The Poems of William Blake Quizzes

The Poems of William Blake Quiz 1

1 William Blake was born in?
London

Dublin

Boston

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

Explanations

Comic Books

Illustrations
3 The major event in Europe during Blake's life was?
World War II

The French Revolution

The Protestant Reformation

World War I
4 Blake started writing poetry around the age of?
10-15

25-30

65

40-45
5 Blake was writing poetry around the end of which century?
17th

16th

19th

18th
6 In "A Cradle Song," the speaker is?
A child

God

A mother

A father
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?
Noon

Evening

There is no way to tell

Morning
9 In "A Cradle Song," the speaker fears?
The loss of innocence for her child

That her child will die in its sleep

The demons who come in the night

That her child may have nightmares
10 In "Hear thy voice," the speaker is?
Earth

The bard

God

A lapsed soul
11 In "Hear thy voice," the 'ancient trees' is a reference to?
Sherwood Forest

Jerusalem

Hell

The Garden of Eden
12 In "Hear thy voice," the 'Holy Word' is a reference to?
The American Revolution

Religion

The King

The French Revolution
13 In "Hear thy voice," the Earth is returning from?
The night

The starry floor

The morning

The wat'ry shore
14 In "Love's Secret," the speaker has a feeling of?
Anticipation

Fear

Joy

Regret
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 tell him what's in her heart

To travel

To embrace him

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

Wind

Ghastly fears

Invisibility
18 In "Mad Song," the speaker compares his imagination to?
Eastern steeps

Morning peeps

Roaring winds

Rustling birds
19 An example of personification in "Mad Song" is?
The rustling birds

The morning peeps

Light doth seize

Like a fiend in a cloud
20 One of the overall moods of the speaker in "Mad Song" is?
Fear

Resignation

Dejection

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

Innocence/Experience

Hell/Heaven

Heaven/Hell
22 The "Evening Star" is?
Venus

Orc

Blake's wife Catherine

Urizen
23 In "To the Evening Star," the 'star' is requested to?
Inspire the poet

Sleep in peace

Bless the lovers

Defeat the daytime
24 The oxymoronic phrase in "To the Evening Star" is?
Rage wide

Timely sleep

Speak silence

Radiant crown
25 In "To the Evening Star," the 'lion' represents?
Rage

Revolution

Experience

Innocence

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