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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 do not care.
(b) His young are equally as sick.
(c) His young are just as dispicable.
(d) His young are of no use to him.

4. Prior to the entire group there is a short poem that does what?
(a) Extols the virtues of mutual love.
(b) Extols the virtues of mutual interests.
(c) Extols the virtues of mutual compassion.
(d) Extols the virtues of mutual forgiveness.

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

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

7. How do these repetitions affect the tale?
(a) The author is able to express his opinions through this tale.
(b) The author is able to explain the tale to readers.
(c) The author is able to grow the tale while making the most of what he has invented so far.
(d) The author is able to aid the reader in visualizing the location of this tale.

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

9. This first prophecy features what?
(a) A red Orc as a male character.
(b) A red Orc as a female character.
(c) A black Orc as a female character.
(d) A black Orc as a male character.

10. To what classic Renaissance poet are two of Blake's book related?
(a) Herbert.
(b) Milton.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Marlowe.

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

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

13. This set of verses describes the struggle of what?
(a) Good and evil amongst those dwelling in the Heavens.
(b) Good and evil amongst those dwelling upon the Earth.
(c) Love and jealousy amongst those dwelling upon the Earth.
(d) Love and hate amongst those dwelling upon the Earth.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Regarding what Blake states, how is it different from the first illuminated print?

2. What does Blake state?

3. 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.

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

5. Blake delves into the difference between Christ's resurrected body of spirit and what?

(see the answer keys)

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