1 Read the adapted the summary of “Paradise Lost” on the platform!!!

Seminar 11. Task on “Paradise Lost” by John Milton (All the tests are taken from the summary “Paradise Lost” on the platform)

Faculty:___ English

Group: ___224_

Full name: ____Xayitboyev Jamol

Instructions:

1) Read the adapted the summary of “Paradise Lost” on the platform!!!

2) Answer the questions accordingly: the answers should be taken from the summary mentioned above

PART II. Answer the questions

1. Identify the genre of “Paradise Lost”.

Answer: _Epic poetry__

2. How many stages of the setting of “Paradise Lost” do you know? Enumerate.

Answer: _Four main stage of action: Hell, Heaven, Paradise, before the fall ʼ, earth in its fallen state

3. Who after the fall of Adam and Eve narrates an extended vision of fallen human history and how it’s called in literature?

Answer: _the angel Micheal

4. Who instigates a rebellion against the Father that is joined by one-third of the angelic host?

Answer: ___Satan_ ___

5. Why does the plot of “Paradise lost” unfold in three phases?

Answer: This is a story of crime and punishment

6. Identify the three phases of the plot of “Paradise Lost”

Answer: _what led up to it

7. The English branch of the Reformation is known as Puritanism – What’s Puritanism?

Answer: _ it got its name cheifly from the desire of its adherents to purify the Church of England of its remaining vestiges of Catholicism.

8. All Renaissance writers assumed that there were three main topics about which to write: Enumerate them.

Answer: _God, people and nuture

9. The great chain of being was a metaphor that expressed the following beliefs about the universe. What are they?

Answer: _its unity, its orderliness, its hierarchy of value

10. What are Milton’s three major works?

Answer: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes

PART II.

11. True or False

According to Protestantism all people are born in a sinful state.

Answer: __True__

12. True or False

Milton is “a Puritan of Puritans.”

Answer: __True__

13. True or False

Paradise Lost is a partial repository of biblical truth and Christian doctrine.

Answer: __True__

14. True or False

Epics are short narrative poems

Answer: __False__

15. True or False

The main action in Book 11 is Satan and his fallen legion rousing themselves from the burning lake after having fallen from Heaven for nine days and nights after their unsuccessful rebellion against God.

Answer: __False__

16. True or False

This central action begins with an exchange of speeches between Satan (the first to revive after the physical fall into Hell) and Beelzebub.

Answer: __True__

17. True or False

The fallen angels respond by hurling defiance against God and by building the angelic city of Pandemonium.

Answer: __False__

18. True or False

An epic poet begins by announcing his epic theme or subject; Milton declares that he will tell the story of the fall of the human race through disobedience

Answer: __True__

19. True or False

Traditional epic is a success story; So is Milton’s epic.

Answer: _False___

20. True or False

The key to understanding Milton’s strategy is the framework known as hidden and apparent plots

Answer: __True__

PART III. Matching -

21. Pandemonium means …. .

Answer: ____ “all demon assembly”__

22. Pandemonium is the antithesis of …

Answer: ____ both the city of Heaven and the garden of Eden

23. Milton had to find a place for the “martial theme” …

Answer: ____ because that was the established subject for an epic

24. Mammon believes that …

dwelling place for eternity

Answer: _____… the resources of Hell can be turned into a magnificent ___

25. Moloch proposes …

Answer: ____ .a military attack on Heaven

… a military attack on Heaven

… the resources of Hell can be turned into a magnificent dwelling place for eternity

… because that was the established subject for an epic

… both the city of Heaven and the garden of Eden

… “all demon assembly”