Paradise lost by john milton tells how adam and eve were tempted by satan to disobey god. what command of god did adam and eve disobey?

A) to avoid eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge  

Explanation:

The poem recounts the feathers of the fallen angels after the rebellion in heaven, the ruse of Satan to make Adam and Eve eat the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, and the subsequent Fall of man. In the poem, God sends an angel to notify Adam and Eve that they should not eat of the forbidden fruit; however, despite the warning, Eve is seduced by Satan, then in the body of a serpent, and eats the forbidden fruit, making him eat Adam too. As a result of disobedience, both are expelled from the Garden of Eden and become aware, as with all their offspring, of sin and death.

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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