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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The story continues to move along in its _____________.
(a) Structured path.
(b) Simplicity.
(c) Confines.
(d) Complexity.

3. To whom does Blake often cry?
(a) Satan.
(b) God.
(c) Jesus.
(d) His mother.

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

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

6. The next portion commences with what?
(a) The grief-stricken King dies.
(b) The grief-stricken King refuses to leave his wife.
(c) The grief-stricken King wandering off.
(d) The grief-stricken King searches for his sons.

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

8. 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.

9. How might one describe Blake's set of verses?
(a) Extremely visual and visionary.
(b) Strange and misleading.
(c) Difficult to understand and confusing.
(d) Boring and tedious.

10. 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) The strength of its recent past.
(c) Its future strength.
(d) Its current strength.

11. In Blake's mentions of other lands, what land does that include?
(a) South Africa.
(b) Australia.
(c) China.
(d) America.

12. Here the author has created another work designed to be what?
(a) A single thought.
(b) A guide to the previous sections.
(c) Complete in itself.
(d) A piece of Blake's work.

13. The author uses numerous references to what at this time?
(a) Angels.
(b) Cherubs.
(c) Deities.
(d) God.

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

15. When the new people feed him, what does he claim?
(a) The people of whom he is father and was the King are searching for him.
(b) The people of whom he is the father and was the King are all wicked ones.
(c) He is a messenger from God.
(d) He does not know who he is or from where he comes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Prior to the entire group there is a short poem that does what?

2. What is meant by faculties?

3. What is the setting?

4. Blake asserts that the sign of great poetry is what?

5. Does Blake feel that the resurrection is true?

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