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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) Dance.
(b) Song.
(c) Love.
(d) Faith.

2. How will those intently interested in the details of this part of his work feel about having been included?
(a) Nervous.
(b) Angry.
(c) Grateful.
(d) Embarrassed.

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

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

5. Of what are these made?
(a) Gold.
(b) Brass.
(c) Platinum.
(d) Silver.

6. During this part of the story Urizen does what?
(a) Falls.
(b) Dies.
(c) Descends.
(d) Ascends.

7. What does Blake say about the Eternal and the realms of the Imagination?
(a) They are true reality.
(b) They are found only in dreams.
(c) They are fantasy.
(d) They are a mix of reality and fantasy.

8. What is another recurring image?
(a) Animals being taken by other animals.
(b) Humans being taken by other humans.
(c) Animals being taken by humans.
(d) Humans being taken by animals.

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

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

11. How are the poems labeled in their sequence?
(a) As days.
(b) As evenings.
(c) As nights.
(d) As mornings.

12. Describe the images the author creates.
(a) Plain.
(b) Typical.
(c) Deep and vivid.
(d) Boring.

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

14. This is amended, thematically, shortly thereafter with, "Thus Urizen spoke collected himself in awful pride / space / Art though visionary of Jesus the soft delusion of Eternity / Lo I am __________________________________." (p. 307).
(a) God the Almighty and the Father of our Savior, Lord Jesus Christ.
(b) Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
(c) God the terrible destroyer and not the Savior.
(d) God the Father and not the destroyer.

15. There are how many poems under this category?
(a) Thirty-two.
(b) Fifty-two.
(c) Sixty-two.
(d) Forty-two.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "I was buried near this Dike / that my friends may weep as much as they like"?

2. The poems include one titled ____________.

3. How many of these poems taken on their own or in the small groups are sufficient to constitute an entire epic?

4. Some of them do add up to make poems, such as those under what?

5. Here again there are many what?

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