English Literature MCQs

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Even in John Milton’s lifetime, “Paradise Regained” was considered in literary quality as largely to “Paradise Lost.” ?


asuperior


binferior


cequal


dirrelevant in comparison


View Answer inferior

What poet was famous for his “Eclogues” ?


aVirgil


bShakespeare


cChaucer


dA and B


View Answer Virgil

John Milton was inspired by the previous works of what authors ?


aHomer, Virgil, and Dante


bDante, Spenser, and Pope


cHomer, Dryden, and Longfellow


dVirgil, Shakespeare, and Jane Austen



John Milton’s “Samson Agonistes” is best described by which of the following genres ?


aPastoral elegy


bProse polemic


cBlank verse tragedy


dMasque


View Answer Blank verse tragedy

Near the end of “Samson Agonistes,” Samson resists performing before attendants of what type of event ?


aGreek Olympic Games


bA Roman Circus


cA Gladiator competition


dA and B


View Answer A and B

In “Samson Agonistes,” Samson’s father, Manoa, is trying to get Samson freed from imprisonment mainly so he can help Samson to____________?


aget revenge on his enemies


bre-instated as a Judge


cretire


dconvert


View Answer retire

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 ?


athe prediction is never fulfilled.


bthe prophet Enoch had made the same prediction centuries earlier.


cSamson doesn’t know he himself will fulfill the prediction.


dthe prediction is finally fulfilled much later when Jesus defeats Dagon



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.”


aTransubstantiation


bFree will


cPredestination


dSufficience


View Answer Free will

John Milton’s “Lycidas” is best described by which of the following genres ?


aPastoral elegy


bProse polemic


cBlank verse tragedy


dMasque


View Answer Pastoral elegy

The foundation story of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” derives from what text ?


aThe Book of “Genesis”


bThe Book of “Revelations”


c“The Odyssey”


d“Canterbury Tales”



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