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Paradise Lost escape rooms

6 self-checking escape rooms on Paradise Lost by John Milton, one for each section. Every answer comes from the text, so each room checks reading as well as recall, and they work with any edition. For grades 9–12, classical homeschoolers and literature classes.

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Room by room

• Books 1–2: The Fallen Host. Satan and Beelzebub waking in hell, the roll call of the fallen angels, the building of Pandemonium, the great council and its speeches, Satan's offer to go alone, his meeting with Sin and Death at the gates, and his journey through Chaos.
• Books 3–4: The Garden Wall. The poet's hymn to light, the Father and the Son in heaven, the Paradise of Fools, Satan's disguise and Uriel, Satan's speech on Niphates, his leap into Paradise, Adam and Eve and Eve's first memory, the angel guards, Satan found at Eve's ear, and his stand-off with Gabriel.
• Books 5–6: War in Heaven. Eve's troubled dream, the morning hymn, Raphael's visit and meal in Eden, his story of the Son raised as head of the angels, Satan's revolt and Abdiel's stand, the first two days of battle, the rebels' new weapon, the hills hurled in return, and how the war ends.
• Books 7–8: Six Days of Making. The poet's call to Urania, the Son riding out to create, the six days of making and the seventh day of rest, Adam's questions about the heavens and Raphael's answer, Adam's first memories, his naming of the creatures and his wish for a companion, the making of Eve, and Raphael's parting warning.
• Books 9–10: The Serpent Speaks. Satan's return, Eve's wish to work apart, the serpent's flattery, the fall of Eve and then of Adam, their shame and quarrel, the Son's judgement, the bridge of Sin and Death, Satan's return to hell, the changes to the world, and Adam and Eve's reconciliation.
• Books 11–12: The World Before Them. The prayers of Adam and Eve, Michael's coming, Eve's grief at leaving her flowers, the visions of the future shown to Adam from the hill, the Flood and the rainbow, Michael's story of Babel, Abraham, Moses and the promised Saviour, Eve's dream, and the last walk out of Eden.