Exam on John Milton

1. What is the primary genre of Lycidas?

a) Epic
b) Pastoral elegy
c) Satire
d) Ode

2. What question does Milton raise about fame?

a) Fame is eternal
b) Fame is useless after death
c) Fame ensures happiness
d) Fame is divine

3. What does “Blind mouths” refer to?

a) Hungry villagers
b) Corrupt clergy
c) Dead souls
d) Lost sailors

4. Which of the following works contains a defence of the right to freedom of speech and expression? [50th BCS]

(a) Holy Living and Holy Dying
(b) Areopagitica
(c) Religio Medici
(d) A Free Man’s Worship

5. What does Eve do when she first becomes conscious? [49th BCS-Subjective]

(a) Goes out to search Adam
(b) Eats the forbidden fruit
(c) Talks to Satan
(d) Looks at the reflection in a stream

6. In which language was Paradise Lost originally written? [49th BCS-Subjective]

(a) Greek
(b) Latin
(c) French
(d) English

7. ‘Paradise Lost’ attempted to---

a. Justify the ways of man to god
b. justify the ways of god to man
c. Show that the Satan and god have equal power
d. explain why good and evil are necessary

8. “Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven”- Who said this and where?

a. Satan in ‘Paradise Lost’
b. Satan in ‘Paradise Regained’
c. Adam in ‘Paradise Lost’
d. Adam in ‘Paradise Regained’

9. In the second edition 'Paradise Lost' was re-divided into — books?

A. thirteen
b.fourteen
c. eleven
d.twelve

10. ‘Paradise Lost' is a — epic poem

a. Rhymed
b. blank versed
c. versed
d. allegorical

11. Which book was about the temptation of Christ?

a) Paradise Lost
b) L’Allegro
c) Samson Agonistes
d) Paradise Regained

12. What is the meaning of Milton’s work ‘Samson Agonistes’?

a) Theist
b) Wrestler
c) Atheist
d) Antagonist

13. Who did Milton have to write his works down when he became blind?

a) his friends
b) his sons
c) his daughters
d) his friends

14. Which one of the Milton’s senses was lost during writing his works?

a) Hearing
b) Taste
c)Vision
d) Voice

15. The fruit of which tree were Adam and eve forbidden to eat?

a. tree of life
b. tree of god
c. tree of sin
d. tree of knowledge

16. In what book does the fall take place?

(A) Book VIII
(B) Book X
(C) Book IX
(D) Book VII

17. In which book of the Bible does the story of Adam and Eve occur?

(A) Leviticus
(B) Exodus
(C) Genesis
(D) Deuteronomy

18. Milton was born in:

A. 1608
B. 1612
C. 1620
D. 1634

19. Milton was influenced by:

A. Shakespeare
B. Donne
C. Virgil
D. All of these

20. Rulers during Milton’s time included:

A. James I
B. Charles I
C. Cromwell
D. All of these

21. L’Allegro is a:

A. Epic
B. Sonnet
C. Masque
D. Pastoral poem

22. Il Penseroso is a:

A. Prose
B. Essay
C. Play
D. Lyric poem

23. Milton’s Satan declares, “The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.” This is said —

(a) After the fall of Adam
(b) Before the battle in Heaven
(c) In Hell after his defeat
(d) To Eve in the Garden

24. Milton wrote Areopagitica in response to the —

(a) Licensing Order of 1643
(b) Execution of Charles I
(c) Restoration of Charles II
(d) Westminster Assembly

25. Noah represents:

A. War
B. Flood punishment
C. Heaven
D. Sin

26. Milton’s epic ends with:

A. Death
B. Hope
C. War
D. Hell

27. The fallen angels’ palace in Hell is called —

(a) Dis
(b) Pandemonium
(c) Avernus
(d) Erebus

28. In Book IX, Eve suggests that she and Adam work separately because —

(a) She wants to meet Satan alone
(b) Adam is lazy
(c) They can accomplish more apart
(d) She is angry at Adam

29. In Paradise Regained, Christ’s first temptation is —

(a) Stones to bread
(b) Kingship of the world
(c) Jumping from the temple
(d) Wealth

30. Samson’s final act is —

(a) Killing himself
(b) Escaping with Dalila
(c) Pulling down the pillars of the Philistine temple
(d) Blinding his captors

31. The Greek tragic concept of hamartia (tragic flaw) in Samson is —

(a) Pride
(b) Lust for Delilah
(c) Trusting his own strength
(d) Revealing his secret to Delilah

32. In Areopagitica, Milton uses the metaphor of the “cloistered virtue” to argue —

(a) Virtue must be hidden
(b) Virtue is not true unless tested against evil
(c) Monastic life is ideal
(d) Virtue is born from ignorance

33. Milton’s theology in Paradise Lost is often described as —

(a) Calvinist determinism
(b) Arminian (free will emphasized)
(c) Catholic sacramentalism
(d) Atheistic

34. Milton's divorce tracts were published during which historical period?

(a) The Restoration
(b) The English Civil War and Interregnum
(c) The Glorious Revolution
(d) The Jacobean era

35. Which of Milton's most famous prose works was published between his divorce tracts?

(a) The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
(b) Areopagitica
(c) Of Education
(d) The Ready and Easy Way