Say whether the following sentences are true or false. Prove it.
1. By the age of twelve John Milton had already formed the habit of sleeping until midday.
2. In Horton he gave himself up to sports and music.
3. Having completed his education, he visited China and Japan which gave him an opportunity to satisfy his thirst for love and philosophy.
4. He returned in England just when the struggle between the king and the Puritans began.
5. The second period in his literary work were the years when he wrote militant revolutionary pamphlets.
6. Milton made Europe understand that the Puritan revolution was only a great rebellion, completely sharing Royalists opinion.
7. After the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 all Milton's famous pamphlets were taken to the museum to keep them safe for the history.
8. During Milton's years of retirement he created works that made him one of the greatest poets of England.
9. Milton didn't like ancient poetry very much because of free thoughts there expressed and because of its great epic forms.
10. Milton showed the idea of the unbroken revolutionary spirit in his epics "Paradise lost" and "Samson".
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