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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How will one know when a work has unity?
(a) This will show in its parts.
(b) The work will be well-accepted by others.
(c) The poet will just know.
(d) The elements will be balanced.

2. About what spiritual transformation does Blake discuss here?
(a) A human being into the incorruptible spiritual form Jesus Christ exemplified and taught was possible.
(b) Jesus Christ into a the Holy Spirit.
(c) The changing of water into wine.
(d) The changing of wine into the blood of Christ.

3. This chapter of the book summary covers what?
(a) The first two chapters of Jerusalem.
(b) The first two chapters of Budapest.
(c) The first two chapters of Dachau.
(d) The first two chapters of Moscow.

4. How does the story open?
(a) When the King is mourning his wife who is dying.
(b) When the King is mourning the disappearance of his wife.
(c) When the King is mourning the dispicable behavior of his wife.
(d) When the King is mourning the death of his wife.

5. Blake is one of the most famous artists in recent history to have done what during much of his adult life?
(a) Worked hard.
(b) Lost most of his income.
(c) Worked as a poet.
(d) Held a day job.

6. What is Albion?
(a) A city in New York.
(b) The ancient name of Blake's homeland, England.
(c) A school in England.
(d) An ancient Mayan civilization.

7. Immediately, the author begins to share what with the readers?
(a) His life.
(b) His personal beliefs.
(c) Aspects of his culture.
(d) His random thoughts.

8. How can readers uninterested in Blake's spiritual vision enjoy it as pure literature?
(a) Due to his vivid images.
(b) Due to his exciting subject matter.
(c) Due to his descriptions of characters.
(d) Due to his popularity.

9. How do these repetitions affect the tale?
(a) The author is able to express his opinions through this tale.
(b) The author is able to grow the tale while making the most of what he has invented so far.
(c) The author is able to explain the tale to readers.
(d) The author is able to aid the reader in visualizing the location of this tale.

10. To whom does Blake often cry?
(a) God.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Satan.
(d) His mother.

11. In the first section, Blake sets forth arguments and principles pertaining to his beliefs and perception of what?
(a) God.
(b) Truth.
(c) Love.
(d) Work.

12. Prior to the entire group there is a short poem that does what?
(a) Extols the virtues of mutual love.
(b) Extols the virtues of mutual compassion.
(c) Extols the virtues of mutual interests.
(d) Extols the virtues of mutual forgiveness.

13. What do these books perpetuate?
(a) The ideas of many at this time in history.
(b) The beliefs of most Englishmen.
(c) The ideas and theme that have been introduced in the preceding sections.
(d) Blake's new and radical ideas.

14. The increasing power of England in the modern world readily overshadows what earthly city's might?
(a) Dachau.
(b) Budapest.
(c) Jerusalem.
(d) Moscow.

15. What concludes the first section of this poem?
(a) The father attends his wife's funeral.
(b) The father and one or more sons dig the grave for the mother and bury her.
(c) The father wanders off.
(d) The father sends his sons away.

Short Answer Questions

1. There is a small amount of commentary accompanying these. The first is about whose poetry?

2. What word might best describe the presentation?

3. The next portion commences with what?

4. This set of verses describes the struggle of what?

5. Does this theme continue throughout this sequence of images?

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