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- John Milton’s “Lycidas” is best described by which of the following genres ?
MCQs: John Milton’s “Lycidas” is best described by which of the following genres ?
MCQs 1: 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 2: 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 3: In “Samson Agonistes,” Samson’s father, Manoa, is trying to get Samson freed from imprisonment mainly so he can help Samson to____________?
MCQs 4: Near the end of “Samson Agonistes,” Samson resists performing before attendants of what type of event ?
MCQs 5: John Milton’s “Samson Agonistes” is best described by which of the following genres ?
MCQs 6: John Milton was inspired by the previous works of what authors ?
Homer, Virgil, and Dante
Dante, Spenser, and Pope
Homer, Dryden, and Longfellow
Virgil, Shakespeare, and Jane Austen
MCQs 7: What poet was famous for his “Eclogues” ?
MCQs 8: Even in John Milton’s lifetime, “Paradise Regained” was considered in literary quality as largely to “Paradise Lost.” ?
MCQs 9: What Biblical story acts as a springboard for John Milton’s “Paradise Regained” ?
MCQs 10: was the companion in publication to John Milton’s “Paradise Regained.” ?
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