“The mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies,” Alfred Tennyson said these words about whom?

A. Dryden
B. Pope
C. Ben Johnson
D. Milton

Answer

D. Milton

Who called Milton “The mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies”?

A. Robert Browning
B. Arthur Hallam
C. Alfred Tennyson
D. Emily, Lady Tennyson

Answer

C. Alfred Tennyson

Who said, “Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour!”?

A. Coleridge
B. Wordsworth
C. Keats
D. Blake

Answer

B. Wordsworth

Who said this about Milton? “Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart.”

A. Coleridge
B. Wordsworth
C. Keats
D. Blake

Answer

B. Wordsworth

Chaucer introduced a five-stress line—iambic pentameter—which was later used by William Shakespeare and________.

A. Samuel Johnson
B. John Milton
C. Alexander Pope
D. James Boswell

Answer

B. John Milton

Which author’s Areopagitica (1644) is a classic plea for freedom of the press?

A. Samuel Johnson
B. John Milton
C. Alexander Pope
D. James Boswell

Answer

B. John Milton

Which poet’s Comus 1634 is a masque?

A. John Milton
B. John Dryden
C. Alexander Pope
D. John Donne

Answer

A. John Milton

Which one of these works is the example of the “Closet drama”?

A. Samson Agonistes
B. Manfred
C. Prometheus Unbound
D. All of these

Answer

D. All of these

Milton’s which poem shows the influence of Christianity and the Renaissance?

A. Paradise Lost
B. When I Consider How My Light is Spent
C. Lycidas
D. L’Allegro

Answer

A. Paradise Lost