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

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

3. What does Eve leave to do at the beginning of Book 8?
(a) Collect some fruit
(b) Meet Satan
(c) Tend to the plants
(d) Kill some serpents

4. What does Michael say the tyrant and his followers will build?
(a) A tower
(b) A hospital
(c) A palace
(d) A city

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After whose image has Eve been fashioned?

2. What does God do on the seventh day?

3. What does God say will happen to Adam if he eats from the tree of knowledge?

4. What two things does God say his Son will be?

5. What reason does Adam give for hiding?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the serpent explain his human speech?

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

3. How does God create another world?

4. How will man get to the promised land?

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

6. What does Adam see in the field?

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

8. Why does God create man and woman?

9. How will Jesus save mankind?

10. Why does Adam also decide to eat the fruit?

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