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