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- According to John Milton, political offices were to be filled by______________?
MCQs: According to John Milton, political offices were to be filled by______________?
MCQs 1: In the Oliver Cromwell “Commonwealth” and “Protectorate” administrations, Milton served as the British government’s chief ?
MCQs 2: Unlike the gods and goddesses of classical epics, John Milton’s God in “Paradise Lost” is and____________?
MCQs 3: In the “Book of Job,” Satan speaks to what figure(s) ?
MCQs 4: John Milton claimed from an early age that he would become ?
England’s first poet
England’s first dramatist
England’s poet laureate
England’s greatest civil engineer
MCQs 5: What important event(s) occur(s) in John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” immediately after Eve first eats of the Tree of Knowledge ?
Nature is immediately wounded by Eve’s transgression.
Satan is immediately wounded by Eve’s transgression.
Raphael is immediately wounded by Eve’s transgression.
Abdiel immediately flees the Council of Rebel Angels.
MCQs 6: The foundation story of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” derives from what text ?
MCQs 7: John Milton’s “Lycidas” is best described by which of the following genres ?
MCQs 8: In Book Three of “Paradise Lost,” God the Father alludes to what theological principle in the following quotation: “I made him [Adam] just and right, / Sufficient to have stood though free to fall.”
MCQs 9: Despite Samson’s defeat and shame, Samson predicts that God will “arise and his great name assert” by making Dagon receive “Such a discomfit, as shall quite despoil him / Of all these boasted Trophies won on me / And with confusion blank his Worshippers” (467–71). This prediction is interesting because ?
the prediction is never fulfilled.
the prophet Enoch had made the same prediction centuries earlier.
Samson doesn’t know he himself will fulfill the prediction.
the prediction is finally fulfilled much later when Jesus defeats Dagon
MCQs 10: In “Samson Agonistes,” Samson’s father, Manoa, is trying to get Samson freed from imprisonment mainly so he can help Samson to____________?
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