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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Blake also made what that he hoped to sell as art?
(a) Sculptures.
(b) Paintings.
(c) Prints.
(d) Photographs.

2. This theme is handled during what?
(a) The first few poems.
(b) The Four Zoas.
(c) The last poem.
(d) The first poem.

3. The poem Fair Elenor functions as a segue into the ones entitled ___________.
(a) Love.
(b) Song.
(c) Dance.
(d) Hope.

4. Blake, while not mimicking the classical poet _________________, is certainly carrying on the tradition of excellence in poetry.
(a) Callinus.
(b) Theocritus.
(c) Homer.
(d) Aeschylus.

5. This often includes a greater discussion of what?
(a) His hobbies.
(b) His beliefs.
(c) His family.
(d) His art.

6. Those poems dedicated to the same star, in evening and then in morning, are only how many stanzas long?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

7. Much of the rest of this chapter is dedicated to what?
(a) Blake's visual arts.
(b) Blake's poetry.
(c) Blake's short stories.
(d) Blake's epics.

8. What is "I was buried near this Dike / that my friends may weep as much as they like"?
(a) A portion of an epic tale.
(b) An epitaph.
(c) A line from a love poem.
(d) A line from a short story.

9. "She drave the Females away from Los / and ____________________________." (p. 305).
(a) Los drave all the Females from her away.
(b) Los drave all the Males from her away.
(c) She drave all the Females away from herself.
(d) She drave all the Males away from Los.

10. These writings start as what?
(a) Poetic verse rather than prose.
(b) Iambic pentameter rather than hexameter.
(c) Prose rather than poetic verse.
(d) Couplets rather than ottava rima.

11. Blake earned a good portion of his living by what?
(a) Painting murals.
(b) Designing clothing.
(c) Teaching art.
(d) Commissioned pieces.

12. In the poem, Summer, each stanza is progressively ______________ than the one before it.
(a) Shorter.
(b) More convoluted.
(c) Longer.
(d) More simplistic.

13. Their relation to the mystical and the divine also sets them apart from what in their form?
(a) The epicurean.
(b) The fairy tale.
(c) The epic.
(d) The old wives' tale.

14. They are _________________ related to the copious writings involving God, Satan, Urizen, Beulah, the Furnaces and the clouds.
(a) Directly.
(b) Not directly.
(c) Barely directly.
(d) Somewhat directly.

15. Here again there are many what?
(a) Short stories.
(b) Sets of poems.
(c) Epic tales.
(d) Individual poems.

Short Answer Questions

1. The poems include one titled ____________.

2. He uses his powers to do what?

3. Why is the answer to Number 95 happening?

4. At this starting point, Blake presents how many arguments?

5. This begins as a ____________ the preceding summary chapter.

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