This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Authors > John Milton > John Milton – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books John Milton Quiz 1 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The end of the poem talks about how God, his ..... is keeping an eye on the speaker and what he is doing with his life and the gifts that God has given him. A) His great Task-Master. B) His Gift. C) His Savior. D) His spring. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His great Task-Master. 2. The structure of the poem is best described as a ..... A) Ode. B) Ballad. C) Sonnet. D) Villanelle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sonnet. 3. What type of sonnet is John Milton's works? A) Petrarchan. B) Spenserian. C) Elizabethan. D) Shakespearean. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Petrarchan. 4. When did John Milton publish Tenure of Kings and Magistrates? A) 1628. B) 1649. C) 1645. D) 1637. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1649. 5. The poet in the octave states that he is ..... years old and is frustrated with having? A) 34, PTSD. B) 67, too much stress. C) 23, accomplished little. D) 17, girls. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 23, accomplished little. 6. What are the two parts of a Petrarchan sonnet? A) Octave and sestet. B) Octave and sextet. C) Quartet and couplet. D) Quartet and quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Octave and sestet. 7. Milton's first marriage A) Was happy at first, then it became a disappointment. B) Proved a disappointment. C) Gave him great happiness. D) Did not see any children. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Proved a disappointment. 8. Which Poem caused Milton's stature as a poet to be recognized? A) Paradise Lost. B) Il Penseroso. C) Areopagitica. D) Lycidas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradise Lost. 9. In On His Blindness, what does Milton refer by his 'one talent'? A) Orating. B) Storytelling. C) Singing. D) Writing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Writing. 10. When and Where was John Milton Born. A) England February 17, 1689. B) Washington July 6, 1794. C) London December 9, 1608. D) Florida January 24, 1888. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) London December 9, 1608. 11. John Milton A) Didn't want to become a poet. B) Always wanted to become a politician. C) Always knew he was going to become a poet. D) Became a politician first, then a poet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Always knew he was going to become a poet. 12. Who is considered the hero in Paradise Lost for the Romantics? A) God. B) Satan. C) Adam. D) God's son. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Satan. 13. Making a reference to a parable from the Bible is an example of ..... A) Allusion. B) Paradox. C) Personification. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 14. Whom did John Milton marry at the age of 34? A) Agnes. B) Ann Powell. C) Lynda. D) Mary Powell. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mary Powell. 15. Which of the following works does NOT belong to Milton? A) Paradise Regained. B) Lycidas. C) Paradise. D) Eikonoklastes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paradise. 16. To what literary movement does Milton belong? A) Cavalier poets. B) Metaphysical poets. C) None of them. D) Puritan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Puritan. 17. John Milton was a ..... A) Historian. B) Poet and politician. C) Philosopher. D) Sociologist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poet and politician. 18. What was the cause of Milton's blindness? A) Glioma. B) Glaucoma. C) Glossodynia. D) Glucagonoma. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Glaucoma. 19. How many line does a sonnet have? A) 12. B) 13. C) 14. D) 15. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 14. 20. John Milton's Sonnet 7 begins with? A) God's plans for him. B) How soon hath Time. C) Great Task-Master. D) Trust in God. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How soon hath Time. Next →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesJohn Milton Quiz 2John Milton Quiz 3The Poetry Of John Milton Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books