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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How do Satan's followers respond to his victory?
(a) By booing
(b) By hissing
(c) By stamping
(d) By holding up hell's flag

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By whom has the poet been inspired?

2. How does God know what has happened on Eden?

3. What does Adam reluctantly agree for Eve to do?

4. With what does Raphael say the Son of God goes forward?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What do you think the Creation story illustrates about good and evil?

2. How do Satan's followers meet his announcement that they have destroyed God's creation?

3. How does God create another world?

4. Why did God create another world?

5. Why does Adam still feel hope?

6. What does Adam see in the field?

7. What will be Adam and Eve's punishment?

8. How will Jesus save mankind?

9. Why does God create man and woman?

10. What does Raphael say is man's place in the world?

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