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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The poem dedicated to Autumn has how many line stanzas?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Six.
(d) Three.
2. Here again there are many what?
(a) Epic tales.
(b) Individual poems.
(c) Sets of poems.
(d) Short stories.
3. "She drave the Females away from Los / and ____________________________." (p. 305).
(a) She drave all the Males away from Los.
(b) She drave all the Females away from herself.
(c) Los drave all the Males from her away.
(d) Los drave all the Females from her away.
4. This theme is handled during what?
(a) The last poem.
(b) The first few poems.
(c) The Four Zoas.
(d) The first poem.
5. Describe the images the author creates.
(a) Plain.
(b) Deep and vivid.
(c) Boring.
(d) Typical.
6. Urizen is where?
(a) In his home.
(b) In the dark fiery regions.
(c) In heaven.
(d) In a Void.
7. In this particular case, the set constituted what?
(a) A written poem.
(b) An epic.
(c) A story.
(d) A fairytale.
8. Much of the rest of this chapter is dedicated to what?
(a) Blake's short stories.
(b) Blake's epics.
(c) Blake's visual arts.
(d) Blake's poetry.
9. There are individual stanzas that are how many lines long or longer?
(a) 65.
(b) 35.
(c) 45.
(d) 55.
10. So too does the fact that the subject matter is a combination of truth and _______________.
(a) Fantasy.
(b) Fairness.
(c) Faith.
(d) Love.
11. With respect to William Blake's ____________, there were at least two kinds.
(a) Storytelling.
(b) Painting.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Epics.
12. These writings start as what?
(a) Iambic pentameter rather than hexameter.
(b) Prose rather than poetic verse.
(c) Poetic verse rather than prose.
(d) Couplets rather than ottava rima.
13. What is "I was buried near this Dike / that my friends may weep as much as they like"?
(a) A line from a love poem.
(b) A line from a short story.
(c) A portion of an epic tale.
(d) An epitaph.
14. In the poem, Summer, each stanza is progressively ______________ than the one before it.
(a) More simplistic.
(b) Shorter.
(c) More convoluted.
(d) Longer.
15. Blake, while not mimicking the classical poet _________________, is certainly carrying on the tradition of excellence in poetry.
(a) Callinus.
(b) Theocritus.
(c) Aeschylus.
(d) Homer.
Short Answer Questions
1. The divine realm and the mind are united in and by what?
2. Why have the inscriptions been included?
3. Blake earned a good portion of his living by what?
4. What does Blake do to promote his artwork?
5. It is followed by another story--- this one is about a man called _____________, King of Norway.
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