DANTE'S INFERNO TEST REVIEW EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2024

DANTE'S INFERNO TEST REVIEW EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2024 Dante - Correct Answer PROTAGONIST poet; travels through hell by the grace of his love, Beatrice Virgil - Correct Answer PROTAGONIST symbolizes human reason; guides Dante through hell Beatrice - Correct Answer PROTAGONIST Dante's love; allows him to travel through hell. Symbol of Divine Love Angel at the Gates of Dis - Correct Answer PROTAGONIST divine messengers that help Dante enter circle Charon - Correct Answer GUARDIAN ferryman of souls across the Acheron Minos - Correct Answer GUARDIAN circle 2: judge of the dead Cerberus - Correct Answer GUARDIAN circle 3: 3 headed dog, symbol of gluttony. allows all to enter but none to escape Plutus - Correct Answer GAURDIAN circle 4: greek mythology's god of wealth Phlegyas - Correct Answer GAURDIAN circle 5: boatman of the River Styx. link between the wrathful and rebellious angels Minotaur - Correct Answer GUARDIAN circle 7 round 1: half man, half beast Centaurs - Correct Answer GUARDIAN circle 7 round 2: half man, half horse Harpies - Correct Answer GUARDIAN circle 7 round 2: half bird, half woman; Pope Celestine V - Correct Answer SINNER allowed himself to be convinced by a priest, Benedetto, to resign from his papacy (position as pope) Paolo and Francesca - Correct Answer SINNERS Francesca had an affair with her husband's younger brother Paulo, and Francesca's husband found out and killed them both Caicco the Hog - Correct Answer SINNER sin is gluttony and is from Florentine Filippo Argenti - Correct Answer SINNER one of the Adimari family who were political enemies of Dante Alexander the Great & Attila the Hun - Correct Answer SINNERS Alexander the Great: a king of bloodshed and despoilment Attila the Hun: King of the Huns & called the scourge of God Ugolino and Ruggieri - Correct Answer SINNERS Ruggieri was an archbishop and asked Ugolino to be the magistrate for Pisa. Ugolino gave away important fortresses and angered Ruggieri. Ruggieri starved Ugolino and his children to death. Punishment in the 9th circle round 2 of hell and Ugolino gnaws on Ruggieri's head/neck Brutus and Cassius - Correct Answer SINNERS betrayed and murdered Julius Ceasar, ruler of Rome. it was considered interfering with God's divine plan making the sin so severe. Judas - Correct Answer SINNER betrayed Jesus by giving him up for money Three Kinds of Moral Failure - Correct Answer Fraud, Violence, Incontinence Three Beasts of Worldliness - Correct Answer Leopard: Fraud and Malice Lion: Violence and Ambition She-Wolf: Incontinence Three Heavenly Women - Correct Answer 1) Beatrice 2) Mary Mother of God 3) Lucia Three Types of Souls in Limbo - Correct Answer 1) heroes & heroines 2) the philosophers 3) the naturalists What is the Harrowing of Hell? - Correct Answer It is when Christ decends into Hell and takes the souls before Christ's death to be saved Symbolism of the 3 Furies and Medusa - Correct Answer 3 Furies: malignant spirits who symbols of Eternal Remorse and the guilty conscience of the damned Medusa: gorgon, who ever looks at her turns to stone and represents the despair of ever winning the mercy of God 4 rings of the 9th circle - Correct Answer 1: Caïna 2: Antenora 3: Ptolomea 4: Judecca Inferno as an Allegory - Correct Answer Double Meaning= literal: journey through hell alternate: how to live life Dante the Pilgrim vs Dante the Poet - Correct Answer Pilgrim: - character in the Divine Comedy - naive and gullible - believes the "spin" of sinners in the beginning - set in 1300, before Dante's exile - will hear prophecies of his exile Poet: - author of the Divine Comedy - older wiser version of the pilgrim - exiled in 1302 - knows God doesn't make mistakes Who carries Virgil and Dante across the river of boiling blood? - Correct Answer Nessus Who is Pier delle Vigne? a) Holy Roman Emperor b) Chief of Staff/servant to Fredrick II c) Guardian of the Gate in Canto 13 d) Dante and Virgil's guide through circle 7 - Correct Answer chief of staff/servant to Fredrick II How does one make a soul speak in the Wood of Suicides? a) eat the leaves off the tree b) burn the tree c) threaten to walk away from the tree d) break of a twig/branch from the tree e) ask its name - Correct Answer break off a twig/branch from the tree In circle 7 these sinners suffer from different degrees of: a) Fire b) Muddy water/ Sludge c) Wind d) Ice - Correct Answer Fire In circle 7 the ground is like: a) a desert b) a veldt c) a lake d) a forest e) a meadow - Correct Answer a desert In circle 7 what falls from the sky? a) Hail b) Fire c) Nothing d) Rain - Correct Answer Fire Vestibule Punishment - Correct Answer the opportunists, race round and round chasing a banner that runs forever. stung by wasps and hornets & the blood/puss that trickles down off their body is eaten by maggots Circle 1 Limbo Punishment - Correct Answer no hope of God REASON: born without the revelation of Christ Circle 2 Lust Punishment - Correct Answer whirled and buffeted endlessly through the murky air (symbolic of clouding of their judgment by passion) by a great gale (symbolic of their lust) Circle 3 Gluttony Punishment - Correct Answer Half-buried in fetid slush from stinking snow and freezing rain REASON: made no use of the gifts God gave them but to wallow in food and drink producing nothing but garbage Circle 4 Greed Punishment - Correct Answer two raging mobs, each soul among them staring madly at a great boulder-like weight & the two mobs crash into each other, then separate and repeat the process REASON: lacked all moderation in regulating, & destroyed the light of God in themselves by thinking of only money Circle 5 Wrath Punishment - Correct Answer souls attack each other endlessly while eternally stuck in the foul slime of the river of styx Circle 6 Heresy Punishment - Correct Answer eternal grave in the fiery morgue of God's wrath (buried in a grave forever) REASON: taught that the soul dies with body so are forced to be in an eternal grave, death within death Circle 7 Violence Punishment - Correct Answer ROUND 1: (violent against their neighbors) immersed in boiling blood forever according to the degree of guilt REASON 1: wallowed in blood during their life ROUND 2: (violent against themselves) souls encased in thorny trees continuously broken by the Harpies and hounds (Wood of Suicides) REASON 2: destroyed their own lives and bodies so they no longer get a body in hell ROUND 3: (violence against God, nature, & art) on a plain of burning sand scorched by rain of fire. the blasphemers (violent towards God) are stretched out on the sand, the sodomites (violent towards nature) are run in endless circles, & the usurers (violent against art) are huddled on the sand Circle 9 Treachery Punishment - Correct Answer Caïna: (Cain, treachery to kin) frozen in ice with head & neck above the ice, but are able to bow their heads giving them protection from the wind freezing their tears causing their eyes to freeze shut Antenora: (Antenor, treachery to country) frozen in ice with head above ice, but cannot bend their heads Ptolomea: (Ptolomaeus, treachery to guests/hosts) frozen in ice with half of their faces above the ice, tears freeze in their eye sockets Judecca: (Judas, treachery to master) completely frozen in ice, twisted and distorted into every posture Name all the circles of Hell - Correct Answer Circle 1: Limbo Circle 2: Lust Circle 3: Gluttony Circle 4: Greed Circle 5: Wrath Circle 6: Heresy Circle 7: Violence Circle 8: Fraud Circle 9: Treachery 1) Describe Old Man of Crete. 2) How where the rivers and streams of hell created? - Correct Answer 1) a giant; his head is gold, chest and arms are silver, rest of his torso is brass, lower body is iron except for right foot which is terra cotta. 2) endless tears from the giant drip down becoming the rivers of Acheron, Phlegethon, and Styx Circle 1 Sinners - Correct Answer Virtuous Pagans Circle 2 Sinners - Correct Answer The Carnal, those who betrayed reason for passion/appetite Circle 3 Sinners - Correct Answer Gluttons Circle 4 Sinners - Correct Answer Hoarders & Wasters Circle 5 Sinners - Correct Answer Wrathful Circle 6 Sinners - Correct Answer Heretics, specifically those who did violence to God by denying immortality Circle 7 Sinners - Correct Answer Violent Against: 1) neighbors 2) themselves 3) God, nature, & art Circle 8 Sinners - Correct Answer 1) seducers & panderers 2) flatterers 3) Simoniacs 4) Fortune tellers and dividers 5) grafters 6) Hypocrites 7) thieves 8) evil counselors 9) sowers of discord 10) counterfeiters and alchemists Circle 9 Sinners - Correct Answer 1) treachery to kin 2) treachery to country 3) treachery to guests 4) treachery to master What is the structure of the epic poem? - Correct Answer terects & terza rima Who is Dante's guide through Hell? - Correct Answer Virgil How long does Dante's journey take? - Correct Answer 5 1/2 days When does Dante's journey begin and end? - Correct Answer Begins: the night before Good Friday (Holy Thursday) Ends: Easter Wednesday What year does the epic poem take place and how old is Dante? - Correct Answer year of 1300, Dante is 35 What language was the divine comedy written in? - Correct Answer Dante's vulgar language, Italian Two Reasons People Sin - Correct Answer 1) A Lack of Will 2) An Attractive Veneer Poets that Welcome Dante in Circle 1 - Correct Answer Homer, Horace, Ovid,