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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Readers will recall earlier that there was one set of ____________ included along with inscriptions.
(a) Etchings.
(b) Photographs.
(c) Sculptures.
(d) Paintings.

2. What are mentioned more than once?
(a) Altars.
(b) Candles.
(c) Eucharist cups.
(d) Pews.

3. To the Muses is built of what?
(a) Rhyming quatrains.
(b) Iambic pentameter.
(c) Hexameters.
(d) Couplets.

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

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

6. After this charming piece, there comes another set of poems. These ones are called what?
(a) Love Songs.
(b) Love and Ballads.
(c) Famous Ballads.
(d) Songs and Ballads.

7. "...any loving woman is sure to be loved [regardless of her physical form]...so beneficial and highly valued" is what?
(a) The love of woman.
(b) The need for woman.
(c) The desire for woman.
(d) The power of woman.

8. Many of the other inscriptions are captions intended to join ___________.
(a) An etching.
(b) A photograph.
(c) A print.
(d) A painting.

9. The author then moves on to extol the virtues of what kind of love?
(a) Married love.
(b) Parental love.
(c) Old love.
(d) New love.

10. What constitutes a major change in the writings of William Blake?
(a) Fragments of stories.
(b) Epics.
(c) Poetical sketches.
(d) Essays.

11. Here the author begins by providing a description to a client of what?
(a) Blake's stories.
(b) Blake's poetry.
(c) Blake's visual art.
(d) Blake's music.

12. The opening scene is of a small gathering where there is what taking place?
(a) An argument.
(b) An auction.
(c) An intellectual conversation.
(d) A battle.

13. Here the verses continue with their what?
(a) Heptameters.
(b) Pentameters.
(c) Hexameters.
(d) Decimeters.

14. What is considered significant during these parts of Blake's writing?
(a) War.
(b) The social milieu.
(c) Upheaval.
(d) The sell of products.

15. In this particular case, the set constituted what?
(a) A story.
(b) A fairytale.
(c) An epic.
(d) A written poem.

Short Answer Questions

1. These inscriptions are captions intended to join this art form for what reason?

2. How many events take place in each of these sections of the poems?

3. It is followed by another story--- this one is about a man called _____________, King of Norway.

4. The author plants _____________ truths into the verses of the second page.

5. During this part of the story Urizen does what?

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