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