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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 Eve?
(a) The loss of her beauty
(b) The inability to love
(c) A constant headache
(d) Pain in childbirth

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

3. Into what have Satan's followers been transformed?
(a) Hedgehogs
(b) Serpents
(c) Cows
(d) Pigs

4. What does God take from Adam to create woman?
(a) A rib
(b) A femur
(c) Mucus
(d) A spinal column

5. What does God say will happen to Adam if he eats from the tree of knowledge?
(a) He will lose his looks.
(b) He will spend eternity alone.
(c) He will die
(d) He will grow lazy and stupid.

6. How does the serpent claim he gained the gift of speech?
(a) By eating the forbidding fruit
(b) By studying hard
(c) By doing as God says
(d) By listening to Adam and Eve

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

8. Where do Moses and Aaron find their new nation?
(a) Canaan
(b) Persia
(c) Egypt
(d) Israel

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

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

11. What does God do on the seventh day?
(a) Rests
(b) Has lunch with Adam
(c) Walks around his creation
(d) Draws up a set of rules

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does God order to drive man out of paradise?

2. Whose help does the author go to for to continue the story?

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

4. What does God create on the fifth day?

5. What is happening to the people in the lazar-house?

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