The Poetry of John Milton

What important event(s) occur(s) in John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” immediately after Eve first eats of the Tree of Knowledge ?

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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.

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.”

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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 ?

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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