DANTE'S INFERNO END OF COURSE 2026/2027
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔White with a blue pregnant sow - the Scrovegni family; associated with the Becchi
family (Vitaliano del Dente and Giovanni Buimonte will go to hell soon) - ✔✔Identify one
of the usurers and their associated money-lending family mentioned in the passage.
✔✔Reginaldo Scrovegni - ✔✔Who predicts the arrival for two usurers still alive during
Dante's visit?
✔✔Blue - ✔✔What color are Geryon's nails?
✔✔So they don't fall off - ✔✔Why does Virgil request Geryon to fly in wide circles?
✔✔Apollo's son; brought the sun too close to the earth and Zeus had to save everyone
by throwing a lightning bolt at him and killing him - ✔✔Who is Phaeton and what
happens to him?
✔✔To the dread that Phaeton felt when he fell to earth - ✔✔How Dante compare his
own dread while riding on Geryon's back?
✔✔They made wings out of feathers and wax; Icarus went too close to the sun and his
wings melted and he died in the ocean below - ✔✔How did Daedalus and Icarus
escape from King Minos?
✔✔Creating the semblance of reality; using the allusions and said that the wind was
rushing in his face (sensory language) - ✔✔What is verisimilitude and how does Dante
use it in his description of the flight?
✔✔They're for each different king of fraudulent sin - ✔✔Why does the eighth circle of
Hell have ten concentric "pouches" instead of rings?
✔✔Bolognese who has prostituted his own sister to his sin for to win favor with the
monarchy - ✔✔Who is Venedico Caccianemico and what is his notorious act?
✔✔Because many people from bologna normalized prostituting family and friends -
✔✔Why does Caccianemico claim to have a lot of company in this "pouch" of Hell?
✔✔"Yes" but in a permission sort of way - ✔✔What does the word "sipa" mean in the
Bolognese dialect?
, ✔✔Because they've been walking beside him in the same direction; To teach him the
nature of sin and a its consequences; know what to stay away from - ✔✔Why does
Virgil ask Dante to stop and look at the sinners?
✔✔Being a seducer towards hypsipyle and Medea then abandoning them when they
got pregnant - ✔✔Why is Jason in the eighth circle of Hell?
✔✔She puts the dragon guarding it to sleep then gets oxen to pull the fleece from the
tree - ✔✔What did Medea do to help Jason steal the Golden Fleece?
✔✔To marry Glauce (King Creon's of Corinth's daughter); Jason wanted to become
King - ✔✔Why did Jason abandon Medea and his children after acquiring the fleece?
✔✔Charming, flattering, manipulative, leader of Italian army, White Guelph from Lucca,
Italy; he was a flatterer so he was depicted as covered in excrement - ✔✔Who is Alesia
Interminei and how is he depicted in the text?
✔✔She fakes gratitude when given a gift - ✔✔Why is Thais considered a false flatterer?
✔✔Venedico, who is forced to walk in a circle and endure whippings by demons; it's
justified because he prostituted his sister and now he's enduring a worse version of
what suffering he caused her - ✔✔Based on the information provided in Canto 18,
discuss whether the punishment for these sinners in justified.
✔✔The poet apparently values loyalty to one's leaders, or masters, above all else and
condemns disloyalty - ✔✔Why do you think k the poet considers those who have been
treacherous to their masters to be the worst sinners? Do you agree? Why or why not?
✔✔The sinners are completely immobile, frozen in ice - ✔✔What punishment do the
sinners suffer at the bottom of hell?
✔✔Devil, Satan, Lucifer, Hades, etc. - ✔✔Virgil speaks of Dis, also known as Dis Pater.
He was a Roman god of the dead and ruled the underworld. What other names do we
know that refer to this character throughout different cultures and religions?
✔✔The hissing sound of a snake occurs in words: wings, rose, span, so gross, and saw
such sails; seas - ✔✔What sound accompanies the description of Satan's wings?
✔✔They are literally climbing down the body of Satan. Allegorically, this shows that
resisting temptation is as challenging as confronting Satan himself. - ✔✔What Dante
and Virgil literally doing in Canto 34?What is the allegorical significance of their actions?
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔White with a blue pregnant sow - the Scrovegni family; associated with the Becchi
family (Vitaliano del Dente and Giovanni Buimonte will go to hell soon) - ✔✔Identify one
of the usurers and their associated money-lending family mentioned in the passage.
✔✔Reginaldo Scrovegni - ✔✔Who predicts the arrival for two usurers still alive during
Dante's visit?
✔✔Blue - ✔✔What color are Geryon's nails?
✔✔So they don't fall off - ✔✔Why does Virgil request Geryon to fly in wide circles?
✔✔Apollo's son; brought the sun too close to the earth and Zeus had to save everyone
by throwing a lightning bolt at him and killing him - ✔✔Who is Phaeton and what
happens to him?
✔✔To the dread that Phaeton felt when he fell to earth - ✔✔How Dante compare his
own dread while riding on Geryon's back?
✔✔They made wings out of feathers and wax; Icarus went too close to the sun and his
wings melted and he died in the ocean below - ✔✔How did Daedalus and Icarus
escape from King Minos?
✔✔Creating the semblance of reality; using the allusions and said that the wind was
rushing in his face (sensory language) - ✔✔What is verisimilitude and how does Dante
use it in his description of the flight?
✔✔They're for each different king of fraudulent sin - ✔✔Why does the eighth circle of
Hell have ten concentric "pouches" instead of rings?
✔✔Bolognese who has prostituted his own sister to his sin for to win favor with the
monarchy - ✔✔Who is Venedico Caccianemico and what is his notorious act?
✔✔Because many people from bologna normalized prostituting family and friends -
✔✔Why does Caccianemico claim to have a lot of company in this "pouch" of Hell?
✔✔"Yes" but in a permission sort of way - ✔✔What does the word "sipa" mean in the
Bolognese dialect?
, ✔✔Because they've been walking beside him in the same direction; To teach him the
nature of sin and a its consequences; know what to stay away from - ✔✔Why does
Virgil ask Dante to stop and look at the sinners?
✔✔Being a seducer towards hypsipyle and Medea then abandoning them when they
got pregnant - ✔✔Why is Jason in the eighth circle of Hell?
✔✔She puts the dragon guarding it to sleep then gets oxen to pull the fleece from the
tree - ✔✔What did Medea do to help Jason steal the Golden Fleece?
✔✔To marry Glauce (King Creon's of Corinth's daughter); Jason wanted to become
King - ✔✔Why did Jason abandon Medea and his children after acquiring the fleece?
✔✔Charming, flattering, manipulative, leader of Italian army, White Guelph from Lucca,
Italy; he was a flatterer so he was depicted as covered in excrement - ✔✔Who is Alesia
Interminei and how is he depicted in the text?
✔✔She fakes gratitude when given a gift - ✔✔Why is Thais considered a false flatterer?
✔✔Venedico, who is forced to walk in a circle and endure whippings by demons; it's
justified because he prostituted his sister and now he's enduring a worse version of
what suffering he caused her - ✔✔Based on the information provided in Canto 18,
discuss whether the punishment for these sinners in justified.
✔✔The poet apparently values loyalty to one's leaders, or masters, above all else and
condemns disloyalty - ✔✔Why do you think k the poet considers those who have been
treacherous to their masters to be the worst sinners? Do you agree? Why or why not?
✔✔The sinners are completely immobile, frozen in ice - ✔✔What punishment do the
sinners suffer at the bottom of hell?
✔✔Devil, Satan, Lucifer, Hades, etc. - ✔✔Virgil speaks of Dis, also known as Dis Pater.
He was a Roman god of the dead and ruled the underworld. What other names do we
know that refer to this character throughout different cultures and religions?
✔✔The hissing sound of a snake occurs in words: wings, rose, span, so gross, and saw
such sails; seas - ✔✔What sound accompanies the description of Satan's wings?
✔✔They are literally climbing down the body of Satan. Allegorically, this shows that
resisting temptation is as challenging as confronting Satan himself. - ✔✔What Dante
and Virgil literally doing in Canto 34?What is the allegorical significance of their actions?
