Dante Test – Paradiso – Questions with Answers

Dante Test – Paradiso – Questions with
Answers
Where are Dante and Beatrice at the beginning of the Paradiso? - -The
earthly paradise

-What does Dante imitate Beatrice in doing? - -Staring at the sun

-Where do Dante and Beatrice pass through as they soar? - -The sphere of
fire where they first hear the music of the spheres

-What is the first sphere of Heaven? - -The Moon

-What does Beatrice explain to Dante on the Moon? - -The truth of the
Moon's markings

-What souls reside in the sphere of the Moon? - -The Inconstant

-Name two of the Inconstant - -Piccarda
Empress Constance

-What does Piccarda explain to Dante? - -Every soul in Heaven rejoices fully
at where God put them

-Who says, "In His Will is our peace?" - -Piccarda

-What question does Dante grapple with on the Moon? - -Free will (Plato's
theory that everything is essentially predetermined)

-What is the second sphere of Heaven? - -Mercury

-What souls reside on Mercury? - -The Seekers of Honor

-Name one soul who is a Seeker of Honor - -Emperor Justinian

-What does Justinian discourse on? - -The Roman Eagle

-What hymn do Justinian and his companions sing? - -Hymn to the God of
Battles

-What does Beatrice's discourse on Mercury deal with? - -The double nature
of the Crucifixion and why the Crucifixion was the greatest act of all eternity

-What is the third sphere of Heaven? - -Venus