1. Christian struggle for salvation is the theme of which of the following?
(A) The Faerie Queene
(B) Prufrock
(C) On His Blindness
(D) Pilgrim’s Progress
2. What is the total number of books in Paradise Lost?
(A) 18
(B) 7
(C) 15
(D) 12
3. Milton’s On His Blindness is a/an
(A) Epic
(B) Sonnet
(C) Elegy
(D) Blank verse
4. The “Lady of Light” was the nickname of which of the following?
(A) Vaughan
(B) Donne
(C) Milton
(D) None of these
5. Which Milton poem is about patience?
(A) Paradise Regained
(B) On His Blindness
(C) Paradise Lost
(D) L’Allegro
6. Which of the following is Milton’s elegy to Edward King?
(A) L’Allegro
(B) Lycidas
(C) Comus
(D) On His Blindness
7. Lycidas of Milton is an
(A) Epic
(B) Masque
(C) Elegy
(D) Comedy
8. Which of Milton’s works is free of Puritanism?
(A) L’Allegro
(B) Il Penseroso
(C) Both (A) & (B)
(D) None of these
9. In Lycidas, Edward King has been presented as a
(A) Shepherd
(B) Poet
(C) Priest
(D) None of these
10. Which poet helped Milton in writing when he became blind?
(A) Henry Vaughan
(B) Donne
(C) Andrew Marvell
(D) None of these
11. “I was born in London of an honest family. I hardly ever left my studies or went to bed before midnight.” Milton said this in
(A) Second Defence of the English People
(B) Comus
(C) Samson Agonistes
(D) Paradise Lost
12. Milton’s Comus was published in
(A) 1654
(B) 1644
(C) 1634
(D) 1664
13. Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes were published together in
(A) 1610
(B) 1617
(C) 1607
(D) 1671
14. Comus was published in 1637 by
(A) Anonymously
(B) Oxford
(C) Henry Lewes
(D) Milton
15. Puritanism has Milton as its
(A) Preacher
(B) Singer
(C) Playwright
(D) Priest
16. Who is considered the greatest Puritan poet?
(A) Donne
(B) Spenser
(C) Milton
(D) Herbert
17. Paradise Lost is written in which verse form?
(A) Rhymed couplets
(B) Blank verse
(C) Heroic stanzas
(D) Ballad form
18. How many lines are there in a Miltonic sonnet?
(A) 12
(B) 14
(C) 16
(D) 18
19. Which poem by Milton defends freedom of the press?
(A) Comus
(B) Areopagitica
(C) Lycidas
(D) Il Penseroso
20. Milton’s masque Comus deals with the theme of
(A) Love
(B) Chastity
(C) War
(D) Patriotism
21. Milton’s early poetry is influenced mainly by
(A) Greek tradition
(B) Elizabethan poets
(C) Italian poets
(D) Roman satire
22. Who was Lycidas in Milton’s poem?
(A) His brother
(B) His friend
(C) His teacher
(D) His rival
23. What kind of poem is L’Allegro?
(A) Pastoral elegy
(B) Masque
(C) Lyric poem
(D) Satire
24. Milton’s political prose supports
(A) Monarchy
(B) Republicanism
(C) Aristocracy
(D) Dictatorship
25. In Samson Agonistes, Samson is portrayed as a symbol of
(A) Love
(B) National strength
(C) Wisdom
(D) Wealth
26. Il Penseroso celebrates
(A) Melancholy
(B) Happiness
(C) War
(D) Love
27. Milton served as Latin Secretary to
(A) Cromwell
(B) Charles I
(C) James I
(D) Charles II
28. Which of the following is Milton’s prose work?
(A) Lycidas
(B) Comus
(C) Areopagitica
(D) Il Penseroso
29. What is the central theme of Paradise Lost?
(A) War
(B) The fall of man
(C) Love
(D) Puritan politics
30. Satan’s famous line “Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven” occurs in
(A) Paradise Regained
(B) Areopagitica
(C) Paradise Lost
(D) Samson Agonistes
31. Milton wrote most of his later works in
(A) France
(B) Blindness
(C) Italy
(D) Cambridge
32. Who influenced Milton most among classical poets?
(A) Virgil
(B) Homer
(C) Ovid
(D) Euripides
33. What is Paradise Regained mainly about?
(A) The Crucifixion
(B) The Temptation of Christ
(C) The Resurrection
(D) The Creation
34. Milton’s masque Comus is also known as
(A) A Divine Comedy
(B) A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle
(C) A Puritan Drama
(D) A Protestant Allegory
35. Which epic inspired Milton’s Paradise Lost?
(A) The Aeneid
(B) The Iliad
(C) The Odyssey
(D) The Divine Comedy
36. Milton described marriage as
(A) A religious duty
(B) A civil contract
(C) A social ceremony
(D) A holy sacrament
37. Milton’s sonnets are mostly
(A) Italian (Petrarchan)
(B) Shakespearean
(C) Spenserian
(D) Free verse
38. Samson Agonistes is modeled on
(A) Greek tragedy
(B) Roman satire
(C) Elizabethan comedy
(D) Medieval allegory
39. Milton’s style in Paradise Lost is characterized by
(A) Simplicity
(B) Ornateness and grandeur
(C) Short sentences
(D) Satire
40. Milton referred to his blindness as
(A) A curse
(B) Inner light
(C) Punishment
(D) Weakness
41. Lycidas was written in memory of
(A) Edward King
(B) Charles I
(C) Oliver Cromwell
(D) Ben Jonson
42. Which book of Paradise Lost describes the creation of the world?
(A) Book IX
(B) Book VII
(C) Book I
(D) Book XI
43. How does Milton justify the ways of God to man?
(A) Through philosophy
(B) Through politics
(C) Through poetry in Paradise Lost
(D) Through sermons
44. Milton married his first wife, Mary Powell, in
(A) 1639
(B) 1642
(C) 1645
(D) 1649
45. Milton’s Areopagitica was written in defense of
(A) Education
(B) Liberty of press
(C) Marriage laws
(D) Religious tolerance
46. Milton was born in the year
(A) 1605
(B) 1608
(C) 1612
(D) 1615
47. Milton died in the year
(A) 1671
(B) 1674
(C) 1678
(D) 1680
48. Milton studied at
(A) Cambridge
(B) Oxford
(C) London University
(D) Paris University
49. The verse form of Paradise Regained is
(A) Blank verse
(B) Heroic couplet
(C) Rhyme royal
(D) Sonnet form
50. Milton is often called the
(A) Poet of Reason
(B) Poet of Puritanism
(C) Poet of Love
(D) Poet of Romance
51. Milton’s Paradise Lost was first published in
(A) 1667
(B) 1671
(C) 1658
(D) 1681
52. In which revised edition was Paradise Lost divided into 12 books?
(A) 1667
(B) 1674
(C) 1678
(D) 1685
53. Which of the following is NOT a character in Paradise Lost?
(A) Satan
(B) Beelzebub
(C) Mammon
(D) Hector
54. Milton’s blindness occurred in the year
(A) 1648
(B) 1652
(C) 1660
(D) 1667
55. Milton’s L’Allegro and Il Penseroso are
(A) Religious poems
(B) Pastoral lyrics
(C) Epics
(D) Tragedies
56. The “invocation to light” occurs in which book of Paradise Lost?
(A) Book I
(B) Book III
(C) Book VII
(D) Book IX
57. Who is the main hero of Paradise Lost according to Romantic critics?
(A) Adam
(B) Satan
(C) Raphael
(D) Christ
58. Milton’s father was by profession a
(A) Teacher
(B) Lawyer
(C) Musician
(D) Merchant
59. Milton’s Paradise Regained was suggested by
(A) Thomas Ellwood
(B) Ben Jonson
(C) Spenser
(D) John Donne
60. Which angel leads the army of Heaven against Satan?
(A) Raphael
(B) Michael
(C) Gabriel
(D) Uriel
61. In Paradise Lost, which angel warns Adam of Satan’s plans?
(A) Michael
(B) Raphael
(C) Gabriel
(D) Uriel
62. Which epic simile is used frequently in Paradise Lost?
(A) Homeric simile
(B) Italian simile
(C) Spenserian simile
(D) Heroic simile
63. Who among the following admired Milton as the “greatest English poet”?
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Pope
(C) Dryden
(D) Johnson
64. Milton’s Areopagitica was written in
(A) 1640
(B) 1644
(C) 1652
(D) 1660
65. Milton’s Paradise Lost begins with the story of
(A) The creation
(B) The fall of Satan
(C) The temptation of Eve
(D) The expulsion from Eden
66. Which ruler’s fall is allegorically connected with Paradise Lost?
(A) Charles I
(B) Charles II
(C) James I
(D) Cromwell
67. Milton’s literary career is generally divided into how many phases?
(A) Two
(B) Three
(C) Four
(D) Five
68. Milton’s Samson Agonistes is written in the style of
(A) Sophocles
(B) Euripides
(C) Aeschylus
(D) All of these
69. Milton’s masque Comus was written to celebrate
(A) The marriage of Edward King
(B) The installation of Earl of Bridgewater
(C) The coronation of Charles I
(D) The birth of Cromwell’s son
70. The theme of On His Blindness is
(A) War
(B) Patience and faith in God
(C) Knowledge
(D) Power
71. Milton’s wife Mary Powell left him after marriage because of
(A) Religious differences
(B) Political differences
(C) Personal quarrels
(D) All of these
72. Milton was imprisoned after the fall of
(A) Cromwell
(B) Charles I
(C) Charles II
(D) James I
73. Milton was released from prison due to the influence of
(A) Dryden
(B) Marvell
(C) Pope
(D) Bunyan
74. Which character in Paradise Lost embodies wisdom and obedience?
(A) Satan
(B) Eve
(C) Adam
(D) Abdiel
75. Which book of Paradise Lost describes the fall of man?
(A) Book VII
(B) Book IX
(C) Book XI
(D) Book XII
76. The famous line “They also serve who only stand and wait” is from
(A) Lycidas
(B) On His Blindness
(C) Paradise Lost
(D) Samson Agonistes
77. Milton called poetry a
(A) Divine gift
(B) Sacred duty
(C) Serious work
(D) Fit audience though few
78. Milton’s prose style is
(A) Simple
(B) Ornate and Latinate
(C) Satirical
(D) Plain
79. In Lycidas, the poet invokes which Muse?
(A) Calliope
(B) Clio
(C) Urania
(D) None of these
80. Milton’s contemporaries included
(A) Dryden
(B) Donne
(C) Herbert
(D) All of these
81. Milton believed poetry should combine
(A) Delight and truth
(B) Knowledge and power
(C) Fancy and wit
(D) Rhythm and beauty
82. Milton’s religious views were
(A) Catholic
(B) Anglican
(C) Puritan
(D) Protestant (Independent)
83. The style of Milton’s blank verse is often described as
(A) Miltonic
(B) Shakespearean
(C) Homeric
(D) Classical
84. In Samson Agonistes, Samson’s blindness symbolizes
(A) Weakness
(B) Punishment
(C) Spiritual insight
(D) Ignorance
85. Milton referred to his poetry as
(A) Work of nature
(B) Work of imagination
(C) Work of inspiration
(D) Work of obedience
86. Milton was against
(A) Press censorship
(B) Royal absolutism
(C) Religious intolerance
(D) All of these
87. Milton’s ideal of the poet is
(A) Prophet and teacher
(B) Artist only
(C) Lover of beauty
(D) Entertainer
88. Milton’s pastoral elegy Lycidas follows the tradition of
(A) Virgil and Theocritus
(B) Dante and Petrarch
(C) Homer and Hesiod
(D) Chaucer and Langland
89. The main setting of Paradise Lost is
(A) Heaven, Hell, and Eden
(B) Only Earth
(C) Only Heaven
(D) Only Hell
90. Milton admired which Italian poet most?
(A) Petrarch
(B) Tasso
(C) Dante
(D) Ariosto
91. Milton’s conception of Satan influenced later poets like
(A) Blake and Shelley
(B) Wordsworth and Coleridge
(C) Byron and Keats
(D) All of these
92. Milton believed true liberty meant
(A) Political freedom
(B) Religious freedom
(C) Intellectual freedom
(D) All of these
93. The main theme of Comus is
(A) Virtue vs. vice
(B) Love vs. hate
(C) Knowledge vs. ignorance
(D) Man vs. nature
94. Milton’s Of Education (1644) proposed
(A) A narrow curriculum
(B) A broad humanistic education
(C) Only religious study
(D) Only science study
95. Milton’s influence is especially visible in
(A) Romantic poetry
(B) Victorian prose
(C) 20th-century drama
(D) Modernist poetry
96. Milton’s favorite Greek dramatist was
(A) Sophocles
(B) Euripides
(C) Aeschylus
(D) Aristophanes
97. Milton’s Nativity Ode was written in
(A) 1629
(B) 1634
(C) 1644
(D) 1652
98. The verse of Paradise Lost is primarily
(A) Heroic couplets
(B) Iambic pentameter blank verse
(C) Trochaic tetrameter
(D) Free verse
99. Milton’s poetic career began with
(A) Pastoral poetry
(B) Epic poetry
(C) Dramatic poetry
(D) Satire
100. Milton’s poetry and prose strongly reflect his
(A) Political convictions
(B) Religious faith
(C) Classical learning
(D) All of these