All Free English Literature MCQs with Answers

• A. lust
• B. love for Eve
• C. pride
• D. money

Explanation: Adam knowingly disobeys because he cannot accept life without Eve, so his fall is driven by excessive love for her.

• A. Catapults
• B. Artillery
• C. Illusions
• D. The Holy Sepulcher

Explanation: Satan's forces introduce artillery into the heavenly battle, surprising the angels because this weapon is a new and unexpected form of…

• A. incest
• B. lust
• C. greed
• D. pride

Explanation: Satan's fall begins with pride, especially his refusal to accept God's supremacy and his desire to rival or surpass Him.

• A. Adam
• B. Michael
• C. Raphael
• D. Lucifer

Explanation: Raphael is portrayed as the affable, sociable archangel who visits Adam and Eve and speaks with them at length.

• A. a feminist
• B. uncomfortable with Adam
• C. detailed oriented
• D. a docile, vain creature

Explanation: Before the Fall, Eve is presented as obedient and somewhat vain, especially in her attraction to her own reflection and appearance.

• A. "stepping stones of clouds
• B. Golden rope
• C. Golden chain
• D. Ladder

Explanation: Milton uses the image of a golden chain linking heaven and earth, echoing the classical image of the chain of being.

• A. Michael and Gabriel
• B. Michael and Raphael
• C. Raphael and Gabriel
• D. Michael and Lucifer

Explanation: Michael and Gabriel are the chief military figures among God's loyal angels in the poem.

• A. One day
• B. Three days
• C. Seven days
• D. One hour

Explanation: The war in Heaven lasts three days before Satan and his rebel angels are defeated and expelled.

• A. Michael
• B. Abdiel
• C. Rafael
• D. Gabriel

Explanation: Michael is commanded to expel Adam and Eve and then shows Adam the future history of humanity, including the murder of Abel and Christ's…

• A. Beezlebub
• B. Michael
• C. Lucifer
• D. Belial

Explanation: Lucifer was Satan's name before his rebellion and fall from Heaven. Beelzebub and Belial are associated with the fallen angels but are not…

• A. 1660
• B. 1667
• C. 1658
• D. 1654

Explanation: Paradise Lost was first published in 1667 in ten books; Milton later revised it into twelve books for the 1674 edition.

• A. The fall of Lucifer
• B. The fall of man
• C. Adam and Eve
• D. The genesis

Explanation: The poem's central subject is the Fall of Man, as stated in its opening invocation: Milton seeks to justify God's ways through Adam and…

• A. Free verse
• B. Vers libre
• C. Regular meter
• D. blank verse

Explanation: Milton wrote Paradise Lost in blank verse, meaning unrhymed iambic pentameter.

• A. 1673
• B. 1676
• C. 1656
• D. 1667

Explanation: The first edition of Milton’s Paradise Lost appeared in 1667 in ten books.

• A. To justify the fall of Lucifer
• B. To justify the loss of paradise
• C. To justify the fall of man
• D. To justify the ways of God to men

Explanation: Milton states his aim in the opening of Paradise Lost: to justify the ways of God to human beings.

• A. John the Apostle
• B. John the Baptist
• C. Michael the Archangel
• D. Joseph, Jesus's stepfather

Explanation: The “great Prophet” who announces Christ and baptizes in the consecrated stream is John the Baptist.

• A. braille
• B. dictation
• C. a code of his own devising
• D. an Abacus

Explanation: After becoming blind, Milton composed by dictating lines to assistants, family members, or visitors who wrote them down.

• A. Satan lays dazed on the burning lake.
• B. Satan assembles his fallen legions.
• C. Adam and Eve fall from the state of Paradise.
• D. A and B

Explanation: Book I opens with Satan lying stunned on the burning lake and later shows him summoning and organizing the fallen angels.

• A. Gunpowder
• B. Adamantine armor
• C. The Chariot of Paternal Deity
• D. The Thunderbolt

Explanation: In Book VI, Satan’s forces use gunpowder and cannon-like weapons against the heavenly army.

• A. One
• B. Two
• C. Three
• D. Four

Explanation: The Gospel accounts present three temptations of Jesus by Satan: turning stones into bread, testing God's protection, and accepting…