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Category: The Poetry of John Milton
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
The foundation story of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” derives from what text ?
A. The Book of “Genesis”
B. The Book of “Revelations”
C. “The Odyssey”
D. “Canterbury Tales”
Denied the right to apply for divorce and facing intense humiliation, John Milton wrote what work ?
A. “Christian Doctrines”
B. “On Regicide”
C. “The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce”
D. “Paradise Lost”
John Milton deliberately distanced himself from the poets, a group of poets known for their light, elegant style and frivolous content ?
A. Romantic
B. Victorian
C. Cavalier
D. Enlightenment
Near the end of “Samson Agonistes,” Samson resists performing before attendants of what type of event ?
A. Greek Olympic Games
B. A Roman Circus
C. A Gladiator competition
D. A and B
In the first 75 lines of Book One of “Paradise Regained,” Satan refers to which person he has recently seen, who is identified by the following quote? “Before him [Jesus] a great Prophet, to proclaim / His coming, is sent Harbinger, who all / Invites, and in the Consecrated stream / Pretends to wash off sin” ?
A. John the Apostle
B. John the Baptist
C. Michael the Archangel
D. Joseph, Jesus’s stepfather
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