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John Milton
  • 1. When was John Milton born?
A) 1700
B) 1500
C) 1808
D) 1608
  • 2. Which famous epic poem did John Milton write?
A) Paradise Lost
B) Don Quixote
C) The Iliad
D) Romeo and Juliet
  • 3. Where did John Milton attend university?
A) Sorbonne
B) Harvard
C) Cambridge
D) Oxford
  • 4. In which language did John Milton write his works?
A) English
B) French
C) Greek
D) Latin
  • 5. Which political figure did John Milton serve under?
A) Queen Elizabeth I
B) Henry VIII
C) Oliver Cromwell
D) Napoleon Bonaparte
  • 6. What is the title of Milton's famous essay on censorship and freedom of speech?
A) Areopagitica
B) The Prince
C) Leviathan
D) The Divine Comedy
  • 7. Which disability did John Milton develop later in life?
A) Speech impairment
B) Deafness
C) Paralysis
D) Blindness
  • 8. What is the title of Milton's pastoral elegy written in memory of a friend?
A) Moby Dick
B) Lycidas
C) Walden
D) The Canterbury Tales
  • 9. Which of the following works by Milton is a masque?
A) Paradise Regained
B) Comus
C) The Waste Land
D) The Odyssey
  • 10. Which literary device is prominently used in Milton's works?
A) Palindrome
B) Epic simile
C) Haiku
D) Limerick
  • 11. What is the title of Milton's treatise on Christian doctrine?
A) The Origin of Species
B) The Communist Manifesto
C) De Doctrina Christiana
D) The Wealth of Nations
  • 12. Which poet influenced Milton's style and thematic concerns?
A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B) William Shakespeare
C) Geoffrey Chaucer
D) Edmund Spenser
  • 13. In which year was John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' first published?
A) 1776
B) 1550
C) 1682
D) 1667
  • 14. Which biblical figure plays a central role in 'Paradise Lost'?
A) Satan
B) Jesus
C) Abraham
D) Moses
  • 15. What is the meter used in Milton's blank verse poetry?
A) Trochaic tetrameter
B) Iambic pentameter
C) Dactylic hexameter
D) Spondaic octameter
  • 16. Which king was restored to the English throne after the Interregnum period during Milton's lifetime?
A) Charles II
B) William the Conqueror
C) George III
D) James I
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