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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. Do these inscriptions fall into the same pattern wherein a group of them adds up to make a poem?
(a) Probably.
(b) Yes.
(c) Not at first.
(d) No.

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

3. What is considered significant during these parts of Blake's writing?
(a) The social milieu.
(b) Upheaval.
(c) War.
(d) The sell of products.

4. Describe the stanzas of the first of these.
(a) Ornate.
(b) Interesting.
(c) Simplistic.
(d) Overdone.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why have the inscriptions been included?

2. The poems include one titled ____________.

3. 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.

4. What are included in this section?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one example of Blake's beliefs being discussed into greater detail in this section?

2. What other kind of painting did Blake create?

3. What does the author plant in the verses of the second page?

4. What is one kind of painting Blake created?

5. Give an example of an epitaph from this section.

6. Describe this section.

7. Describe the poems called "nights."

8. Upon what do these poems focus?

9. How do these writings compare to William Blake's previous works?

10. How have Blake's works been preserved?

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