U7 L4 Paradise Lost: Book I

Question 1

What was the state Milton was in when he wrote Paradise Lost?

Answer 1

blind

Question 2

What kind of poem is Paradise Lost?

Answer 2

epic poem

Question 3

What are the settings of Paradise Lost?

Answer 3

Heaven, earth, and hell

Question 4

What are the epic deeds in Paradise Lost?

Answer 4

• angels’ war in heaven
• Christ’s Creation of earth, submission to Crucifixion
• Adam’s acceptance of future outside Eden

Question 5

Does Paradise Lost rhyme?

Answer 5

no

Question 6

What conventions in Paradise Lost prove it is an epic?

Answer 6

• opens with epic theme (justify ways of God to men)
• invocations to Muses
• opens in media res
• catalogs of warriors
• epic similes

Question 7

How many books is Paradise Lost divided into?

Answer 7

12

Question 8

What does invocation mean?

Answer 8

• calling for help

- legal enforcement

Question 9

What does Paradise Lost discuss?

Answer 9

• man’s free will to disobey God or use moral strength to obey God
• comforts man, emphasizing Christ’s mercy and God’s justice
• ‘Justify the ways of God to Men’

Question 10

Book I and II: what is the setting?

Answer 10

hell

Question 11

Book I and II: what led Satan to defy God?

Answer 11

ambition and pride

Question 12

Book I and II: In Satan’s journey, what will help him reach earth?

Answer 12

• Sin
• Death
• Chaos

Question 13

Book I and II: When Satan defied God, he and his forces were driven down to what?

Answer 13

Lake of Fire

Question 14

Book I and II: The devils debate on what?

Answer 14

to fight openly or use cunning

Question 15

Book III: what is the settting?

Answer 15

Heaven

Question 16

Book III: God emphasizes that He had to create Adam with what? Why?

Answer 16

• free will

- loyalty will be voluntary

Question 17

Book III: God’s justice requires that what needs to be sacrificed to save humanity?

Answer 17

life

Question 18

Book III: Who volunteered to sacrifice himself?

Answer 18

Christ

Question 19

Books IV and V: Who does Adam ask to tell him about heavenly things? What is he then told?

Answer 19

• Raphael

- story of fall of angels

Question 20

What book describes the Creation of earth?

Answer 20

VII

Question 21

What book is the telling of Adam and Eve’s creation?

Answer 21

VIII

Question 22

What does Book VI and VIII continue?

Answer 22

Raphael’s story

Question 23

Book IX: What does Satan convince Eve to do? How does Adam react?

Answer 23

• eat fruit of forbidden tree

- despairs, eats fruit to share consequences

Question 24

Books XI and XII: who comforts and instructs Adam before turning him out of Eden with Eve?

Answer 24

Michael

Question 25

What does the ‘one just man’ prevent?

Answer 25

God from destroying mankind

Question 26

Who were the ones who become types of Christ?

Answer 26

• Adam
• Enoch
• Noah
• Abraham

Question 27

What does Satan vow?

Answer 27

bring evil out of God’s good

Question 28

Why did Adam and Eve disobey God?

Answer 28

seduced by Satan

Question 29

The Muse that will inspire Milton also inspired who?

Answer 29

Moses to teach the Creation of earth