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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why have the inscriptions been included?
(a) So Blake would feel his work was being adequately taught.
(b) So lovers of art will understand the connection between Blake's poems and visual art.
(c) So that passionate fans of William Blake's can learn more about him through his artwork.
(d) So that students can better understand Blake's work.

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

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

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

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

6. Some of them do add up to make poems, such as those under what?
(a) "Effigy."
(b) "Eloise."
(c) "Elegy."
(d) "Elena."

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

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

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

10. The first argument claims what?
(a) The sensory world is a fantasy.
(b) The world as we know it does not exist.
(c) The sensory world is the real one.
(d) The real world is a fantasy.

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

12. He uses his powers to do what?
(a) Create hells.
(b) Destroy hells.
(c) Enter and traverse hells.
(d) Leave hells.

13. 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) Six.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Their relation to the mystical and the divine also sets them apart from what in their form?

2. To the Muses is built of what?

3. There are how many poems under this category?

4. "She drave the Females away from Los / and ____________________________." (p. 305).

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

(see the answer keys)

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