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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. What punishment does God give Eve?

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

3. How are the reaper and the shepherd related to Adam?

4. What does the reaper use to beat the shepherd to death?

5. Which two brothers are sent to lead their people back to the promised land?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Adam see on the plain?

3. In what way does Raphael say woman is inferior to man?

4. Why does God create man and woman?

5. How does God create another world?

6. Why did God create another world?

7. What is Adam's reason for wanting a mate?

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

9. What has Adam learned from his experience?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the characters from the poem.

1) What is the character's background.

2) What are the character's motivation and goals?

3) What do you think the character adds to the story? How would the poem change if the character were taken away?

Essay Topic 2

Satan destroys God's creation because he wants to be heard and not ordered. Do you think Milton represents God as someone who refuses to listen? Does God oppress Satan and his followers? Can you understand why Satan revolted against heaven?

Essay Topic 3

Use examples from the poem to argue for or against the following statement: "Milton makes Satan a complex and almost likable character in order to express the complexity of good and evil."

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