Q 01/05

Milton's epic Paradise Lost tells the story of what?

A) The siege and fall of Troy

B) The fall of Adam and Eve

C) The life and death of Christ

D) Noah and the great Flood

Answer · why

B) The fall of Adam and Eve

It also follows the rebel angels' war in Heaven and the tempter's journey through Chaos to the new-made Earth.

Q 02/05

Paradise Lost is written in which metrical form?

A) Heroic couplets

B) Blank verse

C) Terza rima

D) Spenserian stanzas

Answer · why

B) Blank verse

Milton was the first modern writer to use unrhymed verse outside the theatre and translation, and later added a note explaining 'why the poem rhymes n...

Q 03/05

Milton was born in December 1608 in which part of London, also home to the Mermaid Tavern?

A) Fleet Street

B) Bread Street

C) Cheapside Row

D) Milk Street

Answer · why

B) Bread Street

His father, also John Milton, was a composer whose day job paid for the family's comfortable Cheapside home.

Q 04/05

Milton's father made his living in which profession?

A) Goldsmith

B) Scrivener

C) Vintner

D) Physician

Answer · why

B) Scrivener

He was also a composer, and the family home stood in Cheapside.

Q 05/05

Where in London was the young Milton educated before Cambridge, beginning Latin and Greek?

A) Westminster School

B) St Paul's School

C) Merchant Taylors' School

D) Charterhouse

Answer · why

B) St Paul's School

He met his lifelong friend Charles Diodati there.