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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does Adam give for hiding?
(a) His nakedness made him ashamed.
(b) He was keeping away from Eve.
(c) He has disobeyed God.
(d) He wanted to see how all knowing God was.

2. From who will the new nation spring?
(a) Abel
(b) Adam
(c) Joseph
(d) Abraham

3. What does Eve think is the source of life?
(a) Adam
(b) Her womb
(c) God
(d) The rain

4. What punishment does God give Eve?
(a) The loss of her beauty
(b) Pain in childbirth
(c) The inability to love
(d) A constant headache

5. How does God punish the serpent?
(a) Takes away its speech
(b) Makes it extinct
(c) Makes it the lowest of beasts
(d) Makes it cold blooded

6. What does God create on the sixth day?
(a) Insects
(b) Fish
(c) Beasts
(d) Cats

7. What will happen when the church becomes corrupted?
(a) Earth will be destroyed.
(b) The Messiah will come again.
(c) God himself will come down to earth.
(d) A great holy war will break out.

8. By whom has the poet been inspired?
(a) The Son of God
(b) Satan
(c) God
(d) The goddess

9. How does God know what has happened on Eden?
(a) Satan has been boasting of his victory.
(b) He is all-knowing.
(c) He has spies everywhere.
(d) Raphael saw the whole thing.

10. What does the good man build in Book 11?
(a) An ark
(b) A statue
(c) A lake
(d) A palace

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

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

13. What does Adam realize is the highest victory?
(a) Defeating Satan
(b) Fallin gin love
(c) Getting back to paradise
(d) Suffering for truth's sake

14. Why is woman inferior to man?
(a) She is a simpler creature.
(b) She bears less resemblance to God.
(c) She cannot speak.
(d) She is made from a rib.

15. What is happening to the people in the lazar-house?
(a) They are talking in different tongues.
(b) They are dying of terrible diseases.
(c) They are giving birth.
(d) They are being tortured.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Satan's followers eat fruit from the trees?

2. What does the reaper use to beat the shepherd to death?

3. What creature does Satan choose for his purpose?

4. What does Michael say the tyrant and his followers will build?

5. Which two brothers are sent to lead their people back to the promised land?

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