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

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

3. At this starting point, Blake presents how many arguments?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

4. What kind of catalog does Blake create?
(a) His owning clothing catalog.
(b) His own tool catalog.
(c) His own exhibition catalog.
(d) His own book catalog.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Many of the other inscriptions are captions intended to join ___________.

2. Why is the answer to Number 95 happening?

3. In the poem, Summer, each stanza is progressively ______________ than the one before it.

4. What is another recurring image?

5. With respect to William Blake's ____________, there were at least two kinds.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does this section open?

2. What happens when Urizen descends? What might this represent?

3. Describe this section.

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

5. Upon what do these poems focus?

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

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

8. Describe the earlier set of etchings.

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

10. To what is this portion devoted? Describe this portion.

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