Dante’s Inferno Test Questions With Verified
Correct Answers!!
Leopard - ✔✔Malice and fraud
Lion - ✔✔Violence and ambition
She-wolf - ✔✔Incontinence
Virgil - ✔✔Symbol of human reason, sent to lead Dante from error
Beatrice - ✔✔Symbol of divine love, guide that takes over final ascent
Dante - ✔✔Italian poet and Renaissance writer. His greatest work is The Divine Comedy.
From Florence, Italy
The opportunists - ✔✔First souls in tourment, souls who were neither for good nor evil but
only for themselves
Acheron - ✔✔First river in hell
Charon - ✔✔Ferryman of the underworld, refuses Dante passage
Inferno - ✔✔Recognition of sin, intense heat
Comus oda - ✔✔Rustic song
Divine Comedy - ✔✔1. Inferno - recognition of sin, 34 cantos
, 2. Purgatory - renunciation of sin, 33 cantos
3. Paradise - pentacle of joy, 33 cantos
Terza Rima - ✔✔A three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc.
Allegory - ✔✔a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning,
typically a moral or political one.
Shades - ✔✔Souls, not standing in god's light
Vestibule - ✔✔Entry way to hell, to the opportunists, big sign over the top
Anaphora - ✔✔the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
Circle 1: Limbo - ✔✔Non Christians
Punishment: Shades feel no pain
Julius Caesar, Aristotle, Orpheus
Minos - ✔✔Guardian outside the Second Circle. Determines which circle a soul is sent for
punishment by his serpent tail
Ciacco - ✔✔Filthy pig
Circle 2: Lustful - ✔✔People who lost reason because of their appetite
Punishment: tornado full of emotion, forever chasing the thing they most desired
Helen, Cleopatra, Achilles, Tristan
Correct Answers!!
Leopard - ✔✔Malice and fraud
Lion - ✔✔Violence and ambition
She-wolf - ✔✔Incontinence
Virgil - ✔✔Symbol of human reason, sent to lead Dante from error
Beatrice - ✔✔Symbol of divine love, guide that takes over final ascent
Dante - ✔✔Italian poet and Renaissance writer. His greatest work is The Divine Comedy.
From Florence, Italy
The opportunists - ✔✔First souls in tourment, souls who were neither for good nor evil but
only for themselves
Acheron - ✔✔First river in hell
Charon - ✔✔Ferryman of the underworld, refuses Dante passage
Inferno - ✔✔Recognition of sin, intense heat
Comus oda - ✔✔Rustic song
Divine Comedy - ✔✔1. Inferno - recognition of sin, 34 cantos
, 2. Purgatory - renunciation of sin, 33 cantos
3. Paradise - pentacle of joy, 33 cantos
Terza Rima - ✔✔A three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc.
Allegory - ✔✔a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning,
typically a moral or political one.
Shades - ✔✔Souls, not standing in god's light
Vestibule - ✔✔Entry way to hell, to the opportunists, big sign over the top
Anaphora - ✔✔the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
Circle 1: Limbo - ✔✔Non Christians
Punishment: Shades feel no pain
Julius Caesar, Aristotle, Orpheus
Minos - ✔✔Guardian outside the Second Circle. Determines which circle a soul is sent for
punishment by his serpent tail
Ciacco - ✔✔Filthy pig
Circle 2: Lustful - ✔✔People who lost reason because of their appetite
Punishment: tornado full of emotion, forever chasing the thing they most desired
Helen, Cleopatra, Achilles, Tristan
