A poem that generally has meter and rhyme______________?
A. lyric
B. free verse
C. narrative
D. none of the above
English Literature Mcqs
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
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”
What author wrote “Life of Milton” ?
A. Samuel Johnson
B. Edmund Spencer
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. T. S. Eliot
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.
After Milton went blind, he was able to compose poetry by using ______________?
A. braille
B. dictation
C. a code of his own devising
D. an Abacus
Which of the following events occur(s) in the first book of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” ?
A. Satan lays dazed on the burning lake.
B. Satan assembles his fallen legions.
C. Adam and Eve fall from the state of Paradise.
D. A and B
In Book Six of “Paradise Lost,” Satan invents something that he thinks will help win his war against God. What is it ?
A. Gunpowder
B. Adamantine armor
C. The Chariot of Paternal Deity
D. The Thunderbolt
How many times does Satan work to tempt Jesus in the Gospels ?
A. One
B. Two
C. Three
D. Four
The elegy began as an ancient metrical form ?
A. French
B. Greek
C. Roman
D. German