ENGL 4320 Milton Seminar First Exam Study Guide PDF

ENGL 4320: Milton Seminar McDowell, Fall 2024 First Exam Study Guide Instructions: This exam gives you the opportunity to reveal and apply your knowledge of Milton’s life and the writings we have read and discussed so far this term. It is composed of true/false,...

ENGL 4320: Milton Seminar McDowell, Fall 2024 First Exam Study Guide Instructions: This exam gives you the opportunity to reveal and apply your knowledge of Milton’s life and the writings we have read and discussed so far this term. It is composed of true/false, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, short answer, and passage identification questions. Answer in the spaces provided. In the case of true/false and multiple choice questions, circle the correct answers. You will have the entire class time in which to take this exam. Each question is worth one point. Sample Questions 1. In which of the following sonnets does Milton conclude that some people “also God” who “only stand and wait”? A) Sonnet 7: “How soon hath time” B) Sonnet 9: “Lady that in the prime” C) 18: “On the Late Massacre in Piemont” D) 19: “When I consider how my light is spent” E) 23: “Methought I saw my late espoused saint.” 2. True or false: Milton was a Catholic who renounced his faith. A) True B) False 3. Fill-in-the-Blank: The poem in which Milton mourns the loss of Edward King is ____________________. See how from far upon the eastern road 4. Which work do these lines come from? The star-led wizards haste with odours sweet: O run, prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet; Have thou the honour first thy Lord to greet, And join thy voice unto the angel quire, From out his secret altar touch’d with hallow’d fire. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughter’d saints, whose bones 5. Which work do these lines come from? Lie scatter’d on the Alpine mountains cold, Ev’n them who kept they truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp’d stocks and stones;... 6. Who is being described?