PL Quiz

Eve wonders whether "shall I to him make known / [...] But keep the odds of Knowledge [...] render me ________"

C.S. Lewis said: "Adam fell by _______"

After Rest., licenser Thomas Tomkins wanted to censor PL for anti-royalist sentiments&Puritan superstition (GF of Lond)

Milton's work is not explicitly anti-trinitarian, but he believed in a subordinationist doctrine in regards to Christ

Fill in: "Tortures him now more, the more he sees / Of pleasure not for him ______"

Eve asks Adam: "How are we __________ ?"

PL inspired Philip Pullman's ________ which critiques Catholicism and organized religion.

The hypocrisy of Satan is shown when he desires to be: ". . . ."

Who said: "She who thought it beneath her dignity to bow to Adam or God, now worships a vegetable"?

Milton had initially intended his work to be a tragedy called _______

Paradise Lost influenced the _______ because Milton & Satan were examples of republican and anti-establishment movements

Finish: "she pluck'd, she ate: / __________"

Which context links best: "what is Faith, Love, Vertue unassaid / Alone, without exterior help sustaind?"

Milton acknowledged the poem's reception may be lukewarm in Restoration context: may 'fit audience find, though ____' 

___________ is a political treatise written by John Milton in 1649 - a defense of the execution of King Charles I

Afterwards, she considers the possibility of being "__________"

A royalist, John Dryden adapted PL into a play called __________ (1671) which emphasizes Satan's Cromwellian aspect

Milton had controversial beliefs, e.g. the soul dies with the body and will be resurrected with the body on Judgement

One of Milton's intentions behind PL is to "justify the____of God to man"

In the beginning of Book 9, the narrator states: "“I now must change / Those _________”

Milton was ____ and relied upon dictation; his daughters described him as ‘a cow ready for milking’,

Milton's _________ was a 1654 political tract which defended Parliamentary regime controlled by Oliver Cromwell

______ wrote that 'the reason why the poem is so good is that it makes God so bad'

Satan encourages Eve by promising

_______ doesn't see a conflict though since Milton believed God was his 'natural superior' and that KC I was not.

Milton's views on Cromwell were complicated; he praised him early on then, after his death, referred to his gvnmt. as. .

Milton revolted against the Stuart Ideology / idea of a monarch ruling by _______ . He saw the practice as idolatrous.

Who was it that published a controversial, emended version of PL in 1732?

Satan flatters Eve, calling her: "......"

John Leonard interpreted PL's war as civil war as "Milton ____ the English people for [...] executing KC1".

Felix Culpa is a theological concept meaning ____ and is further fulfilled in Milton's sequel 'Paradise Regained' (1671)

The contemp. reception of Andrew Marvell's poem shows how he went from "misdoubting his intent" to. . .

After eating from the tree, Eve regards God as

Fill in: "________ if to hide / Their guilt and dreaded shame: O how unlike / To that first naked glory"

Adam asks Eve to "Let us divide our labours" (9. 214)

Milton's Areopagitica (1644) defended __________ and opposed Parliamentary pre-publication censorship

Puritans are sometimes regarded as a "____________"

Milton's _____ were controversial, arguing for the legitimacy of divorce because of spousal incompatibility.

Milton's epic lead to a series of ______ in the early 18th century since his achievement could not be surpassed

Which Romantic poet wrote that 'Milton's Devil as a moral being is far superior to his God'.

Sean McEvoy: A&E make the "most tragic and fatal error of judgment [...] but not out of self-regard or vindictive anger

Milton was an antimonarchist / regicide defender yet chose a subject that obliged him to defend monarchical authority.

Regarding Adam's lack of responsibility for protecting Eve, Dennis Burden states "Adam, by permitting Eve to go forth...

Finish: "Carnal desire inflaming. He on Eve / Began to cast lascivious eyes, she him / As wantonly repaid; _____"

Dr Johnson said Milton had a "_________ of females, as subordinate and inferior beings"

Caroline Moore: "Paradise Lost is about the act of choice [...] the psychological act of ___________"

Finish: "nothing lovelier can be found / in Woman, then to studie _________"

Nigel Wheale: "Eve is more challenging, more _________ than Adam"

Milton initially wanted to write an epic based on, not Christianity, but. . .

Which Romantic poet said that Milton was "Of the Devil's party without knowing it"

Sandra M. Gilbert:"Eve is the _________ of a woman, deprived of autonomous identity and trained to be obedient"

Milton radically adapts the Bible and licenses innocent, prelapsarian sex in Book ___ of PL (comp. to postlap sex in 9)

PL influenced Mary Shelley who wrote her novel __________ (uses excerpt from Book X), warning of overreaching science