Multiple Choice
Identify the
letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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An oxymoron in Paradise Lost
is
a. | “obdurate pride.” | b. | “hurled headlong.” | c. | “darkness visible.” | d. | “huge affliction and
dismay.” |
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2.
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“To reign is worth ambition, though in
Hell:
Better to reign in Hell than serve in
Heaven”
is an example
of Satan’s
a. | despair. | b. | fatalism. | c. | boasting.
| d. | humanism. |
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3.
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“I may assert Eternal
Providence,
And justify the ways
of God to men.”
The epic characteristic
illustrated by these lines from Paradise Lost is the
a. | epic question. | b. | statement of purpose. | c. | in medias res opening. | d. | answer to the epic question. |
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4.
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When Milton says Adam and Eve were “in that
happy state,” he means that they were
a. | falling in love. | b. | in Heaven. | c. | enjoying a rural
existence. | d. | unaware of
evil. |
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In Paradise Lost, Satan was cast out of
Heaven because
a. | he strove to have equal power with God.
| b. | God wished to bring light to the
darkness. | c. | he wished to deceive the “mother of
mankind.” | d. | God was threatened
by Satan’s increasing wickedness. |
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In Paradise Lost, Satan’s stated
purpose is to
a. | “bow and sue for
grace.” | b. | “discover
sights of woe.” | c. | do God
“mightier service.” | d. | “wage by
force or guile eternal war.” |
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7.
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Milton’s stated purpose in writing
Paradise Lost is to
a. | describe the seduction of Adam and
Eve. | b. | show the justice of God’s actions to humanity.
| c. | narrate the loss of the Garden of
Eden. | d. | support a powerful figure of evil in
Satan. |
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8.
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In the opening lines of Paradise Lost,
Milton’s plea for assistance is
a. | a paradox. | b. | a soliloquy. | c. | an invocation.
| d. | an epigraph. |
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