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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "She drave the Females away from Los / and ____________________________." (p. 305).
(a) She drave all the Females away from herself.
(b) Los drave all the Males from her away.
(c) Los drave all the Females from her away.
(d) She drave all the Males away from Los.

2. There are individual stanzas that are how many lines long or longer?
(a) 55.
(b) 45.
(c) 65.
(d) 35.

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

4. What are included in this section?
(a) Stories.
(b) Love poems.
(c) Epic tales.
(d) Epitaphs.

5. There is more than one subgroup of the author's writings being brought together into this summary chapter, including a set of how many poems?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Six.

6. After this, there is the area under Numeral VII entitled The Everlasting Gospel which contains what?
(a) Three poems.
(b) Four poems.
(c) Two poems.
(d) One poem.

7. What do the scholars point out about some of these writings?
(a) They are some of his last works.
(b) They are some of his older works.
(c) They are not as good as other works by Blake.
(d) They have been a little difficult to acquire.

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

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

10. These poems focus upon what special torment?
(a) Love and kindness, particularly when found together.
(b) Love and jealousy, particularly when found together.
(c) Love and desire, particularly when found together.
(d) Love and hate, particularly when found together.

11. 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) For.
(c) Against.
(d) Unsure of.

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

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

14. This often includes a greater discussion of what?
(a) His beliefs.
(b) His family.
(c) His hobbies.
(d) His art.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe the images the author creates.

5. This portion is devoted to what?

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