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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what day does Satan find a way to sneak back to Eden?
(a) The twelveth day
(b) The seventh day
(c) The tenth day
(d) The eighth day

2. How does the serpent claim he gained the gift of speech?
(a) By eating the forbidding fruit
(b) By doing as God says
(c) By listening to Adam and Eve
(d) By studying hard

3. What is happening to the people in the lazar-house?
(a) They are giving birth.
(b) They are dying of terrible diseases.
(c) They are being tortured.
(d) They are talking in different tongues.

4. Who names the animals?
(a) Eve
(b) Michael
(c) God
(d) Adam

5. What will proclaim the savior's coming?
(a) A prophet
(b) A storm
(c) A star
(d) A faceless voice

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the poet warn the reader at the beginning of Book 9?

2. What reason does the serpent give for God not allowing Eve to eat from the tree?

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

4. What does Adam remind Eve in Book 9?

5. What rescues the man from being killed in the war?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does God not stop Satan from destroying paradise?

4. How do Satan's followers meet his announcement that they have destroyed God's creation?

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

6. How does the serpent explain his human speech?

7. How will man get to the promised land?

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

9. Why did God create another world?

10. In what way are angels similar to humans?

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