A. God/Yahweh
B. Judea
C. Lot
D. A and B
English Literature Mcqs
John Milton claimed from an early age that he would become ?
A. England’s first poet
B. England’s first dramatist
C. England’s poet laureate
D. England’s greatest civil engineer
What important event(s) occur(s) in John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” immediately after Eve first eats of the Tree of Knowledge ?
A. Nature is immediately wounded by Eve’s transgression.
B. Satan is immediately wounded by Eve’s transgression.
C. Raphael is immediately wounded by Eve’s transgression.
D. Abdiel immediately flees the Council of Rebel Angels.
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”
John Milton’s “Lycidas” is best described by which of the following genres ?
A. Pastoral elegy
B. Prose polemic
C. Blank verse tragedy
D. Masque
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
Despite Samson’s defeat and shame, Samson predicts that God will “arise and his great name assert” by making Dagon receive “Such a discomfit, as shall quite despoil him / Of all these boasted Trophies won on me / And with confusion blank his Worshippers” (467–71). This prediction is interesting because ?
A. the prediction is never fulfilled.
B. the prophet Enoch had made the same prediction centuries earlier.
C. Samson doesn’t know he himself will fulfill the prediction.
D. the prediction is finally fulfilled much later when Jesus defeats Dagon
In “Samson Agonistes,” Samson’s father, Manoa, is trying to get Samson freed from imprisonment mainly so he can help Samson to____________?
A. get revenge on his enemies
B. re-instated as a Judge
C. retire
D. convert
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
John Milton’s “Samson Agonistes” is best described by which of the following genres ?
A. Pastoral elegy
B. Prose polemic
C. Blank verse tragedy
D. Masque