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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) Sculptures.
(b) Etchings.
(c) Paintings.
(d) Photographs.

2. What does this statement in number 151 do?
(a) It scares us.
(b) It surprises us.
(c) It takes us back to the very beginning of the entire compilation.
(d) It worries us.

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

4. There is an instance here of a miracle. What is this miracle?
(a) Blake's characters can heal others.
(b) Blake's characters walk through fires, unscathed.
(c) Blake's characters can speak in tongues.
(d) Blake's characters can walk on water.

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

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

7. As what has Blake's value been acknowledged?
(a) As a businessman.
(b) As a storyteller.
(c) As a poet.
(d) As both an artist and a printer.

8. How many of these poems taken on their own or in the small groups are sufficient to constitute an entire epic?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) None.
(d) Three.

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

10. By the 9th chapter, what is happening?
(a) The auction has ended.
(b) The argument has escalated.
(c) The battle has ended.
(d) The small group of men are moving intentionally towards going and getting drunk together.

11. There are numerous poems in this group that consist of what?
(a) Rhyming quatrains.
(b) Iambic pentameters.
(c) Clerihew.
(d) Hexameters.

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

13. What does Blake explain during the catalog?
(a) He is a poet.
(b) He loves clothes.
(c) He is a painter of watercolors.
(d) He enjoys using various tools.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The poem Fair Elenor functions as a segue into the ones entitled ___________.

2. Here is yet another portion of the book where there is what?

3. What does Blake say about the Eternal and the realms of the Imagination?

4. What is another recurring image?

5. Much of the rest of this chapter is dedicated to what?

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