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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is metaphysics?
(a) Middle-level physics.
(b) Literary physics.
(c) Those aspects of reality that go beyond physics.
(d) The basics of physics.

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

5. Readers are advised that to take in the full sense of this section, it might be best to do what?
(a) Read this slowly.
(b) Read this more than once.
(c) Read this with a professor.
(d) Read this out loud.

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

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

8. How have Blake's works been arranged?
(a) By alphabetical order.
(b) By chronological order.
(c) By the type of writing that they are.
(d) From the most well-known to the least.

9. 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.

10. How does the story open?
(a) When the King is mourning his wife who is dying.
(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 the disappearance of his wife.

11. Blake says there is something about the resurrection that relates to the reality of the Imagination and what else?
(a) The mind as a being.
(b) The body as spirit.
(c) The body as an entity.
(d) The mind as spirit.

12. How can this entire work be best understood?
(a) As a cultural and psychological piece.
(b) As a study of a group of people.
(c) As a historical interpretation.
(d) As a study of those from Albion.

13. What fundamental division does Blake believe exists?
(a) There will be those who go to heaven and those to purgatory.
(b) There will be those resurrected into their incorruptible forms, and those who die to eternity.
(c) There will be those who physically die and those who spiritually die.
(d) There will be those who become saints and those who do not.

14. 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.

15. 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?
(a) God.
(b) A Spectre.
(c) Satan.
(d) A Demon.

Short Answer Questions

1. How might one describe the language at this point?

2. When the new people feed him, what does he claim?

3. What does the author repeat?

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

5. What is William Blake's first prophecy called?

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