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