Key Quotations - Narrator

Question 1

Narrator judges Adam and Eve

Answer 1

‘They deserved to fall’

Question 2

Narrator describing Satan

Answer 2

‘Prince of darkness’

Question 3

Narrator on Adam’s intelligence

Answer 3

‘His more attentive mind’

Question 4

Narrator describing how the angels are feeling

Answer 4

‘Displeas’d’ , ‘dim sadness’

Question 5

God’s throne

Answer 5

‘Throne Supream’

Question 6

God is transcendent

Answer 6

‘From his secret cloud, amidst in thunder’

Question 7

God as the ruler of heaven

Answer 7

‘From his radiant seat he rose’

Question 8

Sin is Satan’s daughter

Answer 8

‘His fair enchanting child’

Question 9

Satan blamed for Eve’s fall, but Eve caused Adam’s

Answer 9

‘The Serpent, had perverted Eve, her husband shee’

Question 10

Satan’s demons become serpents

Answer 10

‘Hiss for hiss returned with forked tongue to forked tongue’

Question 11

How the demon serpents moved

Answer 11

‘They rolled in heaps’

Question 12

The serpents don’t eat what they expected

Answer 12

‘instead of fruit chewed bitter ashes

Question 13

How easy it is to sin

Answer 13

‘Smooth, easie, inoffensive down to hell’

Question 14

Adam and Eve before God

Answer 14

‘fell Before him reverent’

Question 15

Jesus pities Adam and Eve, giving them clothes

Answer 15

‘Pittying how they stood before him naked to the attire’

Question 16

Jesus’ holy garments

Answer 16

‘His robe of righteousness’

Question 17

Adam is infected by evil

Answer 17

‘His thoughts, his looks, words, actions all infect’

Question 18

Eve was flawless to Adam

Answer 18

‘Thy perfect gift’

Question 19

Satan crashed to Earth

Answer 19

‘Saw Satan fall like lightning’

Question 20

Chaos is a slimy, damp, deep sea

Answer 20

‘Solid or slimie, as in raging sea’

Question 21

Oxymoron of death

Answer 21

‘living carcasses’

Question 22

Hell is underground

Answer 22

‘Deep to the roots of hell’

Question 23

Reference to Eve eating in book IX

Answer 23

‘greedily they pluck’d’

Question 24

Reference to Adam’s uxoriousness

Answer 24

‘Fondly thinking to allay their appetite’

Question 25

Hell is angry but open

Answer 25

‘stood open wide, belching outrageous flame’

Question 26

Block off hell

Answer 26

‘Obstruct the mouth of hell forever, and seal up his ravenous jaws’

Question 27

Future humans born sinners

Answer 27

‘born to certain woe, devoured by death at last’