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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
  • 1. According to the text, what is Blake's theory of contraries?
A) A belief that good and evil are identical
B) A belief in the total rejection of rational thought
C) A belief that each person reflects the contrary nature of God
D) A belief that opposites should be destroyed
  • 2. What does Blake claim is impossible without contraries?
A) The creation of religious texts
B) Progression in life
C) The end of revolutionary culture
D) The existence of printing houses
  • 3. How does Blake describe the two types of people in the text?
A) Energetic creators and rational organizers
B) Saints and sinners
C) Kings and peasants
D) Believers and atheists
  • 4. What terms does Blake use in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell to label the two types of people?
A) Printers and prophets
B) Creators and destroyers
C) Devils and angels
D) Masters and servants
  • 5. According to Blake, which of the two groups are necessary to life?
A) Both devils and angels
B) Only the angels
C) Only the devils
D) Neither group
  • 6. What is the cultural context mentioned regarding Blake's text?
A) The revolutionary culture of the period
B) The Victorian industrial era
C) The Renaissance period
D) The postmodern literary movement
  • 7. What does the text suggest the 'printing-house' references represent?
A) Royal publishing houses
B) Underground radical printers
C) The influence of the church
D) Ancient religious scriptures
  • 8. What was the comic term used for ink-blackened printworkers?
A) Printer's devil
B) Angel of ink
C) Revolutionary organizer
D) Rational creator
  • 9. How were revolutionary publications often treated by the pulpits?
A) Praised as divine inspiration
B) Denounced as the work of the devil
C) Ignored as irrelevant
D) Adopted as religious texts
  • 10. What does Blake's theory of contraries explicitly NOT believe in?
A) A belief that life requires energy
B) A belief in simple opposites
C) A belief that people reflect God
D) A belief that reason is a force
  • 11. Who is the author of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell?
A) William Blake
B) Emanuel Swedenborg
C) John Milton
D) Dante Alighieri
  • 12. During which historical period was the book composed?
A) Industrial Revolution
B) The Renaissance
C) French Revolution
D) American Revolution
  • 13. Who helped Blake color the printed plates?
A) His wife, Catherine
B) John Milton
C) Emanuel Swedenborg
D) His brother
  • 14. According to Blake, who was 'of the Devil's party without knowing it'?
A) John Milton
B) Dante Alighieri
C) Emanuel Swedenborg
D) Rintrah
  • 15. The title of the book is an ironic reference to whose work?
A) William Shakespeare
B) Emanuel Swedenborg
C) John Milton
D) Dante Alighieri
  • 16. What did Blake call his method of revealing the nature of conventional morality?
A) A memorable fancy
B) A biblical prophecy
C) A poetic essay
D) A theological treatise
  • 17. What does Blake identify as 'necessary to Human existence'?
A) Absolute peace
B) Contraries
C) The suppression of desire
D) Strict religious obedience
  • 18. What did the ancient Poets animate with Gods or Geniuses?
A) Sensible objects
B) Abstract theories
C) Political systems
D) Priesthood structures
  • 19. In Blake's view, Hell is a source of what?
A) Unrepressed energy
B) Eternal punishment
C) Priesthood authority
D) Reason and instruction
  • 20. Which author used a phrase from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell as the title for their work, The Doors of Perception?
A) Wallace Stevens
B) C. S. Lewis
C) William Blake
D) Aldous Huxley
  • 21. C. S. Lewis wrote which work in response to Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell?
A) The Doors of Perception
B) Songs and Proverbs of William Blake
C) Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit
D) The Great Divorce
  • 22. Who placed pages of Blake's book into the casket of Colette Peignot?
A) Aldous Huxley
B) Georges Bataille
C) Wallace Stevens
D) Benjamin Britten
  • 23. Which poet included an allusion to Aristotle's skeleton, found in Blake's work, in their poem 'Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit'?
A) Benjamin Britten
B) Olga Tokarczuk
C) William Blake
D) Wallace Stevens
  • 24. Which novel features an avant-garde film titled The Pre-Nuptial Agreement of Heaven and Hell?
A) The Great Divorce
B) The Doors of Perception
C) Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
D) Infinite Jest
  • 25. Kelly Reichardt used which proverb as an epigraph for the film First Cow?
A) The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom
B) Portions of eternity too great for the eye of man
C) Drive your plow over the bones of the dead
D) The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship
  • 26. Which Norwegian experimental band released an album that was a musical setting of Blake's book?
A) The Doors
B) Judas Iscariot
C) Virgin Steele
D) Ulver
  • 27. Which band used a quote from Blake for the title of their song 'Portions of Eternity Too Great for the Eye of Man'?
A) The Doors
B) Judas Iscariot
C) Virgin Steele
D) Ulver
  • 28. How many albums did the band Virgin Steele release based on Blake's work?
A) Four
B) Three
C) One
D) Two
  • 29. In the movie Bull Durham, which character quotes 'The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom'?
A) Annie Savoy
B) Georges Bataille
C) Susan Sarandon
D) David Cronenberg
  • 30. David Cronenberg included the quote 'The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom' in which film?
A) Bull Durham
B) The Doors
C) Shivers
D) First Cow
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