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

2. The poems include one titled ____________.
(a) To Love.
(b) To Mother.
(c) To Hope.
(d) To Spring.

3. In the poem, Summer, each stanza is progressively ______________ than the one before it.
(a) Longer.
(b) More simplistic.
(c) More convoluted.
(d) Shorter.

4. How many events take place in each of these sections of the poems?
(a) One.
(b) Several.
(c) Two.
(d) Very few.

5. Some of them do add up to make poems, such as those under what?
(a) "Eloise."
(b) "Elena."
(c) "Elegy."
(d) "Effigy."

Short Answer Questions

1. This set of writings is listed in the Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake under Roman numeral ____.

2. Why is the answer to Number 95 happening?

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

4. Blake takes readers to this spiritual space that somehow defies normal comprehension by giving what impression?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What other kind of painting did Blake create?

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

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

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

6. Upon what do these poems focus?

7. How is this amended, thematically?

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

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

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

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