From whose work did John Milton take the epigraph to his
Areopagitica?
1. Sophocles
2. Euripides
3. Plato
4. More
Answer: 2
Read the lines from the poem:
Alas ! what boots it
with uncessant care To tend the homely, slighted Shepherd’s trade, And strictly
meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport
with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera’s hair ?
Who are Amaryllis and
Neaera in the above extract from John Milton’s “Lycidas”?
1. Both were goddesses of
love and war respectively appearing in Greek pastoral poetry.
2. Amaryllis is a
shepherdess mentioned in Shakespearce’s romantic comedies; Neaera, a minor
character in love’s Labour’s lost
3. Amaryllis is a
shepherdess mentioned in ancient pastoral poetry, notably in Virgil’s
eculogues; Neaera, a nymph who appears in Virgil’s Eclogues.
4. Both were one-time
lovers of Lycidas, the dead shepherd.
Answer: 3
John Milton’s description of gold as a “precious bane”
(Paradise Lost, Book II) is best described as
(1) a dactyl
(2) an oxymoron
(3) enjambment
(4) zeugma
Answer: 2
The famous sonnet of John Milton beginning “When I consider
how my light is spent…” ends with ……………
(1) Before me stares a
wolfish eye, Behind me creeps a groan or sigh
(2) They also serve who
only stand and wait
(3) And – which is more –
you’ll be a Man, my son!
(4) And bless him for the
sake of him that’s gone
Answer: 2
Who among the following English writers opposed the
Licensing Act of 1643?
(A) John Milton
(B) Thomas Browne
(C) Andrew Marvell
(D) Abraham Cowley
Answer: (A)
Which of the following works of John Milton is an elegy ?
(A) Lycidas
(B) L’Allegro
(C) Camus
(D) Paradise Lost
Answer: A
As Adam and Eve leave Paradise, “hand in hand with wand’ring
steps and slow” (Book XII, Paradise Lost) what is their consolation?
(1) They are comforted by
their love for one another.
(2) They are comforted by
their foreknowledge of the coming of Christ as Redeemer of mankind.
(3) They are comforted by
God, who travels before them in the form of a pillar of fire.
(4) They are comforted by
the angel, who holds each of them by the hand.
Answer: 2
In Book 8, Paradise Lost Adam identifies his chief flaw or
weakness to Raphael. What is this flaw?
(1) gluttony
(2) pride in his
superiority to Eve
(3) overconfidence in his
free will
(4) passion for Eve
Answer: 4
Which book of Paradise Lost incorporates the speech rhythms
of Adam and Eve’s marital quarrel?
A. Book 4
B. Book 6
C. Book 7
D. Book 9
Answer: 4
In paradise lost Milton invokes his ‘heavenly muse’,
‘urania’, at the beginning of which two books?
1. Book I
2. Book IV
3. Book IX
4. Book VII
Choose the correct option:
1. (a) and (d)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (c) and (d)
4. (b) and (d)
Answer: 1
Who is the only one of Milton’s contemporaries to be mentioned
by name in Paradise Lost?
1. Francis Bacon
2. Johannes Vermeer
3. Galileo
4. King Charles
Answer: 3
In Paradise Lost which character narrates the story of the
making of Eve from a rib in Adam’s side?
(1) Adam
(2) Eve
(3) Raphael
(4) God
Answer: 1
The opening sixteen lines of Paradise Lost comprise:
(1) One sentence
(2) Two sentences
(3) Three sentences
(4) Four sentences
Answer: 1
In Paradise Lost Milton presents the action of the fall of
man in two stages in Books ………………
(1) IV and IX
(2) IV and VIII
(3) III and IX
(4) V and X
Answer: 1
The phrase “darkness visible” (Paradise Lost, 1.63) is an
example of ……………..
(1) periphrasis
(2) pun
(3) oxymoron
(4) transposition
Answer: 3
What is the name of the angel, who, of those who owed
allegeance to Satan, dared to protest against his impious doctrine and left his
company to return to God (Paradise Lost, Book V)?
(1) Michael
(2) Abdiel
(3) Uriel
(4) Gabriel
Answer: 2
“That glory never shall his wrath or might extort from me.”
(Paradise Lost, Book I) What ‘glory’ is being referred to by Satan?
(A) The courage never to
submit or yield
(B) To reign in Hell
(C) To defeat God
(D) To spread evil
Answer: A
. ________ the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from
th’ Ethereal Sky, With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless
perdition, there to dwell In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire Who durst defy
th’ Omnipotent to Arms. (Paradise Lost, I.44-49.)
Choose the appropriate
word:
(A) Him
(B) He
(C) Satan
(D) The Fiend
Answer: (A)
The phrase, ‘bottomless perdition’ occurs in Milton’s
Paradise Lost in :
(A) Book I
(B) Book IV
(C) Book VI
(D) Book XII
Answer: A
In Paradise Lost BK IX Milton writes that Adam was overcome
with “______” and so ate the forbidden fruit against his “better knowledge”.
(A) “female charm”
(B) “exceeding love”
(C) “faithful love”
(D) “taste so divine”