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Dante's Inferno Character List Questions
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Dante
Ans: The author and protagonist of Inferno; the focus of all
action and interaction with other characters.
Virgil
Ans: Dante's guide through the depths of Hell.(Human Reason)
Beatrice
Ans: One of the blessed in Heaven, Beatrice aids Dante's
journey by asking an angel to find Virgil and bid him guide
Dante through Hell. Like Dante and Virgil, Beatrice corresponds
to a historical personage.
Charon
Ans: A figure that Dante appropriates from Greek mythology,
Charon is an old man who ferries souls across the river Acheron
to Hell.
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Paolo and Francesca da Rimini
Ans: A pair of lovers condemned to the Second Circle of Hell
for an adulterous love affair that they began after rea ding the
story of Lancelot and Guinevere.
Lucifer
Ans: The prince of Hell resides at the bottom of the Ninth )
Circle of Hell with his body jutting through the planet's center.
An enormous giant, he has three faces but does not speak; his
three mouths are busy chewing three of history's greatest
traitors: Judas, the betrayer of Christ, and Cassius and Brutus,
the betrayers of Julius Caesar.
Minos
Ans: a giant beast who stands at the Second Circle of Hell,
deciding where the souls of sinners shall be sent for torment.
Pope Boniface VIII
Ans: A notoriously corrupt pope who reigned from 1294 to
1303, Boniface made a concerted attempt to increase the
political might of the Catholic Church and was thus a political
enemy of Dante,
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Dante's Inferno Character List Questions
and Correct Answers/ Latest Update /
Already Graded
Dante
Ans: The author and protagonist of Inferno; the focus of all
action and interaction with other characters.
Virgil
Ans: Dante's guide through the depths of Hell.(Human Reason)
Beatrice
Ans: One of the blessed in Heaven, Beatrice aids Dante's
journey by asking an angel to find Virgil and bid him guide
Dante through Hell. Like Dante and Virgil, Beatrice corresponds
to a historical personage.
Charon
Ans: A figure that Dante appropriates from Greek mythology,
Charon is an old man who ferries souls across the river Acheron
to Hell.
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Paolo and Francesca da Rimini
Ans: A pair of lovers condemned to the Second Circle of Hell
for an adulterous love affair that they began after rea ding the
story of Lancelot and Guinevere.
Lucifer
Ans: The prince of Hell resides at the bottom of the Ninth )
Circle of Hell with his body jutting through the planet's center.
An enormous giant, he has three faces but does not speak; his
three mouths are busy chewing three of history's greatest
traitors: Judas, the betrayer of Christ, and Cassius and Brutus,
the betrayers of Julius Caesar.
Minos
Ans: a giant beast who stands at the Second Circle of Hell,
deciding where the souls of sinners shall be sent for torment.
Pope Boniface VIII
Ans: A notoriously corrupt pope who reigned from 1294 to
1303, Boniface made a concerted attempt to increase the
political might of the Catholic Church and was thus a political
enemy of Dante,
All rights reserved © 2025/ 2026 |
