Divine Comedy-I: Inferno Quizzes

Divine Comedy-I: Inferno Quiz 1

1 Virgil appears to lead Dante back to the path of righteousness because
Beatrice asked him to do so.

God told him to do so.

n/a

he is a fellow-poet.
2 Hell is made up of:
n/a

five circles.

nine circles.

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

more serious.

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

n/a
4 The souls who are stung by wasps outside of Hell are
the fallen angels.

the neutral souls.

n/a

non-Christians, who were not admitted into the places of reward and of punishment of Christianity.
5 The first infernal river is the
Cocytus.

Styx.

Acheron.

n/a
6 In Dante's system, murder is
n/a

less serious than lust and more serious than fraud.

less serious than flattery and more serious than gluttony.

less serious than fraud and more serious than heresy.
7 Minos is
n/a

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

a demon who judges the gravity of the souls' sins.

half-bull and half-man, the product of a bestial love between Pasiphae and a bull.
8 Dante's attitude towards the sodomites is
sympathetic, since he too had a homosexual relationship with Virgil.

n/a

respectful, since he had admired them during their lifetimes.

disdainful, since he considers their sin to be unforgivable.
9 Dante was
a Ghibelline.

a Black Guelf

a White Guelf

n/a
10 This meant that he favored
a republican form of government, like that later adopted by Florence.

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

the Pope, to bring renewed Christian faith to Italy.

n/a
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.

going hunting with trained falcons.

n/a

he was recovering from a wound from the Guelf-Ghibelline wars.
13 The river that does not appear in the Inferno is
n/a

Lethe.

Cocytus.

Phlegethon.
14 Dante's earth is
n/a

round.

square.

disc-shaped.
15 The sinners who are covered in flame are
the lustful.

n/a

traitors against their kin.

fraudulent counselors.
16 Which kinds of sins are considered least serious by Dante?
those having to do with money.

those having to do with violence.

those resulting from incontinence.

n/a
17 Hell is
incorporeal: it exists only in the imaginations of the sinners

n/a

shaped like a cone.

shaped like a disc.
18 Dante thought Pope Boniface VIII would be damned for
simony.

treachery.

n/a

sodomy.
19 The Inferno was written during Dante's
travels in France.

imprisonment in Rome.

exile from Florence.

n/a
20 Dante wrote in
n/a

Latin.

literary Italian.

Tuscan.
21 Farinata is
n/a

a barrator.

a heretic.

a glutton.
22 The time Dante spends in Hell corresponds to
the days before Easter.

n/a

the days before Christmas.

All Saints Day.
23 The forest of twisted trees is in the
n/a

second circle.

seventh circle.

fifth 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
greed.

lust.

fraud.

violence.

Dente's attitude to Florence is rather disdainful. He thinks Florence is a city of sinners though he has admired them for a lifetime.

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What purposes do the references to Minos and the lustful fugues from mythology serve?

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