HELP! AP English Prose Questions... From, Percy Shelly's "A Defence of Poetry"?

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This is from a study guide for the upcoming AP Exam.. We are allowed online help / research, but Im still having trouble with these questions.

Passage:
Poets, according to the circumstances of the age and nation in which they appeared, were called, in the earlier epochs of the world, legislators, or prophets: a poet essentially comprises and unites both these characters. For he not only beholds intensely the present as it is, and discovers those laws according to which present things ought to be ordered, but he beholds the future in the present, and his thoughts are the germs of the flower and the fruit of latest time. Not that I assert poets to be prophets in the gross sense of the word, or that they can foretell the form as surely as they foreknow the spirit of events: such is the pretence of superstition, which would make poetry an attribute of prophecy, rather than prophecy an attribute of poetry. A poet participates in the eternal, the infinite, and the one; as far as relates to his conceptions, time and place and number are not. The grammatical forms which express the moods of time, and the difference of persons, and the distinction of place, are convertible with respect to the highest poetry without injuring it as poetry; and the choruses of Æschylus, and the book of Job, and Dante’s “Paradise” would afford, more than any other writings, examples of this fact, if the limits of this essay did not forbid citation. The creations of sculpture, painting, and music are illustrations still more decisive.

Language, color, form, and religious and civil habits of action, are all the instruments and materials of poetry; they may be called poetry by that figure of speech which considers the effect as a synonym of the cause. But poetry in a more restricted sense expresses those arrangements of language, and especially metrical language, which are created by that imperial faculty, whose throne is curtained within the invisible nature of man. And this springs from the nature itself of language, which is a more direct representation of the actions and passions of our internal being, and is susceptible of more various and delicate combinations, than color, form, or motion, and is more plastic and obedient to the control of that faculty of which it is the creation. For language is arbitrarily produced by the imagination, and has relation to thoughts alone; but all other materials, instruments, and conditions of art have relations among each other, which limit and interpose between conception and expression. The former is as a mirror which reflects, the latter as a cloud which enfeebles, the light of which both are mediums of communication.

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

37) According to Shelley, a Poet is a combination of
A. historical figure and patriot
B. artist and priest
C. grammarian and Poet
D. sculptor and musician
E. lawmaker and seer

40) Shelley asserts that grammatical forms (lines10-15) serve all the following Purposes except
A. to indicate verb tense
B. to clarify pronoun agreement
C. to solidify relative Pronouns
D. to forbid citation
E. to enhance poetry

38) In lines 5 and 6, "the germs of the fower and the fruit of latest time" can best be interpreted to mean
A. the guardian of the future
B. that the poet's thoughts destroy
C. that the poet is clairvoyant
D. that the poet is the gardener of thought
E. that the current thoughts of the poet presage the future

47) According to the last paragraph, the greatest attribute of a port is his,
A. Sensitivity to light and dark
B. Depiction of fantasy and reality
C. Perception of others
D. Ability to reflect the future
E. Creation of art

45) In line 27 , if the word "former" refers to language, then "latter" refers to
A. Art
B. Motion
C. Limits
D. Imagination
E. Metrics

The actual page for these questions is,

http://www.mvla.net/teachers/Estherw/Literature%20and%20Comp%20AP/Documents/Unit%205%20Multiple%20Choice%20and%20Final%20Exam/01.%20MC%20Diagnostic.pdf

I Appreciate the help.... Thanks in advance!