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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. How does God punish the serpent?

2. What two people does Adam see in a field?

3. What punishment does God give Eve?

4. What does God do on the seventh day?

5. Why does Michael say the tyrant will build a tower?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In what way are angels similar to humans?

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

4. Why does God create man and woman?

5. How will Jesus save mankind?

6. Why does Adam still feel hope?

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

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

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

10. What has Adam learned from his experience?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Look at the Fall of Man story that the poem was based upon. What are the similarities between the poem and the story? How much has Milton changed the story? Does Milton's poem have a different meaning from the story in Genesis?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the impact of good and evil within our culture. Do the students think representations of good and evil have had a negative impact on society? Does the division of good and evil make things simpler than what they are? Does Milton subvert any ideas of good and evil in Paradise Lost. How much has the representation of good and evil changed since the 17th Century?

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