DANTE STUDY GUIDE TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS WITH THOROUGH ANSWER
EXPLANATIONS
●● Who is Flippo Argenti?
Answer: A sinner who is in circle 5 (the wrathful). Dante knew him and
hated him causing Dante to want Flippo to be punished more.
●● What is the significance of Dante wanting Flippo to be punished
more?
Answer: Because this is the first time Dante wants someone to be
punished in hell. All of the other times he was sympathetic of the
sinners.
●● What is Dis?
Answer: The capital of hell. It's the Infernal city that makes up the sixth
circle of Hell, and the lower circles below.
●● Why is Dis called Dis?
Answer: Dis is another name for Pluto, King of the Underworld, and Dis
is another name for Satan.
,●● In Canto IX when Dante and Virgil are waiting to get into Dis, who
do they encounter?
Answer: The Three Infernal Furies (Magaera, Alecto, and Tisiphone)
who harass them and threaten to summon Medusa.
●● Who opens the gates of Dis for Dante and Virgil?
Answer: A divine messenger from God (probably like Gabriel or
something)
●● Which sinners are in circle 6 and how are they punished p?
Answer: The Heretics.
-they are in red hot tombs of iron
●● What is the symbolism/meaning behind the Heretics punishment?
Answer: The heretics denied immortality since they taught the soul dies
with the body so they are punished by an eternal grave in the fiery
morgue of God's wrath.
-*Heresy results in death of the soul*
●● What will happen to the heretics on Judgement day?
Answer: The tombs will be sealed shut forever symbolizing that they
will be "dead forever like they said the soul would be
●● What is Farinata Degli Uberti's prophecy to Dante (in Canto X)?
, Answer: That Dante will be exiled from Florence
●● What is the reference to Guido?
Answer: Daunted sees Guido's father, Cavalcante Dei Cavalcanti, in hell
and takes a jab at Guido since they were rival poets
●● What happened to the rock in circle 6?
Answer: The rock was broken during Christ's descent
-there was a huge earthquake when Christ went through hell
●● What time is it when Dante is in circle 6?
Answer: 4:30-5am on Holy Saturday
●● Which Pope does Dante encounter in circle 6?
Answer: Pope Anastasius, who was involved in the Great Schism in the
Cartholic church
●● What are the types of violent souls found in Circle 7?
Answer: -Violent Against Neighbor (murders)
-Violent Against Themselves (those who committed suicide)
-Violent Against their Substance (drug abusers)
-Violent Against God, Nature, and Art (blasphemers,
sodomites/homosexuals, and users/money lenders)
QUESTIONS WITH THOROUGH ANSWER
EXPLANATIONS
●● Who is Flippo Argenti?
Answer: A sinner who is in circle 5 (the wrathful). Dante knew him and
hated him causing Dante to want Flippo to be punished more.
●● What is the significance of Dante wanting Flippo to be punished
more?
Answer: Because this is the first time Dante wants someone to be
punished in hell. All of the other times he was sympathetic of the
sinners.
●● What is Dis?
Answer: The capital of hell. It's the Infernal city that makes up the sixth
circle of Hell, and the lower circles below.
●● Why is Dis called Dis?
Answer: Dis is another name for Pluto, King of the Underworld, and Dis
is another name for Satan.
,●● In Canto IX when Dante and Virgil are waiting to get into Dis, who
do they encounter?
Answer: The Three Infernal Furies (Magaera, Alecto, and Tisiphone)
who harass them and threaten to summon Medusa.
●● Who opens the gates of Dis for Dante and Virgil?
Answer: A divine messenger from God (probably like Gabriel or
something)
●● Which sinners are in circle 6 and how are they punished p?
Answer: The Heretics.
-they are in red hot tombs of iron
●● What is the symbolism/meaning behind the Heretics punishment?
Answer: The heretics denied immortality since they taught the soul dies
with the body so they are punished by an eternal grave in the fiery
morgue of God's wrath.
-*Heresy results in death of the soul*
●● What will happen to the heretics on Judgement day?
Answer: The tombs will be sealed shut forever symbolizing that they
will be "dead forever like they said the soul would be
●● What is Farinata Degli Uberti's prophecy to Dante (in Canto X)?
, Answer: That Dante will be exiled from Florence
●● What is the reference to Guido?
Answer: Daunted sees Guido's father, Cavalcante Dei Cavalcanti, in hell
and takes a jab at Guido since they were rival poets
●● What happened to the rock in circle 6?
Answer: The rock was broken during Christ's descent
-there was a huge earthquake when Christ went through hell
●● What time is it when Dante is in circle 6?
Answer: 4:30-5am on Holy Saturday
●● Which Pope does Dante encounter in circle 6?
Answer: Pope Anastasius, who was involved in the Great Schism in the
Cartholic church
●● What are the types of violent souls found in Circle 7?
Answer: -Violent Against Neighbor (murders)
-Violent Against Themselves (those who committed suicide)
-Violent Against their Substance (drug abusers)
-Violent Against God, Nature, and Art (blasphemers,
sodomites/homosexuals, and users/money lenders)
