A. ’L’Allegro’
B. ’Lycidas’
C. ’Il Penseroso’
D. ’Absolom and Achitophel’
Related Mcqs:
- Where was John Milton born? Where was John Milton born ?
A. London
B. Bristol
C. Wales
D. Yorkshire - A critic examining John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” focuses on the physical description of the Garden of Eden, on the symbols of hands, seed, and flower, and on the characters of Adam, Eve, Satan, and God. He pays special attention to the epic similes and metaphors and the point of view from which the tale is being told. He looks for meaning in the text itself, and does not refer to any biography of Milton. He is most likely a critic ?
A. Reader Response
B. Feminist
C. Mimetic
D. Formalist - Which of the following themes or subjects was not common in the works of Cavalier poets, such as Thomas Carew, Sir John Denham, Edmund Walter, Sir John Suckling, James Shirely, Richard Lovelace, and Robert Herrick ?
A. courtly ideals of the good life
B. carpe diem
C. loyalty to the king
D. pious devotion to religious virtues - John Milton was inspired by the previous works of what authors ?
A. Homer, Virgil, and Dante
B. Dante, Spenser, and Pope
C. Homer, Dryden, and Longfellow
D. Virgil, Shakespeare, and Jane Austen - Fill in the blank. In the second edition of_________________, John Foxe promised that he would edit a collection of the works of William Tyndale, John Frith, and Robert Barnes?
A. “Acts and Monuments”
B. “Utopia”
C. “Euphues”
D. “Paradise Regained” - John Milton’s “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso” are companion poems and are both written in ?
A. iambic pentameter
B. tetrameter couplets
C. heroic couplets
D. Shakespearean sonnets - John Milton’s “Paradise Regained” is written in a(n) style ?
A. plain
B. luminescent
C. Latinate
D. Sophistic - In literature, some of Shakespeare’s most powerful plays were written in that period (for example The Tempest, King Lear, and Macbeth), as well as powerful works by John Webster and ______________?
A. William Shakespeare
B. Ben Jonson
C. Ben Jonson folios
D. English Renaissance theatre - Edward King, a minor poet and a contemporary of Milton’s at Cambridge, was drowned at sea in 1637. Milton wrote an elegy for him. What was the title of this poem ?
A. lycidas
B. Paradise Lost
C. II penseroso
D. none of the above - As well as poetry, Milton published extensively on politics, philosophy and religion. Which of the following was NOT one of his works ?
A. Of Prelatical Episcopacy
B. The Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings from the Church
C. Of Practical Exorcisme
D. Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
