Context

Question 1

Revelation 12:7

Answer 1

Angels fended off Satan in heaven.

Question 2

Protestant Reformation & Martin Luther

Answer 2

• Roman Catholic was the ‘Sola Fida’ (only faith)
• Church was corrupt… indulgences where people donated to buy time for purgatory
• Luther influenced Christianity by writing Bible in German. ( gave different interpretations).

Question 3

1637, death of mother

Answer 3

Led to him touring Europe and gaining influential ideas

Question 4

1649, Charles 1 executed

Answer 4

Milton got ideas about power and who really has it.

Question 5

1638, Lycidas

Answer 5

A poem similar to Paradise Lost with ideas like “free will”

Question 6

William Wordsworth and his view on Milton

Answer 6

sees him as a gentleman and very powerful with a pen.

compares Milton with Jesus when asking him to return and give manners.

Question 7

Addison

Answer 7

Milton does not finish his similes until it rises to a great idea.

Question 8

Stella P.Revard

Answer 8

Adam is a parody of a tragic hero.

not a war epic but a biblical epic

Question 9

Dryden

Answer 9

Milton surpassed Virgil and homer

Question 10

Quote from book 1 to foreshadow book 9 events

Answer 10

“of man’s first disobedience, and the fruit of the forbidden tree whose mortal taste bring death into the world”