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Category: The Poetry of John Milton
As originally envisioned by John Milton, “Paradise Lost” would consist of how many books ?
A. Nine
B. Ten
C. Eleven
D. Twelve
In John Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” Satan assumes the character and form of what creature in order to tempt Eve to eat at the Tree of Knowledge ?
A. A toad
B. A serpent
C. A lion
D. A tiger
What character leads Adam and Eve from the Gates of Paradise in the final book of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” ?
A. Michelangelo
B. Raphael
C. Uriel
D. Michael
What British Romantic author was particularly inspired by the work of John Milton ?
A. William Blake
B. Alfred Lord Tennyson
C. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
D. T.S. Eliot
Milton in “Samson Agonistes” uses a Chorus, which he borrows from what previous genre ?
A. Medieval Mystery Plays
B. Greek Epic
C. Greek Drama
D. French Chanson de Gestes
In Book Three of “Paradise Lost,” God the Father alludes to what theological principle in the following quotation: “I made him [Adam] just and right, / Sufficient to have stood though free to fall.”
A. Transubstantiation
B. Free will
C. Predestination
D. Sufficience
The term “Agonistes” is Greek and it means______________?
A. one who is in agony.
B. one who inflicts agony.
C. one who struggles for or champions a cause.
D. one who predicts the future.
In the Biblical book of “Judges,”?
A. Dalila pays Samson’s ransom from prison.
B. Dalila refuses to pay Samson’s ransom in prison.
C. Never records Dalila’s visit to Samson in prison.
D. Never records Dalila’s cutting of Samson’s hair.
Early in Book Two of “Paradise Regained,” who yearns to see the missing Jesus (who has wandered into the desert) ?
A. First Mary, then Joseph
B. First Andrew and Simon (Peter), then Mary
C. First Mary, then James and John
D. First Peter, then Paul and Mary
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