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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. To the Muses is built of what?
(a) Couplets.
(b) Rhyming quatrains.
(c) Hexameters.
(d) Iambic pentameter.

2. Of what are these made?
(a) Silver.
(b) Gold.
(c) Platinum.
(d) Brass.

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.
(a) Unsure of.
(b) For.
(c) Against.
(d) Sure of.

4. The author shares that by this time, he has established what?
(a) Enough of a reputation to satisfy himself.
(b) A small following.
(c) A bank account.
(d) A large following.

5. Does there seem to be the depth of rhyme or reason for the specific sequence of pictures or phrases that turn out to be lines to a coherent poem?
(a) No, not at all.
(b) No, not at first glance.
(c) Yes, at first.
(d) Yes.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author plants _____________ truths into the verses of the second page.

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

3. At this starting point, Blake presents how many arguments?

4. Here again there are many what?

5. What does Blake say about the Eternal and the realms of the Imagination?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Blake say about marriage in this section? Give an example from the text to support your response.

2. Describe the poems that discuss either gods or goddesses.

3. Which writings add up to make poems?

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

5. Describe the poems in this section up to the two called Song.

6. How is this amended, thematically?

7. Upon what do these poems focus?

8. What is significant about the set of poems called Songs and Ballads?

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

10. What is one kind of painting Blake created?

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