LitMent

1. When was the first edition of Paradise Lost published?

A) 1658
B) 1663
C) 1667
D) 1674

Answer: C) 1667

2. How many books were in the first edition?

A) 8
B) 10
C) 12
D) 6

Answer: B) 10

3. The 1674 edition was arranged like which epic?

A) Iliad
B) Aeneid
C) Inferno
D) Odyssey

Answer: B) Aeneid

4. Paradise Lost is written in?

A) Heroic couplet
B) Blank verse
C) Sonnet
D) Prose

Answer: B) Blank verse

5. Who published the first edition?

A) Dryden
B) Samuel Simmons
C) Marvell
D) Tomkins

Answer: B) Samuel Simmons

6. Milton called rhyme a ______.

A) Decoration
B) Bondage
C) Necessity
D) Luxury

Answer: B) Bondage

7. “In medias res” means?

A) Beginning
B) Middle of action
C) Ending
D) Dream sequence

Answer: B) Middle of action

8. Milton’s purpose was to?

A) Praise Satan
B) Justify God’s ways
C) Attack monarchy
D) Describe nature

Answer: B) Justify God’s ways

9. First major character introduced?

A) Adam
B) God
C) Satan
D) Eve

Answer: C) Satan

10. “Better to reign in Hell…” is spoken by?

A) Adam
B) Satan
C) Beelzebub
D) Mammon

Answer: B) Satan

11. Who said Milton was of Devil’s party?

A) Wordsworth
B) Blake
C) Shelley
D) Eliot

Answer: B) Blake

12. Ultimate hero of the epic?

A) Adam
B) Son of God
C) Raphael
D) Abdiel

Answer: B) Son of God

13. Eve was created from?

A) Head
B) Rib
C) Heart
D) Foot

Answer: B) Rib

14. Satan’s second-in-command?

A) Mammon
B) Beelzebub
C) Belial
D) Moloch

Answer: B) Beelzebub

15. Who warns Adam and Eve?

A) Michael
B) Raphael
C) Gabriel
D) Uriel

Answer: B) Raphael

16. Who expels them from Eden?

A) Raphael
B) Michael
C) Gabriel
D) Abdiel

Answer: B) Michael

17. Satan’s daughter?

A) Eve
B) Sin
C) Chaos
D) Death

Answer: B) Sin

18. Offspring of Satan and Sin?

A) Mammon
B) Death
C) Belial
D) Moloch

Answer: B) Death

19. Lone seraph loyal to God?

A) Abdiel
B) Raphael
C) Michael
D) Gabriel

Answer: A) Abdiel

20. Milton’s style is called?

A) Plain Style
B) Grand Style
C) Pastoral Style
D) Gothic Style

Answer: B) Grand Style

50. The Gryphon simile comes from?

A) Tacitus
B) Herodotus
C) Plutarch
D) Homer

Answer: B) Herodotus