!) John Milton

Question 1

Liberty of conscience ‘above all other…

Answer 1

things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious’ (Aeropagitica - 1644)

Question 2

‘The gift of…

Answer 2

freedom to be his own chooser’ (Aeropagitica - 1644)

Question 3

‘who ever knew

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truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?’ (Aeropagitica - 1644)

Question 4

‘forth his reasons…

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as it were a battle ranged’ (Aeropagitica - 1644)

Question 5

‘to make the…

Answer 5

fittest to choose, and the chosen fittest to govern, will be to mend our corrupt and faulty education’ (The Ready and Easy Way - 1660)

Question 6

‘that which purifies…

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us is triall, and triall is by what is contrary’ (Aeropagitica - 1644)

Question 7

‘despair not of…

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[God’s] final pardon’ (Samson Antagonistes - 1671)

Question 8

‘their human…

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countenance…is changed/into some brutish form’ (Comus - 1634)

Question 9

‘manacle the native…

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liberty of mankind’ (Aeropagitica - 1644)

Question 10

Who, in the Ready and Easy Way, are dependent on custom to make their decisions?

Answer 10

‘sluggards’ and the ‘unmanly’ (The Ready and Easy Way - 1660)

Question 11

‘spiritual power…

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and civil… the bounds of either sword to thee we owe’ (To Sir Henry Vane - 1652)

Question 12

‘to bind our souls…

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with secular chains (To Cromwell - 1652)

Question 13

‘New-Presbyter is…

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but old priest writ large’ (On the New Forcers - c.1646)

Question 14

‘the power of Kings…

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and Magistrates is… committed to them in trust from the People’ (On the Tenure - 1649)

Question 15

‘the King and…

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magistrate holds his authority of the people’ (On the Tenure - 1649)

Question 16

‘knowing men will

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easily agree with me, that a free Commonwealth… is by far the best government’ (The Ready and Easy Way - 1660)

Question 17

Milton believed that free people ‘will elect…

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good and virtuous people’ (The Ready and Easy Way - 1660)

Question 18

‘ther may be…

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such a king, who may regard the common good before his own’ (The Ready and Easy Way - 1660)

Question 19

Who did Milton worry about in (The Tenure of Kings - 1649)?

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those who joined parliament as a ‘novelty’

Question 20

‘this yron yoke…

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of outward conformity hath left a slavish print upon our necks’ (Aeropagitica - 1644)

Question 21

‘Is it just or…

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reasonable, that most voices against the main end of government should enslave the less number that would be free?’ (The Ready and Easy Way - 1660)

Question 22

‘a less number…

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compel a greater to retain… their liberty’ (The Ready and Easy Way - 1660)

Question 23

Milton defended single rule by Cromwell who was ‘the greatest…

Answer 23

and most glorious of our citizens’ (Defensio Secunda - 1654)

Question 24

What did the Lady in Comus claim to retain?

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‘freedom of my mind’

Question 25

On whom does the Lady in Comus ultimately rely to free her from physical restraint?

Answer 25

Sabrina, the Water Nymph

Question 26

The Spirit claims of the characters that ‘Heaven… [that]…

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sent them here through hard assay’ (Comus - 1634)

Question 27

Satan admits to Christ ‘Thy actions…

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to thy words accord, thy words/To thy large heart give utterance due’ (Paradise Regained - 1671)

Question 28

‘Nothing of all…

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these evils hath befall’n me/But justly’ (Samson Agonistes - 1671)