William Blake MCQs

Blake “The Everlasting Gospel” appeared in:
(a) 1815
(b) 1818
(c) 1816
(d) 1819
Question’s Answer: 1818

The first and only private exhibition of Blake’s work was held in:
(a) 1805
(b) 1809
(c) 1807
(d) 1810
Question’s Answer: 1809

Blake’s “For Children: The Gates of Paradise” was published in which year?
(a) 1792
(b) 1795
(c) 1794
(d) 1793
Question’s Answer: 1793

Blake met John Linnell in:
(a) 1817
(b) 1820
(c) 1819
(d) 1818
Question’s Answer: 1818

The poem “Jerusalem” by Blake was engraved in
(a) Hundred Plates
(b) Sixty Plates
(c) Fifty Plates
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Hundred Plates

The title of “For Children: The Gates of Paradise” was later altered to read:
(a) For Mothers: The Gates of Paradise
(b) For Elders: The Gates of Paradise
(c) For Sexes: The Gates of Paradise
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: For Sexes: The Gates of Paradise

Blake pass away in:
(a) 1830
(b) 1828
(c) 1829
(d) 1827
Question’s Answer: 1827

Blake worked on the job of engravings between:
(a) 1823-25
(b) 1825-27
(c) 1823-26
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1823-25

Blake made woodcuts to Thornton’s Pastorals (of Virgil) in:
(a) 1818
(b) 1820
(c) 1819
(d) 1821
Question’s Answer: 1820

Vala or The Four Zoas by Blake is
(a) An Epic
(b) A Ballad
(c) A Fable
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: An Epic

Blake worked on illustration to Dante between:
(a) 1824-25
(b) 1825-26
(c) 1824-26
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1824-26

W. Blake’s “The Four Zoas” was printed for the first time in:
(a) 1893
(b) 1892
(c) 1894
(d) 1890
Question’s Answer: 1893

Blake’s wife Catherine pass away in:
(a) 1828
(b) 1831
(c) 1829
(d) 1832
Question’s Answer: 1831

Swinburne’s critical essay on Blakewas published in which year?
(a) 1867
(b) 1870
(c) 1869
(d) 1868
Question’s Answer: 1868

Three edition,volume including biography. commentary and reproduction of the prophecies of W. Blake was published by E.J. Ellis and W.B. Yeats in:
(a) 1891
(b) 1892
(c) 1894
(d) 1893
Question’s Answer: 1893

Who is the author of the “Vala or The Four Zoas”
(a) W. Blake
(b) Philip Larkin
(c) ST. Coleridge
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: W. Blake

“W. Blake: His Philosophy and Symbols” by S. Foster Damon was published in which year?
(a) 1924
(b) 1926
(c) 1925
(d) 1927
Question’s Answer: 1925

Which is not a poem by W. Blake?
(a) Songs of Innocence
(b) Songs of Experience
(c) Desert Places
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Desert Places

Who is the author of the “The Everlasting Gospel”?
(a) W. Blake
(b) John Keats
(c) Robert Browning
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: W. Blake

“Tiger” in W. Blake’s Songs of experience stands for:
(a) Danger
(b) Evil
(c) Power
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Evil

How many lines are there in Blake’s poem “The Echoing Green”?
(a) 40
(b) 35
(c) 37
(d) 30
Question’s Answer: 30

“Songs of Experience” is written by:
(a) Seamus Heaney
(b) Robert Frost
(c) W. Blake
(d) Ted Hughes
Question’s Answer: W. Blake

W. Blake was a:
(a) Poet & Engraver
(b) Novelist
(c) Essayist
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Poet & Engraver

Which is not a poem by W. Blake?
(a) Vala
(b) The Road Not Taken
(c) of Heaven and Hell
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The Road Not Taken

How many lines are there in Blake’s poem “Infant Joy”?
(a) 19
(b) 15
(c) 18
(d) 12
Question’s Answer: 12

“Lamb” in the poem “The Lamb” is a symbol of:
(a) Truth
(b) Weakness
(c) Innocence
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Innocence

How many stanzas are there in Blake’s poem “The Echoing Green”?
(a) Three
(b) Five
(c) Four
(d) Six
Question’s Answer: Four

How many stanzas are there in Blake’s poem “The Shephered”?
(a) Five
(b) Four
(c) Two
(d) Three
Question’s Answer: Two

Who is the author of the “The Chimney Sweeper”?
(a) John Keats
(b) Philip Larkin
(c) W. Blake
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: W. Blake

“Night” is a:
(a) Novel
(b) Play
(c) Poem
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Poem

How many lines are there in Blake’s poem “Earth’s Answer”?
(a) 25 lines
(b) 20 lines
(c) 15 lines
(d) 26 lines
Question’s Answer: 25 lines

Which is not a poem by W. Blake?
(a) Leisure
(b) The Fly
(c) Nurse’s Song
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Leisure

W. Blake’s poem “The Lamb” consists of:
(a) 20 lines
(b) 15 lines
(c) 25 lines
(d) 26 lines
Question’s Answer: 20 lines

How many lines are there in Blake’s poem “The Shephered”?
(a) 5
(b) 11
(c) 10
(d) 8
Question’s Answer: 8

How many lines are there in Blake’s poem “The Little Girl Lost”?
(a) 50 lines
(b) 56 lines
(c) 55 lines
(d) 52 lines
Question’s Answer: 52 lines

How many stanzas are there in Blake’s poem “Earth’s Answer”:
(a) 4 stanzas
(b) 6 stanzas
(c) 5 stanzas
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 5 stanzas

A Poison Tree was proudly written by:
(a) W. Blake
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) S.T. Coleridge
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: W. Blake

How many lines are there in the poem “A Poison Tree” by” W. Blake?
(a) Seventeen lines
(b) Sixteen lines
(c) Twenty lines
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Sixteen lines

How many stanzas are there in the poem” A Poison Tree” by W. Blake?
(a) Six stanzas
(b) Five stanzas
(c) Four stanzas
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Four stanzas

“The Little Girl Lost” was proudly written by:
(a) William Davies
(b) William Blake
(c) Robert Browning
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: William Blake

“London” is a:
(a) Play
(b) Poem
(c) Short Story
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Poem

“Spring” is a:
(a) Fairy-Tale
(b) Poem
(c) Novel
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Poem

Who is the author of the “The Chimney Sweeper”?
(a) W. Blake
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Elizabeth Sewell
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: W. Blake

“The Little Girl Found” was proudly written by:
(a) Wordsworth
(b) John Keats
(c) W.Blake
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: W.Blake

The poem “The Tiger” by W. Blake is a companion poem to:
(a) The Shepherded
(b) Infant Joy
(c) The Lamb
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The Lamb

How many lines are there in Blake’s poem “Spring”?
(a) 27 lines
(b) 25 lines
(c) 30 lines
(d) 35 lines
Question’s Answer: 27 lines

Which is not a poem by W. Blake?
(a) A Cradle Song
(b) Ode To Autumn
(c) London
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Ode To Autumn

A complete copy of “Songs of Innocence” contained:
(a) Thirty-six plates
(b) Thirty plates
(c) Forty Plates
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Thirty-six plates

How many lines are there in the poem “The Little Girl Found” written by W.Blake?
(a) 50 lines
(b) 70 lines
(c) 60 lines
(d) 52 lines
Question’s Answer: 52 lines

The poem “The Little Girl Lost” by Blake appeared in his volume:
(a) Songs of Experience
(b) Songs of Innocence
(c) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Songs of Innocence

Blake’s younger brother pass away in:
(a) 1786
(b) 1789
(c) 1788
(d) 1787
Question’s Answer: 1787

“Marriage of Heaven and Hell” was proudly written by Blake in:
(a) 1790
(b) 1789
(c) 1788
(d) 1791
Question’s Answer: 1790

Blake completed his “Songs of Innocence” in:
(a) 1788
(b) 1891
(c) 1790
(d) 1789
Question’s Answer: 1789

Book I, of “The French Revolution” was printed in:
(a) 1791
(b) 1790
(c) 1792
(d) 1793
Question’s Answer: 1791

Blake published some of his carly work in Sculptural Monuments of Great Britain in:
(a) 1791
(b) 1787
(c) 1786
(d) 1791
Question’s Answer: 1786

Blake became interested in the Swedenborgian movement in:
(a) 1801
(b) 1789
(c) 1800
(d) 1788
Question’s Answer: 1788

Blake’s “Songs of Experience” appeared in:
(a) 1793
(b) 1795
(c) 1794
(d) 1796
Question’s Answer: 1794

Blake wrote” An Island on the Moon” between:
(a) 1783-87
(b) 1783-86
(c) 1783-85
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1783-85

Blake got a commission to illustrate young’s “Night Thoughts” in:
(a) 1795
(b) 1798
(c) 1797
(d) 1796
Question’s Answer: 1796

Blake began work on “Vala” in:
(a) 1797
(b) 1796
(c) 1795
(d) 1798
Question’s Answer: 1797

Which was Blake’s first long poem?
(a) The Fly
(b) The Tiger
(c) Vala
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Vala

Which was the first long poem of William Blake which was later called “The Four Zoas”?
(a) Vala
(b) The Shepherd
(c) The Lamb
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Vala

The first book of “Urizen” appeared:
(a) 1797
(b) 1795
(c) 1796
(d) 1794
Question’s Answer: 1794

“Europe A Prophecy” was published in which year?
(a) 1793
(b) 1796
(c) 1795
(d) 1794
Question’s Answer: 1794

W. Blake was bom in:
(a) 1760
(b) 1758
(c) 1759
(d) 1757
Question’s Answer: 1757

How many designs were made by Blake to illustrate young’s “Night Thoughts”?
(a) Over 500 designs
(b) 400 designs
(c) 350 designs
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Over 500 designs

Blake accepted invitation from William Hayley to settle with him at Felpham in Sussex in:
(a) 1798
(b) 1799
(c) 1801
(d) 1800
Question’s Answer: 1800

The poem “Milton” by Blake was engraved in:
(a) Fifty-five Plates
(b) Fifty Plates
(c) Sixty Plates
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Fifty Plates

W. Blake was the:
(a) Second son of his parents
(b) First son of his parents
(c) Last son of his parents
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Second son of his parents

Blake’s father was a:
(a) Doctor
(b) Writer
(c) Hosier
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Hosier

Blake saw a tree filled with angels on Peckham Bay when he was:
(a) Five
(b) Eight
(c) Six
(d) Nine
Question’s Answer: Eight

Blake broke with Hayley and returned to London in:
(a) 1803
(b) 1802
(c) 1801
(d) 1804
Question’s Answer: 1803

Blake engraved two long poems and Jerusalem” in:
(a) 1801
(b) 1803
(c) 1805
(d) 1804
Question’s Answer: 1804

Blake claimed to see God when he was:
(a) Three years old
(b) Five years old
(c) Four years old
Question’s Answer: Four years old

Blake was sent as a pupil to Henry Paul’s drawing school when he was:
(a) Seven
(b) Thirteen
(c) Twelve
(d) Ten
Question’s Answer: Ten

The poem “How Sweet I Roamed From Field to Field” by W. Blake was proudly written by him when he was.
(a) Fourteen
(b) Thirteen
(c) Fifteen
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Fourteen

Blake was apprenticed to Mr. James Baire, engraver, in:
(a) 1771
(b) 1774
(c) 1773
(d) 1772
Question’s Answer: 1772

Blake served apprenticeship with Mr. James Baire for:
(a) Seven Years
(b) Six Years
(c) Eight Years
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Seven Years

The poem “How Sweet 1 Roamed From Field to Field” was printed in:
(a) 1784
(b) 1783
(c) 1785
(d) 1786
Question’s Answer: 1783

Blake was married to Catherine Boucher in:
(a) 1781
(b) 1783
(c) 1782
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1782

Blake finished his apprenticeship with Baire when he was:
(a) Twenty
(b) Twenty-three
(c) Twenty-two
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Twenty-two

Blake was, sent to Henery Paul’s drawing school in:
(a) 1767
(b) 1766
(c) 1765
(d) 1768
Question’s Answer: 1767

Blake stupass away in Henry Paul’s drawing school for nearly:
(a) Three years
(b) Five years
(c) Four years
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Five years

Blake stupass away at the Royal Academy for a few months between:
(a) 1779-81
(b) 1779-80
(c) 1779-82
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1779-80

Blake’s “Poetical Sketches” was published in which year?
(a) 1784
(b) 1785
(c) 1783
(d) 1786
Question’s Answer: 1783

Blake’s “Jerusalem” was reproduced in colour of the original works in:
(a) 1950
(b) 1954
(c) 1953
(d) 1952
Question’s Answer: 1952

Blake opened an engraver’s shop in partnership with Parker in:
(a) 1786
(b) 1785
(c) 1784
(d) 1787
Question’s Answer: 1784

Blake’s partnership with Parker lasted for:
(a) Three Years
(b) Four Years
(c) Six Years
(d) Five Years
Question’s Answer: Five Years

The writings of William Blake by Geoffrey Keynes was published in which year?
(a) 1926
(b) 1925
(c) 1927
(d) 1927
Question’s Answer: 1925

The poem in “Political Sketches” were written between:
(a) 1768-78
(b) 1764-74
(c) 1765-75
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1768-78

Blake’s father pass away in:
(a) 1783
(b) 1786
(c) 1785
(d) 1784
Question’s Answer: 1784

Who is the author of the “The Book of Thel”?
(a) Wordsworth
(b) W. Blake
(c) Robert Frost
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: W. Blake

Blake’s “Vision of the Daughters of Albion” was published in which year?
(a) 1792
(b) 1794
(c) 1793
(d) 1795
Question’s Answer: 1793

Blake started writing “Poetical Sketches” when he was:
(a) Thirteen
(b) Twelve
(e) Fourteen
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Twelve

Which is not a poem by W. Blake?
(a) Ode to the West Wind
(b) The Little Girl Lost
(c) The Echoing Green
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Ode to the West Wind

W. Blake engraved “The book of Los” in:
(a) 1792
(b) 1795
(c) 1794
(d) 1796
Question’s Answer: 1795

“The Lamb” was proudly written by:
(a) Robert Burns
(b) Robert Frost
(c) W. Blake
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: W. Blake

Who gave the following remarks about of the W. Blake’s “Poetical Sketches”: “These poems embody the very essence Eighteenth century”?
(a) T.S. Eliot
(b) W.B. Yeats
(c) Robert Browning
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Robert Browning

Blake had:
(a) No Children
(b) Three Children
(c) Two Children
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: No Children

MCQs & Summary of Some Famous Poems by William Blake