Divine Comedy-I: Inferno Quizzes

Divine Comedy-I: Inferno Quiz 1

By Eleanor Hubbard · Last reviewed July 04, 2000

1 Virgil appears to lead Dante back to the path of righteousness because

n/a

he is a fellow-poet.

God told him to do so.

Beatrice asked him to do so.
2 Hell is made up of:

five circles.

nine circles.

n/a

seven circles.
3 As Dante descends into Hell, the sins that he comes across become

n/a

different, but of the same degree in the eyes of God.

more serious.

less serious.
4 The souls who are stung by wasps outside of Hell are

non-Christians, who were not admitted into the places of reward and of punishment of Christianity.

the neutral souls.

the fallen angels.

n/a
5 The first infernal river is the

Cocytus.

n/a

Styx.

Acheron.
6 In Dante's system, murder is

less serious than fraud and more serious than heresy.

less serious than flattery and more serious than gluttony.

n/a

less serious than lust and more serious than fraud.
7 Minos is

n/a

a demon who guards the barrators and keeps them from getting out of the boiling pitch.

half-bull and half-man, the product of a bestial love between Pasiphae and a bull.

a demon who judges the gravity of the souls' sins.
8 Dante's attitude towards the sodomites is

sympathetic, since he too had a homosexual relationship with Virgil.

n/a

disdainful, since he considers their sin to be unforgivable.

respectful, since he had admired them during their lifetimes.
9 Dante was

a Ghibelline.

a Black Guelf

n/a

a White Guelf
10 This meant that he favored

the Holy Roman Emperor, to stop factionalist politics in Italy.

a republican form of government, like that later adopted by Florence.

n/a

the Pope, to bring renewed Christian faith to Italy.
11 Dante's attitude towards Florence is

n/a

loving but bitter.

vengeful and full of hatred.

mildly patriotic, but he was more interested in uniting all of Italy under the Emperor.
12 Francesca da Rimini and her husband's brother fell in love while

reading a chivalric romance together.

he was recovering from a wound from the Guelf-Ghibelline wars.

n/a

going hunting with trained falcons.
13 The river that does not appear in the Inferno is

n/a

Phlegethon.

Cocytus.

Lethe.
14 Dante's earth is

square.

n/a

disc-shaped.

round.
15 The sinners who are covered in flame are

fraudulent counselors.

traitors against their kin.

n/a

the lustful.
16 Which kinds of sins are considered least serious by Dante?

n/a

those resulting from incontinence.

those having to do with violence.

those having to do with money.
17 Hell is

incorporeal: it exists only in the imaginations of the sinners

shaped like a disc.

shaped like a cone.

n/a
18 Dante thought Pope Boniface VIII would be damned for

sodomy.

simony.

n/a

treachery.
19 The Inferno was written during Dante's

n/a

exile from Florence.

travels in France.

imprisonment in Rome.
20 Dante wrote in

n/a

Latin.

Tuscan.

literary Italian.
21 Farinata is

a heretic.

a barrator.

n/a

a glutton.
22 The time Dante spends in Hell corresponds to

All Saints Day.

the days before Easter.

n/a

the days before Christmas.
23 The forest of twisted trees is in the

n/a

second circle.

fifth circle.

seventh circle.
24 Dante shows himself to be

often frightened and often full of pity, but with occasional bouts of unbending hatred.

occasionally frightened, but strong in his faith: he believes that Jesus loves him and won't abandon him.

heroic and unflinching in the sight of horror: the hero of his own poem, he was able to disguise the faults in his character.

n/a
25 Usurers are damned for

violence.

lust.

fraud.

greed.

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