Dante's Inferno- Final Exam – 57 Questions with Answers

Dante's Inferno- Final Exam – 57
Questions with Answers
what are the three parts of the divine comedy? - -purgatory, paradise,
inferno

-why is it called the divine comedy? - -Dante ends up going to heaven which
results in a happy ending

-three categories of sin - -fraud, violence, incontinence

-what does symbolic retribution mean? - -Dante used symbols to punish
sinners, the punishment reflected their sin on earth

-cocytus - -frozen river

-styx - -river of hate

-phlegethon - -river of fire

-Acheron - -river of woe

-judge of hell - -minos

-where is Giovanni going in hell? - -fraud against kindred

-how many coils can minos wrap around his body? - -9 coils

-how are Francesca and Paulo related? - -Francesca was married to his
brother, Giovanni in which she had an affair with paolo

-plutus - -wolf in hell

-suffers in the lustful - -Francesca

-is betrayed in marriage - -Giovanni

-forever roams the citadel with no hope - -homer

-leads souls across Acheron - -charon

-dante's poetic inspiration - -virgil

-reads the story of Lancelot with his lover - -Paolo