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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is William Blake's first prophecy called?
(a) Prophecy for Australia.
(b) Prophecy for China.
(c) Prophecy for America.
(d) Prophecy for South Africa.

2. Blake was a _________________ by profession.
(a) Construction worker.
(b) Author and poet.
(c) Printer and painter.
(d) Teacher.

3. Shortly, the sad and perhaps frightened, paranoid or suspicious old man is speaking of what?
(a) God and heaven.
(b) Satan and demons.
(c) Serpents and curses.
(d) Angels and saints.

4. What is epistemology?
(a) A study of the surface of something.
(b) An inflammation of the epidermis.
(c) The study of words.
(d) Knowledge, what it is and how we know what we know.

5. The King calls his sons before the palace in his sorrow. Why might be the reason for him quickly turning darker and more symbolic?
(a) His young do not care.
(b) His young are just as dispicable.
(c) His young are equally as sick.
(d) His young are of no use to him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a natural side effect of employing this aspect?

2. He writes of the need to give and receive what?

3. How will one know when a work has unity?

4. Blake clearly has hope for what between the sexes?

5. Here the author has created another work designed to be what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Albion?

2. How is the author's presentation of his Jerusalem melodramatic?

3. Describe the illustrations in this section.

4. What goes along with each illustration?

5. What is the Spectre?

6. What has been done to create this book?

7. What commentary accompanies these illustrations?

8. What is the purpose of these two "books"?

9. How does Blake's writing affect the reader?

10. How does the author share his worldliness?

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