repeatedly discuss the troubles caused by what?
(a) The co-mingling of love with jealousy.
(b) The intelligence of women.
(c) The inequality of the sexes.
(d) The lack of understanding between men and women.

Short Answer Questions

1. This chapter of the book summary covers what?

2. Blake clearly has hope for what between the sexes?

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

4. 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?

5. This is an entirely _____________ creative work by the author and include his visual art (he both draws and etches).

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