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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. On what story does Adam ask Raphael to elaborate?

2. What does Satan say hypocrisy is?

3. Where do Adam and Eve meet Raphael?

4. Where do the spirits fight battles?

5. What does Michael cause Satan to experience for the first time?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Satan motivate his troops in Book 6?

2. How does Satan think they can defeat God?

3. Why would machines be a good idea in Satan's fight against God?

4. What theme do Satan's doubts introduce to the poem?

5. Why does God congratulate the returning Abdiel?

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

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

8. How does Uriel recognize Satan as an evil spirit?

9. Describe the doubts that Satan has in Book 4.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using examples to support your argument, discuss the following statement: "Milton's poem is not too close to the Bible story to express anything that is different."

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

Examine blank verse.

1) What do you think blank verse expresses that other forms of poetry do not? How different would Paradise Lost be if it were written in lyrical form?

2) What kind of poets from the past and present have used blank verse? Why do you think though chose blank verse to express their ideas?

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