The Poems of William Blake Quizzes

The Poems of William Blake Quiz 1

1 William Blake was born in?
London

Dublin

Glasgow

Boston
2 Accompanying many of Blake's poems was?
Footnotes

Illustrations

Comic Books

Explanations
3 The major event in Europe during Blake's life was?
The Protestant Reformation

The French Revolution

World War II

World War I
4 Blake started writing poetry around the age of?
40-45

65

25-30

10-15
5 Blake was writing poetry around the end of which century?
19th

17th

18th

16th
6 In "A Cradle Song," the speaker is?
God

A child

A father

A mother
7 In "A Cradle Song," the speaker is sitting?
In a bedroom

On a riverside

In church

Under a tree
8 In "A Cradle Song," the time of day is?
There is no way to tell

Noon

Morning

Evening
9 In "A Cradle Song," the speaker fears?
That her child will die in its sleep

The loss of innocence for her child

That her child may have nightmares

The demons who come in the night
10 In "Hear thy voice," the speaker is?
Earth

A lapsed soul

God

The bard
11 In "Hear thy voice," the 'ancient trees' is a reference to?
The Garden of Eden

Hell

Jerusalem

Sherwood Forest
12 In "Hear thy voice," the 'Holy Word' is a reference to?
The American Revolution

Religion

The French Revolution

The King
13 In "Hear thy voice," the Earth is returning from?
The starry floor

The morning

The wat'ry shore

The night
14 In "Love's Secret," the speaker has a feeling of?
Joy

Regret

Anticipation

Fear
15 In "Love's Secret," the speaker's advice is love is kept better as?
Seeking

Gentle

Trembling and cold

Silent and invisible
16 In "Love's Secret," the lover's reaction to the speaker is?
To embrace him

To travel

To tell him what's in her heart

To leave him
17 In "Love's Secret," Blake compares love to?
Invisibility

Traveling

Ghastly fears

Wind
18 In "Mad Song," the speaker compares his imagination to?
Morning peeps

Roaring winds

Eastern steeps

Rustling birds
19 An example of personification in "Mad Song" is?
Like a fiend in a cloud

The rustling birds

Light doth seize

The morning peeps
20 One of the overall moods of the speaker in "Mad Song" is?
Dejection

Fear

Determination

Resignation
21 In Blake poetry, daytime/nighttime represent?
Innocence/Experience

Hell/Heaven

Experience/Innocence

Heaven/Hell
22 The "Evening Star" is?
Blake's wife Catherine

Venus

Orc

Urizen
23 In "To the Evening Star," the 'star' is requested to?
Bless the lovers

Sleep in peace

Inspire the poet

Defeat the daytime
24 The oxymoronic phrase in "To the Evening Star" is?
Timely sleep

Speak silence

Radiant crown

Rage wide
25 In "To the Evening Star," the 'lion' represents?
Innocence

Experience

Rage

Revolution

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