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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. Here we have what chapters of Blake's Jerusalem?
(a) 3 and 4.
(b) 5 and 6.
(c) 2 and 3.
(d) 4 and 5.

2. Prior to the entire group there is a short poem that does what?
(a) Extols the virtues of mutual love.
(b) Extols the virtues of mutual interests.
(c) Extols the virtues of mutual compassion.
(d) Extols the virtues of mutual forgiveness.

3. On one page the author is citing Albion and ranting about delusions, when a few pages later he connects the two by setting Albion, Canaan and __________ together in just a few short lines of poetry.
(a) Smyrna.
(b) Assyria.
(c) Babylon.
(d) Moab.

4. In the first section, Blake sets forth arguments and principles pertaining to his beliefs and perception of what?
(a) God.
(b) Love.
(c) Truth.
(d) Work.

5. What concludes the first section of this poem?
(a) The father sends his sons away.
(b) The father and one or more sons dig the grave for the mother and bury her.
(c) The father attends his wife's funeral.
(d) The father wanders off.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the term book used accurately to describe Blake's work?

2. What does the author repeat?

3. What is meant by faculties?

4. Does this theme continue throughout this sequence of images?

5. The Englishman continues his exposition with how many books, which include Milton?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Blake think of the resurrection?

2. How has William Blake made predictions about the world?

3. How is this poetry akin to some of he preceding works?

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

5. What two arguments does the author set forth?

6. What goes along with each illustration?

7. Describe the "books" related to the writings of Milton.

8. What is the Spectre?

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

10. How does this story open?

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