Divine Comedy-I: Inferno Quizzes

Divine Comedy-I: Inferno Quiz 1

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

he is a fellow-poet.

Beatrice asked him to do so.

God told him to do so.
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
more serious.

n/a

less serious.

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

n/a

the fallen angels.
5 The first infernal river is the
n/a

Styx.

Cocytus.

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

less serious than flattery and more serious than gluttony.

less serious than fraud and more serious than heresy.

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

n/a
8 Dante's attitude towards the sodomites is
respectful, since he had admired them during their lifetimes.

n/a

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

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

a Black Guelf

a Ghibelline.

a White Guelf
10 This meant that he favored
n/a

the Pope, to bring renewed Christian faith to Italy.

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

a republican form of government, like that later adopted by Florence.
11 Dante's attitude towards Florence is
loving but bitter.

vengeful and full of hatred.

n/a

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

n/a

going hunting with trained falcons.

reading a chivalric romance together.
13 The river that does not appear in the Inferno is
n/a

Cocytus.

Lethe.

Phlegethon.
14 Dante's earth is
round.

square.

n/a

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

n/a

fraudulent counselors.

traitors against their kin.
16 Which kinds of sins are considered least serious by Dante?
those having to do with violence.

those having to do with money.

n/a

those resulting from incontinence.
17 Hell is
shaped like a cone.

incorporeal: it exists only in the imaginations of the sinners

n/a

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

treachery.

simony.

n/a
19 The Inferno was written during Dante's
imprisonment in Rome.

exile from Florence.

travels in France.

n/a
20 Dante wrote in
literary Italian.

Tuscan.

n/a

Latin.
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 Christmas.

the days before Easter.

n/a
23 The forest of twisted trees is in the
fifth circle.

n/a

second circle.

seventh circle.
24 Dante shows himself to be
occasionally frightened, but strong in his faith: he believes that Jesus loves him and won't abandon him.

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

n/a

heroic and unflinching in the sight of horror: the hero of his own poem, he was able to disguise the faults in his character.
25 Usurers are damned for
violence.

greed.

fraud.

lust.

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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In the Part 1 only: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri, describe Virgil's function in the Inferno.

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

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