DANTE'S INFERNO 2026/2027 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS
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✔✔Canto XVI - ✔✔Still the Seventh Circle, Third Ring, Second Zone: other Sodomites.
Three Florentines, Guida Guerra, TegghiaioAldobrandi, Jacopo Rusticucci. The
decadence of Florence. Phlegethon, cascading into the next zone. The cord of Dante,
used by Virgil to summon a monstrous figure from the waters.
✔✔Canto XVII - ✔✔The monster Geryon. The Seventh Circle, Third Ring, Third Zone:
the Violent against Nature and Art (Usurers), each seated beneath the rain of fire with a
purse - bearing his family's heraldic emblem - around his neck. Descent to the Eighth
Circle on the back of Geryon.
✔✔Canto XVIII - ✔✔The Eighth Circle, called Malebolge ("Evil-Pouches"), with its Ten
Pouches, where "ordinary" fraud is punished. The First Pouch, with Panders and
Seducers scourged by horned demons. Venedico Caccianemico. Jason. The Second
Pouch, with Flatterers immersed in excrement. Alessio Interminei. Thais.
✔✔Canto XIX - ✔✔The Eighth Circle, Third Pouch, where the Simonists are set, heads
down, into holes in the rock, with their protruding feet tormented by flames. Pope
Nicholas III. Dante's invective against simoniacal popes.
✔✔O Simon Magus! O his sad disciples!
Rapacious ones, who take the things of God,
that ought to be the brides of Righteousness,
and make them fornicate for gold and silver!
The time has come to let the trumpet sound
for you; your place is here in this third pouch. - ✔✔Inferno 19
(Eighth Circle, Third Pouch)
✔✔I stood as does the friar who confesses
the foul assassin who, fixed fast, head down,
calls back the friar, and so delays his death;
and he cried out: "Are you already standing,
already standing there, o Boniface?
The book has lied to me by several years.
Are you so quickly sated with the riches
for which you did not fear to take by guile
the Lovely Lady, then to violate her?" - ✔✔Inferno 19
(Eighth Circle, Third Pouch)
✔✔Canto XX - ✔✔The Eighth Circle, Fourth Pouch, where Diviners, Astrologers,
Magicians, all have their heads turned backward. Amphiaraus. Tiresias. Aruns. Manto.
Virgil on the origin of Mantua, his native city. Eurypylus. Michael Scot and other
moderns adept at fraud.
, ✔✔Canto XXI - ✔✔The Eighth Circle, Fifth Pouch, with Barrators plunged into boiling
pitch and guarded by demons armed with prongs. A newly arrived magistrate from
Lucca. Ten demons assigned by Malacoda ("Evil-Tail"), the chief of the Malebranche
("Evil-Claws"), to escort Dante and Virgil. The remarkable signal for their march.
✔✔Canto XXII - ✔✔Still the Eighth Circle, Fifth Pouch: the Barrators. The barrator from
Navarre. Fra Gomita and Michele Zanche, two Sardinians. The astuteness of the
Navarrese that leads two demons to fall into the pitch.
✔✔Canto XXIII - ✔✔Still the Eighth Circle, Fifth Pouch: the Barrators. Pursuit by the
demons, with Virgil snatching up Dante and sliding down to the Sixth Pouch, where the
Hypocrites file along slowly, clothed in caps of lead. Two Jovial Friars of Bologna,
Catalano and Loderingo. Caiaphas. Virgil's distress at Malacoda's deceitfulness.
✔✔Canto XXIV - ✔✔Still the Eighth Circle, Sixth Pouch: the Thieves. Bitten by a
serpent, a thieving sinner who turns to ashes and s then restored: Vanni Fucci. His
prediction of the defeat of the Whites - Dante's party - at Pistoia.
✔✔Canto XXV - ✔✔Still the Eighth Circle, Seventh Pouch: the Theives. Vanni Fucci
and his obscene figs against God. The Centaur Cacus. Five Florentine Thieves, three of
them humans and two of them serpents. The astounding metamorphoses undergone by
four of them.
✔✔Canto XXVI - ✔✔Still the Eighth Circle, Seventh Pouch: the Thieves. Dante's
invective against Florence. View of the Eighth Pouch, where Fraudulent Counselors are
clohed in the flames that burn them. Ulysses and Diomedes in one shared flame.
Ulysses' tale of his final voyage.
✔✔It grieved me then and now grieves me again
when I direct my mind to what I saw;
and more than usual, I curb my talent,
that it not run where virtue does not guide;
so that, if my kind star or something better
has given me that gift, I not abuse it. - ✔✔Inferno 26
(Eighth Circle, Eighth Pouch)
✔✔As many as the fireflies the peasant
(while resting on a hillside in the season
when he who lights the world least hides his face),
just when the fly gives way to the mosquito,
sees glimmering below, down in the valley,
there where perhaps he gathers grapes and tills—
so many were the flames that glittered in
the eighth abyss; I made this out as soon
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✔✔Canto XVI - ✔✔Still the Seventh Circle, Third Ring, Second Zone: other Sodomites.
Three Florentines, Guida Guerra, TegghiaioAldobrandi, Jacopo Rusticucci. The
decadence of Florence. Phlegethon, cascading into the next zone. The cord of Dante,
used by Virgil to summon a monstrous figure from the waters.
✔✔Canto XVII - ✔✔The monster Geryon. The Seventh Circle, Third Ring, Third Zone:
the Violent against Nature and Art (Usurers), each seated beneath the rain of fire with a
purse - bearing his family's heraldic emblem - around his neck. Descent to the Eighth
Circle on the back of Geryon.
✔✔Canto XVIII - ✔✔The Eighth Circle, called Malebolge ("Evil-Pouches"), with its Ten
Pouches, where "ordinary" fraud is punished. The First Pouch, with Panders and
Seducers scourged by horned demons. Venedico Caccianemico. Jason. The Second
Pouch, with Flatterers immersed in excrement. Alessio Interminei. Thais.
✔✔Canto XIX - ✔✔The Eighth Circle, Third Pouch, where the Simonists are set, heads
down, into holes in the rock, with their protruding feet tormented by flames. Pope
Nicholas III. Dante's invective against simoniacal popes.
✔✔O Simon Magus! O his sad disciples!
Rapacious ones, who take the things of God,
that ought to be the brides of Righteousness,
and make them fornicate for gold and silver!
The time has come to let the trumpet sound
for you; your place is here in this third pouch. - ✔✔Inferno 19
(Eighth Circle, Third Pouch)
✔✔I stood as does the friar who confesses
the foul assassin who, fixed fast, head down,
calls back the friar, and so delays his death;
and he cried out: "Are you already standing,
already standing there, o Boniface?
The book has lied to me by several years.
Are you so quickly sated with the riches
for which you did not fear to take by guile
the Lovely Lady, then to violate her?" - ✔✔Inferno 19
(Eighth Circle, Third Pouch)
✔✔Canto XX - ✔✔The Eighth Circle, Fourth Pouch, where Diviners, Astrologers,
Magicians, all have their heads turned backward. Amphiaraus. Tiresias. Aruns. Manto.
Virgil on the origin of Mantua, his native city. Eurypylus. Michael Scot and other
moderns adept at fraud.
, ✔✔Canto XXI - ✔✔The Eighth Circle, Fifth Pouch, with Barrators plunged into boiling
pitch and guarded by demons armed with prongs. A newly arrived magistrate from
Lucca. Ten demons assigned by Malacoda ("Evil-Tail"), the chief of the Malebranche
("Evil-Claws"), to escort Dante and Virgil. The remarkable signal for their march.
✔✔Canto XXII - ✔✔Still the Eighth Circle, Fifth Pouch: the Barrators. The barrator from
Navarre. Fra Gomita and Michele Zanche, two Sardinians. The astuteness of the
Navarrese that leads two demons to fall into the pitch.
✔✔Canto XXIII - ✔✔Still the Eighth Circle, Fifth Pouch: the Barrators. Pursuit by the
demons, with Virgil snatching up Dante and sliding down to the Sixth Pouch, where the
Hypocrites file along slowly, clothed in caps of lead. Two Jovial Friars of Bologna,
Catalano and Loderingo. Caiaphas. Virgil's distress at Malacoda's deceitfulness.
✔✔Canto XXIV - ✔✔Still the Eighth Circle, Sixth Pouch: the Thieves. Bitten by a
serpent, a thieving sinner who turns to ashes and s then restored: Vanni Fucci. His
prediction of the defeat of the Whites - Dante's party - at Pistoia.
✔✔Canto XXV - ✔✔Still the Eighth Circle, Seventh Pouch: the Theives. Vanni Fucci
and his obscene figs against God. The Centaur Cacus. Five Florentine Thieves, three of
them humans and two of them serpents. The astounding metamorphoses undergone by
four of them.
✔✔Canto XXVI - ✔✔Still the Eighth Circle, Seventh Pouch: the Thieves. Dante's
invective against Florence. View of the Eighth Pouch, where Fraudulent Counselors are
clohed in the flames that burn them. Ulysses and Diomedes in one shared flame.
Ulysses' tale of his final voyage.
✔✔It grieved me then and now grieves me again
when I direct my mind to what I saw;
and more than usual, I curb my talent,
that it not run where virtue does not guide;
so that, if my kind star or something better
has given me that gift, I not abuse it. - ✔✔Inferno 26
(Eighth Circle, Eighth Pouch)
✔✔As many as the fireflies the peasant
(while resting on a hillside in the season
when he who lights the world least hides his face),
just when the fly gives way to the mosquito,
sees glimmering below, down in the valley,
there where perhaps he gathers grapes and tills—
so many were the flames that glittered in
the eighth abyss; I made this out as soon
