Starter quiz
- Which word is repeated in 'London' that means owned and controlled?
- manacles
- ban
- charter'd ✓
- forg'd
- ''blights''
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- What does the word ''marks'' suggest in the first stanza of 'London'?
- the permanence of the people's suffering ✓
- the soot etched into the people's faces from sweeping chimneys
- the imprint in history that the people want to make by having a revolution
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- Why is the context of the Industrial Revolution important to the poem 'London'?
- The Industrial Revolution widened inequality in society which Blake criticises ✓
- The Industrial Revolution slowly began to improve London which Blake admires
- Blake suggests the pollution from the Industrial Revolution is the worst ill
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- Why is the context of the French Revolution important in the poem 'London'?
- Blake disapproved of the violent ways in which monarchs were killed
- Blake believed people should have more power than establishments
- Blake advocates the idea that oppressed could reclaim power from the privileged ✓
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- How does Blake suggest that marriage is futile in 'London'?
- Many men sought prostitutes showing that human desire prevails over conventions ✓
- The ''new-born Infant's tear'' causes stress in marriages
- Seeking prostitutes meant that infidelity and diseases often ruined marriages ✓
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- How does Blake suggest the corruption of religious establishments through his poem 'London'?
- He suggests they are complicit in child labour ✓
- He suggests they are to blame for the deaths of soldiers
- He suggests they control the river Thames
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