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

2. What does God say on the first day?

3. What does Michael say will eventually happen to the church?

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

5. What does God create when he divides the waters?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What will happen when a tyrant rises?

3. How do the angels comfort Adam?

4. In what way are angels similar to humans?

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

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

7. Why did God create another world?

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

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

10. How does God create another world?

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

Paradise lost is made up of 12 books. Examine the structure of the poem.

1) How does Milton develop the theme of good and evil?

2) Why do Milton actually mention that the story is changing into a tragedy?

3) How does the structure subvert what we already know about the story of the Fall of Man?

Essay Topic 3

Paradise Lost is written in the third person. Why do you think Milton chose to write the poem in the third person? How do you think the meaning of the poem would have changed if it were written in the first person?

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