This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > John Milton > John Milton – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books John Milton Quiz 1 (49 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 Savior. C) His spring. D) His Gift. 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) Shakespearean. B) Elizabethan. C) Petrarchan. D) Spenserian. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Petrarchan. 4. When did John Milton publish Tenure of Kings and Magistrates? A) 1649. B) 1645. C) 1637. D) 1628. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1649. 5. The poet in the octave states that he is ..... years old and is frustrated with having? A) 67, too much stress. B) 23, accomplished little. C) 17, girls. D) 34, PTSD. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 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) Proved a disappointment. B) Gave him great happiness. C) Did not see any children. D) Was happy at first, then it became a disappointment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Proved a disappointment. 8. Which Poem caused Milton's stature as a poet to be recognized? A) Paradise Lost. B) Lycidas. C) Il Penseroso. D) Areopagitica. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradise Lost. 9. In On His Blindness, what does Milton refer by his 'one talent'? A) Writing. B) Orating. C) Storytelling. D) Singing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 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. Who is considered the hero in Paradise Lost for the Romantics? A) Adam. B) God. C) Satan. D) God's son. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Satan. 12. 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. 13. Whom did John Milton marry at the age of 34? A) Mary Powell. B) Agnes. C) Lynda. D) Ann Powell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mary Powell. 14. Which of the following works does NOT belong to Milton? A) Eikonoklastes. B) Paradise Regained. C) Paradise. D) Lycidas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paradise. 15. 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. 16. John Milton was a ..... A) Historian. B) Poet and politician. C) Philosopher. D) Sociologist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poet and politician. 17. What was the cause of Milton's blindness? A) Glossodynia. B) Glucagonoma. C) Glioma. D) Glaucoma. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Glaucoma. 18. How many line does a sonnet have? A) 15. B) 13. C) 14. D) 12. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 14. 19. John Milton's Sonnet 7 begins with? A) How soon hath Time. B) Great Task-Master. C) Trust in God. D) God's plans for him. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) How soon hath Time. 20. What was the name of the book you created? A) The hidden paradise. B) The lost island. C) Paradise lost. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paradise lost. 21. Who are the two most prominent figures in the English literature? A) William Blake and John Milton. B) Jane Austen and John Milton. C) J.K. Rowling and William Blake. D) William Shakespeare and John Milton. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Shakespeare and John Milton. 22. What was Milton's main health problem A) He became deaf. B) He lost his eyesight in one eye. C) He lost his eyesight in both eyes. D) He lost his right hand. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He lost his eyesight in both eyes. 23. He was educated at? A) St. Paul's School and Christ's College. B) Stanford University. C) Queen Mary School and University of London. D) London School of Economics and Political Science. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) St. Paul's School and Christ's College. 24. Which one of Milton's senses were lost during writing his works? A) Voice. B) Taste. C) Vision. D) Hearing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vision. 25. What king of verse did Milton use in Paradise Lost? A) Rhymed verse. B) Free verse. C) Blank verse. D) Octave. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blank verse. 26. The ff. ideas are true about On His Blindness EXCEPT ..... A) It is stated in a fictitious perspective. B) It is the poet's reflections on losing his sight. C) It is a devotional sonnet. D) It is written in an autobiographical manner. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is stated in a fictitious perspective. 27. In 1638 Milton set off on a tour of France and Italy, meeting another cultural giant whose struggle with blindness prefigured Milton's own. Who was it? A) Bach. B) Voltaire. C) Claydermann. D) Galileo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Galileo. 28. Where was John Milton born? Where was John Milton born? A) Bristol. B) London. C) Wales. D) Yorkshire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) London. 29. What is the purpose of the second part of a Petrarchan sonnet? A) To provide a statement. B) To offer another conflicting idea. C) To reveal an answer to the conflict. D) To provide a new set of challenge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To reveal an answer to the conflict. 30. What were John's parents name? A) Mary Sue & Mark Milton. B) Sarah & John Milton. C) Spongebob & Patrick. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sarah & John Milton. 31. After the Restoration of Charles II to the throne in 1660, Milton was arrested as a A) Fugitive. B) Cromwell. C) Minor. D) Defender of the Commonwealth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Defender of the Commonwealth. 32. After he lost.....he continued his labors with an assistant. A) Leg. B) The view. C) A hand. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The view. 33. What year was Paradise Lost published? A) 1667. B) 1762. C) 1982. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1667. 34. What were the names of Milton's children? A) Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn. B) Anne, Mary, John, Deborah, and Katherine. C) Malia Obama & Sasha Obama. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anne, Mary, John, Deborah, and Katherine. 35. The poem is written in the ..... and is highly .....? A) English language, Criticized. B) First Person, autobiographical. C) Back, Acclaimed. D) Poem, Highly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) First Person, autobiographical. 36. In 1642, Milton returned from a trip into the countryside with a 16-year-old bride named? A) Mary Powell. B) Elizabeth Minshull. C) Katherine Woodcock. D) Samantha Hillen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mary Powell. 37. In 1660, when the Monarchy was restored, A) Milton switched sides and became a supporter of the Monarchy. B) Milton was exiled. C) Milton was imprisoned and executed. D) Milton was imprisoned for a short time. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Milton was imprisoned for a short time. 38. In "On His Blindness, " Milton's central concern is for his ..... A) Sight. B) Remaining daylight. C) Reputation as a writer. D) Faith and relationship with God. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Faith and relationship with God. 39. When did John Milton die? A) 8 November 1674. B) 14 February 1669. C) 22 June 1675. D) 9 December 1670. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 8 November 1674. 40. Who did Milton have to write his works down when he became Blind? A) His daughters. B) His friends. C) His sons. D) His friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His daughters. 41. Which book was about the temptation of Christ? A) L'Allegro. B) Paradise Regained. C) Samson Agonistes. D) Paradise Lost. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paradise Regained. 42. What part of John Milton's sonnets represent the conflict he is suffering from? A) Quatrain. B) Couplet. C) Octave. D) Sestet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Octave. 43. During the English Civil War, Milton championed the cause of the? A) Puritans and Oliver Cromwell. B) Radical political topics. C) Government. D) Regicide. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Puritans and Oliver Cromwell. 44. Who were the main characters in Milton's poem? A) God, Adam, Eve, and Satan. B) William Blake and Percey Shelley. C) Rudolph. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) God, Adam, Eve, and Satan. 45. The speaker hopes that what he accomplishes will be ultimately? A) Reflected on people. B) Accomplishing. C) Pleasing to God. D) Bad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pleasing to God. 46. After getting married, getting divorced, reconciling, 3 children were born to him, the fourth died of his wife and the youngest of his 3 children too, Milton became minister of ..... A) Foreign languages. B) Church. C) I do not know. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreign languages. 47. When was John Milton born? A) 12 June 1628. B) 17 August 1612. C) 2 May 1614. D) 9 December 1608. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 9 December 1608. 48. At what age did John Milton created his masterpiece? A) Nearly 23. B) Before 44. C) Nearly 60. D) After 65. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nearly 60. 49. Why did you go through difficult times during your "educational" life? A) He didn't like his life. B) His wife left him. C) For considering his peers inferior to him. D) None of above. 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