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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the angel tell Adam a woman should never be allowed to do?
(a) Rule him
(b) Speak to him
(c) Leave the house
(d) Work

2. Whose help does the author go to for to continue the story?
(a) Satan
(b) Uriel
(c) God
(d) Urania

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

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

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

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

7. 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 grow lazy and stupid.
(c) He will die
(d) He will spend eternity alone.

8. Which character infects man?
(a) Chaos
(b) Death
(c) Sin
(d) Gluttony

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

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

11. What does the Son of God use to draw the circumference of Heaven and Earth?
(a) A golden compass
(b) A golden pencil
(c) A silver compass
(d) A silver pen

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

13. From whom does Eve prefer to learn?
(a) The angels
(b) Adam
(c) Mother Nature
(d) God

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

15. What does the poet warn the reader at the beginning of Book 9?
(a) The story is about to end.
(b) The reader may lose interest.
(c) The story is about to become a melodrama.
(d) The story is to become a tragedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what is Michael to guard paradise?

2. From where does Michael say men's woes come?

3. What punishment does God give Eve?

4. What will proclaim the savior's coming?

5. On what day does Satan find a way to sneak back to Eden?

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