William Blake: The Prophet Poet

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1. Which of the following is not one of Blake's major prophetic books? Jerusalem The Four Zoas Songs of Innocence Milton

2. Which of these poems is probably about sexually transmitted disease? The Garden of Love The Sick Rose Little Girl Lost The Chimney Sweep

3. William Blake received formal education in only one subject. Which? Art Greek Literature Blacksmithing

4. Which book is subtitled "Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul"? Jerusalem The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Songs of Innocence and Experience Poetical Sketches

5. Whose mother died when he "was very young," and who was sold before his "tongue / Could scarcely cry"? The Little Black Boy The Chimney Sweeper The Little Boy Lost The School-Boy

6. Did Blake teach his wife to read? Yes No

7. Who says, "And then I'll stand and stroke his silver hair, / And be like him, and he will then love me"? The Little Girl Lost The Little Black Boy The Little Boy Found The Chimney Sweeper

8. Blake once pushed a soldier out of his garden and all the way to a nearby inn, where the soldier was quartered. The soldier then charged Blake with what? Sedition Battery Assault Blasphemy

9. Complete this line from "The Tyger": "Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the ____ make thee?" World Brain Heart Lamb

10. Blake was a rousing success not only as a poet but also as a painter, with his one-man show drawing enormous crowds. Is this statement true or false? True False

11. Which work contains a title page depicting a naked man throwing himself upon a scantily clad woman, while another woman looks on? The Book of Thel Visions of the Daughters of Albion The Marriage of Heaven and Hell The Four Zoas

12. When he died, Blake had been working on illustrations for the writing of which author? Boccacio Byron Dante Shelley

13. Whose sigh "runs in blood down Palace walls"? The Little Black Boy's The Happless Soldier's The Little Vagabond's The Chimney Sweep's

14. Which of the following books, according to Blake, contained all he knew? The Inferno The Canterbury Tales The Talmud The Bible

15. Who was "binding with briars" the poet's "joys and desires" in "The Garden of Love"? His Wife Christ The Constable Priests

16. Who are the daughters of Albion? Mermaids Prostitutes Nuns Englishwomen

17. In what portion of "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" do we find: "Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead"? A Memorable Fancy Proverbs of Hell A Song of Liberty The Voice of the Devil

18. In "To Autumn," Blake describes Autumn as "laden with fruit, and stained / With the blood of the ___." What belongs in the blank? Grape Innocent Martyrs Lovers

19. Whom does Blake tell to "Mock on, Mock on"? Christ Shelley Satan Voltaire

20. What monk said of William Blake: "As for the other Romantics: how feeble and hysterical their inspirations seem next to the tremendously genuine and spiritual fire of William Blake"? Thomas Merton St. Thomas Aquinas Thomas Mann Thomas Cruise