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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the Mad Song, there are two simply called what?
(a) Love.
(b) Faith.
(c) Dance.
(d) Song.

2. As noted above there are those which are poems designed to accompany what?
(a) His acrylic paintings.
(b) His oil paintings.
(c) His statues.
(d) His water colors.

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

4. The poems include one titled ____________.
(a) To Love.
(b) To Mother.
(c) To Spring.
(d) To Hope.

5. Describe the stanzas of the first of these.
(a) Ornate.
(b) Interesting.
(c) Simplistic.
(d) Overdone.

6. So too does the fact that the subject matter is a combination of truth and _______________.
(a) Love.
(b) Fairness.
(c) Fantasy.
(d) Faith.

7. Do these inscriptions fall into the same pattern wherein a group of them adds up to make a poem?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) Not at first.
(d) Probably.

8. 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.

9. The poem dedicated to Autumn has how many line stanzas?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Six.

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

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

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

13. How are these sets of poems quite famous?
(a) They are still read in every public school in England.
(b) They are the inspiration for most of today's best poets.
(c) They have been used, for some cases, for over a century in academic institutions.
(d) They, in some cases, have been studied for over a decade in academic institutions.

14. How many events take place in each of these sections of the poems?
(a) Very few.
(b) One.
(c) Several.
(d) Two.

15. The evil ones in the poetic stories have been those who are ___________ the idea that the mind has greater power than what comes to be presented to the human senses as objects of the world.
(a) Sure of.
(b) Unsure of.
(c) For.
(d) Against.

Short Answer Questions

1. There are numerous poems in this group that consist of what?

2. In the poem, Summer, each stanza is progressively ______________ than the one before it.

3. How will those intently interested in the details of this part of his work feel about having been included?

4. There are individual stanzas that are how many lines long or longer?

5. This often includes a greater discussion of what?

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