Paradise Lost is based on the book of ___________ from the Bible.

"Thou shalt not eat of it."

Adam and Even are not to eat the fruit of ____________.

How many rivers are in the Garden of Eden?

"...till one greater Man / Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat"

Who is the one greater Man?

Paradise Lost is written in ___________.

"That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed"

This is ___________, and the Seed are __________.

"Who durst defie th' Omnipotent to Arms"

The Omnipotent is ________.

"A dismal Situation waste and wilde, / A Dungeon horrible, on all sides round / As one great Furnace flam'd..."

This is description of _____________.

"And this Empyreal substance cannot fail"

Satan is saying that they are still _____________.

Satan means ________________.

In a line of iambic pentameter verse, there are ______ syllables.

"In medias res" means ______________.

"And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her Seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise His heel" (Genesis 3.15).

"Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee" (Genesis 3.16).

"...as when the force / Of subterranean wind transports a hill / Torn from Pelorus, or the shattered side / Of thundering Aetna, whose combustible / And fueled entrails thence conceiving fire, / Sublimed with mineral fury, aid the winds, / And leave a singed bottom all involved / With stench and smoke..."

Cherubim and seraphim are types of ___________.

"And high permission of all-ruling Heaven / Left him [Satan] at large to his own dark designs. / That with reiterated crimes he might / Heap on himself damnation..."

These lines touch on the concept of ________________.

An apostate is a person who has ___________ God.

Some characteristics of the epic hero could include:

The setting in an epic poem is usually __________.

Seraphim and cherubim refer to classifications or types of ______________.

Several of the archangels are....

Milton's explanation of the presence of pagan gods on Earth such as Baalim, Moloch, Ashtaroth, etc. is that they are __________________.

"Javan's issue"

These are the _______________.

In Book 2 of Paradise Lost, Satan's daughter and son are introduced. They are ______ and _________.

Then shining heavenly fair, a goddess armed,

Out of thy head I sprung. Amazement seized

All the host of Heaven; back they recoiled afraid

At first, and called me Sin...

This is an example of a(n) __________ .

When Satan escapes Hell, he flies into the void known as ________.

...So will fall

He and his faithless progeny: Whose fault?

Whose but his own? ingrate, he had of me

All he could have; I made him just and right,

Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

This quote indicates that Milton is suggesting the concept of _____________.

Behold me then: me for him, life for life

I offer: on me let thine anger fall;

Account me Man; I for his sake will leave

Thy bosom, and this glory next to thee

Freely put off, and for him lastly die

Well pleased; on me let Death wreak all his rage.

The speaker here is ____________.

But I shall rise victorious, and subdue

My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil.

Death his death's wound shall then receive, and stoop Inglorious, of his mortal sting disarmed

This passage alludes to the ___________________.

Not Spirits, yet to heavenly Spirits bright

Little inferior; whom my thoughts pursue

With wonder, and could love, so lively shines

In them divine resemblance, and such grace

The hand that formed them on their shape hath poured.

This quote frames Satan as a _____________ character.

In Book 5 of Paradise Lost, the angel whom God sent to Eden to talk to Adam is_____________.

Satan takes the form of a ___________ as he whispers disturbing dreams into Eve's ear.

____________ is the literary device by which the beginning of a story, or backstory, is told in the middle of a work.

“Meanwhile enjoy/ Your fill what happiness this happy state / Can comprehend, incapable of more.”

Raphael's intended message to Adam and Eve in this quote is that they should ____________________.

"My only Son, and on this holy hill

Him have anointed, whom ye now behold

At my right hand; your head I him appoint”

God has __________________.

"yet fraught / With envy against the Son of God, that day / Honored by his great Father, and proclaimed / Messiah King anointed, could not bear / Through pride that sight, and thought himself impaired..."

Paradise Lost may be read as a historical analogy to ___________________.

What fraction of Heaven's angelic host drew themselves unto the faction of Satan?

“Then Satan first knew pain,

And writhed him to and fro convolved; so sore

The griding sword with discontinuous wound

Passed through him”

Which archangel inflicted such a wound as to harm Satan and have him feel pain?

“Flashing thick flames, wheel within wheel undrawn,

Itself instinct with Spirit, but convoyed

By four Cherubic shapes; four faces each

Had wondrous; as with stars, their bodies all

And wings were set with eyes; with eyes the wheels

Of beryl, and careering fires between"

The description of the chariot of God is based on the Book of __________.

Book 7 of Paradise Lost largely recounts ______________.

"Dust of the ground"

This is ___________.

As new waked from soundest sleep,

Soft on the flowery herb I found me laid,

In balmy sweat; which with his beams the sun

Soon dried, and on the reeking moisture fed.

This is ____________.

"From thence a rib, with cordial spirits warm"

Who or what is being created?

"Sated at length, ere long I might perceive / Strange alteration in me, to degree / Of reason in my inward powers; and speech / Wanted not long; though to this shape retained"

This quote is....

"Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate.

Earth felt the wound; and nature from her seat,

Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe,

That all was lost."

To rout and expel the fallen angels from Heaven, the Son in his battle fury only expended ______ of his potential strength.

If two of the rivers of Paradise are the Tigris and the Euphrates, this places the Garden in what is now _________.

"Our state cannot be severed; we are one,

One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself."

The reason that Adam eats the fruit when it is presented to him by Eve is that....

After Adam and Eve both eat the fruit, they are described as being with "carnal desire inflaming." This means that...

"Herculean Samson, from the harlot-lap

Of Philistine Delilah, and waked

Shorn of his strength..."

"Would thou hadst hearkened to my words, and staid

With me, as I besought thee, when that strange

Desire of wandering, this unhappy morn,

I know not whence possessed thee; we had then

Remained still happy; not, as now, despoiled

Of all our good; shamed, naked, miserable."

"Man's friend, his Mediator, his designed

Both ransom and Redeemer voluntary"

This excerpt from Book 9 refers to __________.

"I heard thee in the garden, and of thy voice

Afraid, being naked, hid myself."

"This Woman, whom thou madest to be my help,

And gavest me as thy perfect gift, so good,

So fit, so acceptable, so divine..."

These lines after their fall (having eaten of the fruit) suggest that Adam...

"Upon thy belly groveling thou shalt go,

And dust shalt eat all the days of thy life"

"Her seed shall bruise thy head, thou bruise his heel."

This means that:

At the very moment of Satan's victory speech in Hell, he hears __________________.

"Some say, he bid his angels turn askance

The poles of earth, twice ten degrees and more,

From the sun's axle; they with labor pushed

Oblique the centric globe"

The archangel who is to drive Adam and Eve from the Garden is _____________.

In an epic, the vision of the future is generally shown to the ______________.

In Paradise Lost, since Satan begins a course of action due to pride, events do not go as he planned, and he suffers irreparably as a result, he might be read as a __________.

By the definition of an epic hero, the most likely candidate for this designation in Paradise Lost is ____________.

If we read Paradise Lost as an historical analogy to the English Civil War, the monarch against whom a faction rebels would be ___________.

If we read Paradise Lost as an historical analogy to the English Civil War, the character of Satan would be comparable to ______________.

The two factions in the English Civil War were the _________ and the ___________.

"By four Cherubic shapes; four faces each

Had wondrous; as with stars, their bodies all

And wings were set with eyes; with eyes the wheels

Of beryl, and careering fires between"

In this description of God's chariot, what are the four faces per the book of Ezekiel?

"On Europe thence, and where Rome was to sway

The world: in spirit perhaps he also saw

Rich Mexico, the seat of Montezuma,

And Cusco in Peru, the richer seat

Of Atabalipa; and yet unspoiled

Guiana, whose great city Geryon's sons

Call El Dorado."

In this quote, this is most likely a part of ______________.

"in thy blood will reign

A melancholy damp of cold and dry

To weigh thy spirits down,"

Michael says that this is what happens in one's _________.

At the end of Paradise Lost, Adam and Eve _____________ the Garden of Eden.

Cherubim with flaming swords guard Eden in order to prevent ___________.

Although Adam and Eve are sad to leave the Garden, "Some natural tears they dropt, but wiped them soon," they realize that there is hope for them as progenitors of the race of man as evidenced by the lines, to wit:

Which character could never be the hero of Paradise Lost?

"Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate.

Earth felt the wound; and nature from her seat,

Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe,

That all was lost."

In the quote, the Earth reacts _________ to the eating of the fruit.

How many books are there in Paradise Lost?

Vanquished means _____________.

Satan, Sin, and Death might be called the _______ trinity.