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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. Who names the animals?

2. What time do Adam and Eve agree to meet?

3. What does the angel tell Adam a woman should never be allowed to do?

4. By whom has the poet been inspired?

5. Why is woman inferior to man?

Short Essay Questions

1. How will man get to the promised land?

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

3. How do Adam and Eve come to terms with leaving paradise?

4. How does God create another world?

5. How will Jesus save mankind?

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

7. Why does Adam still feel hope?

8. Why does Adam want Eve to stay with him?

9. Why did God create another world?

10. Why does God create man and woman?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do you think Milton represents Hell as he does? Is it more serious than modern day representations? What sort of tone does Milton's Hell give to the poem? How would this tone change if you swapped Milton's representation for a more modern day representation?

Essay Topic 2

Milton presents Satan's main problem as his pride. When does pride become destructive? Are people only proud of what they have achieved? How is Satan proud?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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