In the Oliver Cromwell “Commonwealth” and “Protectorate” administrations, Milton served as the British government’s chief ?

A. Civil engineer
B. Poet laureate
C. Military strategist
D. Intellectual defender

According to John Milton, political offices were to be filled by______________?

A. The king
B. The house of lords
C. Popular election
D. God

In the “Book of Job,” Satan speaks to what figure(s) ?

A. God/yahweh
B. Judea
C. Lot
D. A and b

Unlike the gods and goddesses of classical epics, John Milton’s God in “Paradise Lost” is and____________?

A. Visible, inaccessible
B. Inaccessible, omnipresent
C. Nonexistent, invisible
D. Invisible, omnipresent

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.

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

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

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”

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