What author wrote “Life of Milton” ?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. In , a good example of Milton’s sharp rhetorical prose, Milton denounces restrictive censorship, arguing for freedom of the press ?

   A. “Paradise Lost”
   B. “Samson Agonistes”
   C. “Areopagitica”
   D. “Paradise Regained”

3. Where was John Milton born? Where was John Milton born ?

   A. London
   B. Bristol
   C. Wales
   D. Yorkshire

4. 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

5. What British Romantic author was particularly inspired by the work of John Milton ?

   A. William Blake
   B. Alfred Lord Tennyson
   C. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
   D. T.S. Eliot

6. Denied the right to apply for divorce and facing intense humiliation, John Milton wrote what work ?

   A. “Christian Doctrines”
   B. “On Regicide”
   C. “The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce”
   D. “Paradise Lost”

7. To justify which purpose that Milton wrote Paradise Lost ?

   A. To justify the fall of Lucifer
   B. To justify the loss of paradise
   C. To justify the fall of man
   D. To justify the ways of God to men

8. In 1634 Milton wrote a masque. What’s the name of that masque ?

   A. ’Il Penseroso’
   B. ’Lycidas’
   C. ’Comus’
   D. ’The Masque of Blackness’

9. This author wrote of the Pilgrims’ voyage to the New World ?

   A. Bradford Nelson
   B. William Holden
   C. Nelson Holden
   D. William Bradford

10. Marlowe’s poem ’The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’ begins with the line “Come live with me and be my love”; which other English author wrote a famous poem beginning with this line ?

    A. William Shakespeare
    B. Thomas Kyd
    C. John Dryden
    D. John Donne