Multiple choice

Who is the author of ‘Paradise Lost’?

  1. William Shakespeare

  2. Jonathan Swift

  3. Oscar Wilde

  4. John Milton

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Explanation

John Milton wrote the epic poem 'Paradise Lost' in 1667, which chronicles the Biblical story of the Fall of Man - Satan's temptation of Adam and Eve and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton was a 17th-century English poet and civil servant who wrote the work in blank verse. William Shakespeare wrote plays and sonnets, Jonathan Swift wrote satires like Gulliver's Travels, and Oscar Wilde wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray.

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