Let Us Test Your Understanding 2

It is about Adam and Eve—how they came to be created and how they came to lose their place in the Garden of Eden, also called Paradise.

• Paradise Lost

• The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

• Adam and Eve

• The Creation

In the story of Paradise Lost, Michael shows Adam the future.

• False

• True

• Partially True

• Partially False

He is an archangel, one of the fiercest fighters in the battle between the rebellious angels and those loyal to God in the story of Paradise Lost.

• Belial

• Mulciber

• Moloch

• Michael

Milton reorganized the poem into _____ books, by dividing two of the longer books into _____.

• eleven - three

• twelve - five

• twelve - four

• eleven - five

He was an English poet, polemicist, and man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell.

• Dante Alighieri

• John Milton

• Christopher Marlowe

• John Marlowe

It is Marlowe’s last play, a tragic study of a king’s weakness and misery.

• Edward II

• King Philip VII

• The Jew of Malta

• Dr. Faustus

This is the story of Christopher Marlowe about a scholar who longs for infinite knowledge, and law, the four sciences of the time, to study of magic, much as a child might turn from jewels to tinsel and colored paper. It is lacking in dramatic construction, but has an unusual number of passages of rare poetic beauty

• Tamburlaine

• The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

• The Jew of Malta

• Dr. Faustus

It is a pastoral lyric of Marlowe, a poetic form that is used to create an idealized vision of rustic life within the context of personal emotion. It was published in 1599

• Divine Comedy

• Paradise Lost

• The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

• Utopia

He is one of the most suggestive figures of the English Renaissance, and the greatest of Shakespeare’s predecessors.

• Dante Alighieri

• John Milton

• Christopher Marlowe

• Edward III

What do you think is the significant of Milton and Marlowe's work in your life? Explain your answer in at least 5 sentences.