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741. How many times does Satan work to tempt Jesus in the Gospels ?
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A. Two

B. Four

C. One

D. Three
742. What author wrote Life of Milton ?
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A. Edmund Spencer

B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

C. Samuel Johnson

D. T. S. Eliot

743. Which Poem caused Miltons stature as a poet to be recognized ?
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A. Il Penseroso

B. Lycidas

C. Areopagitica

D. Paradise Lost
744. Faustus asks two magicians to aid him in summoning the devil. What are their names ?
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A. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

B. Valdes and Cornelius

C. Troilus and Cressida

D. Pyramus and Thisbe

745. In Book One of Paradise Lost, the narrator identifies the fallen angels or devils by what names ?
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A. The names of the angels they will become

B. Their surnames

C. The names of pagan gods

D. The names of foreign countries

746. The English masque has its origins in the traditions of what European country ?
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A. Italy

B. Spain

C. Germany

D. France

747. Who wrote following lines: _________ I am involved in mankind: and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. ?
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A. Earnest Hemingway

B. Lawrence

C. John Donne

D. John Milton

748. John Milton was inspired by the previous works of what authors ?
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A. Homer, Dryden, and Longfellow

B. Virgil, Shakespeare, and Jane Austen

C. Dante, Spenser, and Pope

D. Homer, Virgil, and Dante
749. Who declared him as Britains greatest dramatist in 1598 ?
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A. Francis Meres, a lawyer

B. Queen Elizabeth

C. Burbage, an actor

D. King James

750. Greville was biographer of ?
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A. Sir Philip Sidney

B. John Milton

C. John Donne

D. Edmund Spencer

751. When did John Milton die ?
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A. 9 December 1670

B. 22 June 1675

C. 8 November 1674

D. 14 February 1669

752. What was the profession of Thomas Hammond under whom John Keats joined for apprenticeship ?
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A. banker

B. lawyer

C. surgeon

D. teacher

753. In , a good example of Miltons sharp rhetorical prose, Milton denounces restrictive censorship, arguing for freedom of the press ?
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A. Paradise Regained

B. Areopagitica

C. Paradise Lost

D. Samson Agonistes

754. Which book Edmund Spenser dedicated to the Philip Sidney ?
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A. Complaints

B. Colin Clouts come home again

C. The shepheaedes Calendar

D. The Faerie Queene

755. The character named Comus is often seen by critics as a prototype of what character Milton later portrayed ?
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A. Samson

B. Jesus

C. Adam

D. Satan
756. In which style did John Milton write the poem Paradise Lost ?
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A. Free verse

B. Vers libre

C. blank verse

D. Regular meter

757. John Miltons Samson Agonistes is best described by which of the following genres ?
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A. Masque

B. Pastoral elegy

C. Blank verse tragedy

D. Prose polemic

758. He married to the Anne Hathaway at the age of_____________in______________?
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A. 18, 1582

B. 16, 1580

C. 17, 1581

D. 15, 1579

759. Which of the following British monarchs was executed during the English Civil War?
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A. Charles II

B. Henry VIII

C. Charles I

D. Queen Anne

760. Who does Milton name as his heavenly muse ?
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A. Virgil

B. Urania

C. Titania

D. Michael