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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. Readers will recall earlier that there was one set of ____________ included along with inscriptions.
(a) Etchings.
(b) Photographs.
(c) Paintings.
(d) Sculptures.

2. 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) Yes.
(c) Yes, at first.
(d) No, not at first glance.

3. Those poems dedicated to the same star, in evening and then in morning, are only how many stanzas long?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

4. During this part of the story Urizen does what?
(a) Ascends.
(b) Descends.
(c) Dies.
(d) Falls.

5. There is an instance here of a miracle. What is this miracle?
(a) Blake's characters can heal others.
(b) Blake's characters walk through fires, unscathed.
(c) Blake's characters can walk on water.
(d) Blake's characters can speak in tongues.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the answer to Number 95 happening?

2. There is more than one subgroup of the author's writings being brought together into this summary chapter, including a set of how many poems?

3. How many of these poems taken on their own or in the small groups are sufficient to constitute an entire epic?

4. How will those intently interested in the details of this part of his work feel about having been included?

5. Why have the inscriptions been included?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the author say about his own reputation and wealth?

3. Describe this section.

4. Which writings add up to make poems?

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

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

7. How does this section open?

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

9. Where is this theme handled? Give an example to support your response.

10. Upon what do these poems focus?

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