Q: Milton wrote Areopagitica:
a) Defence of Roman Catholicism
b) To defend people's freedom of speech
c) On dramatic art developed through dialogues
d) Conquest of Granada
Correct answer: b) To defend people's freedom of speech
Explanation of English Literature MCQs Test
Areopagitica by John Milton
Areopagitica is a book written by English Poet John Milton in 1644. He wrote it to protest against censorship. A speech of Mr John Milton for the liberty of unlicensed printing to the parliament of England is a 1644 prose polemic by the English Poet, scholar and polemical author John Milton opposing licensing and censorship. "Areopagitica" is among history's most influential and impassioned philosophical defences of the principle of a right to freedom of speech and expression.
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