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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eating from the tree of knowledge would make Adam and Eve equal to ____________.

2. What reason does Satan give for wanting to find the new world?

3. Which two characters fight in this chapter?

4. Into what tree does Satan fly?

5. What are Adam and Eve wearing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why can Satan not be redeemed?

2. Who are the Chief Demons?

3. Why does God congratulate the returning Abdiel?

4. How do the spirits of Hell amuse themselves while Satan is away?

5. Why is the knowledge of information different from the knowledge of experience?

6. How does Satan think they can defeat God?

7. What is Satan troubled with as he comes down from the sky?

8. In what does Hell have an advantage over Heaven?

9. Why has God chosen knowledge as the forbidden fruit?

10. How does Adam comfort Eve when she worries about her dream?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Milton wrote Paradise Lost in the 17th Century. Think about the world and, in particular, Britain during this period and discuss whether the book reflects what was happening.

1) What are the book's themes? Do they relate to Britain's political or social environment in the 17th Century? If so, how?

2) Is Milton's vision a direct result of what was happening in the world at that time?

Essay Topic 2

What is blank verse? What meaning do the students think it can convey in comparison to lyric poetry? Why do the students think John Milton uses blank verse in Paradise Lost? What kind of texture does it give the poem?

Essay Topic 3

Look at the Fall of Man story that the poem was based upon. What are the similarities between the poem and the story? How much has Milton changed the story? Does Milton's poem have a different meaning from the story in Genesis?

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