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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What punishment does God give Adam?
(a) To feel tiredness
(b) To descend into hell
(c) To eat bread made form his own labor
(d) To know evil

2. Why does Michael say the tyrant will build a tower?
(a) To gain lasting fame
(b) To climb to heaven
(c) To be live above man
(d) To be all seeing

3. What will God promise Abraham?
(a) Eternal peace
(b) Children
(c) A beautiful wife
(d) Land

4. What rescues the man from being killed in the war?
(a) A cloud
(b) A child
(c) A whirlwind
(d) A bolt of lightning

5. What does Adam say he has been comparing at the beginning of Book 8?
(a) The sun and the moon
(b) Animals and humans
(c) The earth and the sky
(d) Man and woman

6. Where did God send Raphael while he created earth?
(a) The Moon
(b) Jupiter
(c) Eden
(d) Hell

7. What three things does God create on the fifth day?
(a) Flowers, plants and trees
(b) Reptiles, fish and birds
(c) Man, woman and animal
(d) Birds, bees and trees

8. What does God create on the fifth day?
(a) The sea and the land
(b) The clouds and the sky
(c) The moon, the stars and the sun
(d) Countries

9. Who names the animals?
(a) Eve
(b) Adam
(c) God
(d) Michael

10. With what is Michael to guard paradise?
(a) His fire breath
(b) His army of angels
(c) His electric axe
(d) His flaming sword

11. What is God's final creation?
(a) Trees
(b) Apes
(c) Man
(d) Air

12. What story does Adam now ask Raphael to tell?
(a) Creation
(b) Satan's upbringing
(c) God's upbringing
(d) Noah's Ark

13. What two things does God say his Son will be?
(a) Savior and Light
(b) Judge and Redeemer
(c) Man and Redeemer
(d) Judge and Savior

14. What does God create when he divides the waters?
(a) Sky and sea
(b) Heaven and earth
(c) Continents
(d) Air and sky

15. What does the reaper use to beat the shepherd to death?
(a) An scyth
(b) A stick
(c) A stone
(d) His own fists

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Adam give for hiding?

2. What does the good man build in Book 11?

3. What time do Adam and Eve agree to meet?

4. By whom has the poet been inspired?

5. To what tree does the serpent lead Eve?

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