Facts Who's the Speaker Literary Devices Themes
100
What is Tigris?
The river by which Eden is located
100
Who is Adam?
"For solitude sometimes is the best society" (IX, 249)
100
What is an epic simile?
"As one who long in populous city pent
where houses thick and sewers annoy the air
forth issuing on a summer's morn to breather
among the pleasant villagers and farms" (IX, 445-8)
100
What is vanity and lust?
Name the two deadly sins written in this book
200
What is Anarctic, the Ocean at Darien, Ganges, Inus, over Pontus, the pool Maeotis?
Name at least one place Satan traveled to find Paradise
200
Who is Satan?
"To satisfy the sharp desire I had of tasting those fair apples" (584-6)
200
What is an allusion?
"than the wrath
of stern Achilles on his foe pursued
thrice fugitive about troy wall or rage" (IX, 15-17)
200
The ease of Satan persuading Eve
What actions further agree females are the weaker sex?
300
What is Serpent?
The animal that Satan becomes
300
Who is Eve?
"Our reason is our law" (653-4)
300
What is irony?
"But that thou my shouldst my firmness therefore doubt
to God or three because we have a foe
may tempt it I expected not to hear" (IX, 279-81)
300
What is the importance of obedience to the higher power?
The theme associated with the punishment for eating the apple from the Forbidden Tree






Paradise Lost Book Nine

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