Milton & Civil War

Question 1

meritocracy

Answer 1

government or the holding of power by people selected according to worth

Question 2

what figure did Milton characterise as a tyrant

Answer 2

charles I

Question 3

in which polemic pamphlet did Milton explore how the common man could overthrow a tyrant without resulting to violence

Answer 3

the tenure of kings and magistrates

Question 4

what unpopular machiavellian figure did Charles I lean on heavily in his early years of reign, leading to his later isolation from parliament?

Answer 4

George Viliers, Duke of Buckingham

Question 5

what religion was the Queen Henrietta Maria of France, leading to further unpopularity?

Answer 5

catholic

Question 6

what is the period of Personal Rule?

Answer 6

a time when Charles didn’t summon parliament (which he needed to raise money), using more and more methods such as unpopular taxes and levies to raise the money for himself

Question 7

what was william laud accused of by the puritans?

Answer 7

being blasphemous by trying to reintroduce idols and statues and turning back to catholic traditions

Question 8

who is a papist?

Answer 8

a roman catholic

Question 9

what was milton originally studying to be at uni?

Answer 9

vicar in the CofE

Question 10

what book did Charles and Laud try to introduce for scotland

Answer 10

laudian prayerbook

Question 11

who did charles have to execute after his military dispute and reformation of scotland failed

Answer 11

william laud and his chief military provider

Question 12

what tyrannical action did Charles attempt

Answer 12

arresting the 5 (5 MPs)

Question 13

what years was the civil war

Answer 13

1642-51

Question 14

what was the war like

Answer 14

brutal and bloody

Question 15

what did the civil war move from and to

Answer 15

feudal to artillery war

Question 16

what does satan introduce in paradise lost, linked to the shift in warfare

Answer 16

gunpowder

Question 17

connecting the character of satan and charles I

Answer 17

uses language to trick people
undeserving usurper

Question 18

what did milton believe was the cause of his blindness

Answer 18

he wrote so many pamphlets during the civil war

Question 19

why did milton believe the restoration of another monarch called charles married to a catholic woman happened

Answer 19

it was a second test of the people sent by god, in order for people to fail, so a second revolution could happen - like in the Bible, the angels and the coming of jesus