Dante’s Inferno Cantos 9-21 UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
What is the significance of the poets being unable to enter the gate to Dis? - CORRECT
ANSWER - they couldn't reason their way through and thus shows how they were still
reliant on God
What is the sin of heresy? - CORRECT ANSWER - incorrect thinking about God
Explain how both Dante and Virgil feel at the beginning of Canto IX - CORRECT
ANSWER - fear that they may not be able to complete their journey
What is the punishment of the heretics? - CORRECT ANSWER - they are forced to lay in
tombs filled with fire of different degrees of heat
How is the number three seen in Canto IX? - CORRECT ANSWER - three furies
Explain what the angel says to the sinners. - CORRECT ANSWER - there is no point in
resisting God
Who are the Epicurean heretics? - CORRECT ANSWER - people who believe the soul
dies after death
When will the lids on the sepulchers be permanently shut? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Judgment Day
In Canto X, Dante learns that (except on rare situations) the souls have knowledge of what? -
CORRECT ANSWER - the future but not the present
, What is realized when Dante and Farinata speak? - CORRECT ANSWER - their families
have been rivals
What does Farinata prophesy regarding Dante? - CORRECT ANSWER - Dante will be
exiled
What three categories is the sin of violence broken into? - CORRECT ANSWER -
violence against others, violence against self, violence against God
What is the sin of simony? - CORRECT ANSWER - clergy accept bribes
What is the sin of the grafters? - CORRECT ANSWER - sell political privileges
Why do the incontinent suffer a lighter punishment? - CORRECT ANSWER - they sinned
to a lesser degree and thus offended God the least
Who wrote Physics? What does it discuss related to Canto XI? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Aristotle; describes the relationship between nature and art (art imitates nature)
What is the sin of usury? - CORRECT ANSWER - charging high interest rates (extortion)
What is the punishment of those violent against others? - CORRECT ANSWER - boiled in
blood
What is the river of blood in the Underworld named? - CORRECT ANSWER - Plegehton
Why do the Centaurs guard those violent against others? - CORRECT ANSWER - they are
half animal and killing (violence against others) is animalistic
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
What is the significance of the poets being unable to enter the gate to Dis? - CORRECT
ANSWER - they couldn't reason their way through and thus shows how they were still
reliant on God
What is the sin of heresy? - CORRECT ANSWER - incorrect thinking about God
Explain how both Dante and Virgil feel at the beginning of Canto IX - CORRECT
ANSWER - fear that they may not be able to complete their journey
What is the punishment of the heretics? - CORRECT ANSWER - they are forced to lay in
tombs filled with fire of different degrees of heat
How is the number three seen in Canto IX? - CORRECT ANSWER - three furies
Explain what the angel says to the sinners. - CORRECT ANSWER - there is no point in
resisting God
Who are the Epicurean heretics? - CORRECT ANSWER - people who believe the soul
dies after death
When will the lids on the sepulchers be permanently shut? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Judgment Day
In Canto X, Dante learns that (except on rare situations) the souls have knowledge of what? -
CORRECT ANSWER - the future but not the present
, What is realized when Dante and Farinata speak? - CORRECT ANSWER - their families
have been rivals
What does Farinata prophesy regarding Dante? - CORRECT ANSWER - Dante will be
exiled
What three categories is the sin of violence broken into? - CORRECT ANSWER -
violence against others, violence against self, violence against God
What is the sin of simony? - CORRECT ANSWER - clergy accept bribes
What is the sin of the grafters? - CORRECT ANSWER - sell political privileges
Why do the incontinent suffer a lighter punishment? - CORRECT ANSWER - they sinned
to a lesser degree and thus offended God the least
Who wrote Physics? What does it discuss related to Canto XI? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Aristotle; describes the relationship between nature and art (art imitates nature)
What is the sin of usury? - CORRECT ANSWER - charging high interest rates (extortion)
What is the punishment of those violent against others? - CORRECT ANSWER - boiled in
blood
What is the river of blood in the Underworld named? - CORRECT ANSWER - Plegehton
Why do the Centaurs guard those violent against others? - CORRECT ANSWER - they are
half animal and killing (violence against others) is animalistic
