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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. From who will the new nation spring?

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

3. What does God create on the sixth day?

4. After whose image has Eve been fashioned?

5. Why is woman inferior to man?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Adam still feel hope?

2. In what way are angels similar to humans?

3. How does God create another world?

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

5. What has Adam learned from his experience?

6. What does Adam see in the field?

7. Why does God create man and woman?

8. How do the angels comfort Adam?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Pick two different settings in the novel and discuss how different characters act in different settings and the reasons why. For example, what is it about Paradise that makes Satan so uncomfortable?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

What are the first examples of Satan in fiction? How has the the representation of Satan developed over the years? What are the differences between the representation of Satan in the 17th Century compared to today?

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