Dante’s Inferno Test ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Leopard - CORRECT ANSWER - Malice and fraud
Lion - CORRECT ANSWER - Violence and ambition
She-wolf - CORRECT ANSWER - Incontinence
Virgil - CORRECT ANSWER - Symbol of human reason, sent to lead Dante from error
Beatrice - CORRECT ANSWER - Symbol of divine love, guide that takes over final
ascent
Dante - CORRECT ANSWER - Italian poet and Renaissance writer. His greatest work is
The Divine Comedy. From Florence, Italy
The opportunists - CORRECT ANSWER - First souls in tourment, souls who were neither
for good nor evil but only for themselves
Acheron - CORRECT ANSWER - First river in hell
Charon - CORRECT ANSWER - Ferryman of the underworld, refuses Dante passage
Inferno - CORRECT ANSWER - Recognition of sin, intense heat
Comus oda - CORRECT ANSWER - Rustic song
, Divine Comedy - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Inferno - recognition of sin, 34 cantos
2. Purgatory - renunciation of sin, 33 cantos
3. Paradise - pentacle of joy, 33 cantos
Terza Rima - CORRECT ANSWER - A three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc.
Allegory - CORRECT ANSWER - a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to
reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
Shades - CORRECT ANSWER - Souls, not standing in god's light
Vestibule - CORRECT ANSWER - Entry way to hell, to the opportunists, big sign over the
top
Anaphora - CORRECT ANSWER - the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of
successive clauses
Circle 1: Limbo - CORRECT ANSWER - Non Christians
Punishment: Shades feel no pain
Julius Caesar, Aristotle, Orpheus
Minos - CORRECT ANSWER - Guardian outside the Second Circle. Determines which
circle a soul is sent for punishment by his serpent tail
Ciacco - CORRECT ANSWER - Filthy pig
Circle 2: Lustful - CORRECT ANSWER - People who lost reason because of their
appetite
Punishment: tornado full of emotion, forever chasing the thing they most desired
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Leopard - CORRECT ANSWER - Malice and fraud
Lion - CORRECT ANSWER - Violence and ambition
She-wolf - CORRECT ANSWER - Incontinence
Virgil - CORRECT ANSWER - Symbol of human reason, sent to lead Dante from error
Beatrice - CORRECT ANSWER - Symbol of divine love, guide that takes over final
ascent
Dante - CORRECT ANSWER - Italian poet and Renaissance writer. His greatest work is
The Divine Comedy. From Florence, Italy
The opportunists - CORRECT ANSWER - First souls in tourment, souls who were neither
for good nor evil but only for themselves
Acheron - CORRECT ANSWER - First river in hell
Charon - CORRECT ANSWER - Ferryman of the underworld, refuses Dante passage
Inferno - CORRECT ANSWER - Recognition of sin, intense heat
Comus oda - CORRECT ANSWER - Rustic song
, Divine Comedy - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Inferno - recognition of sin, 34 cantos
2. Purgatory - renunciation of sin, 33 cantos
3. Paradise - pentacle of joy, 33 cantos
Terza Rima - CORRECT ANSWER - A three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc.
Allegory - CORRECT ANSWER - a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to
reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
Shades - CORRECT ANSWER - Souls, not standing in god's light
Vestibule - CORRECT ANSWER - Entry way to hell, to the opportunists, big sign over the
top
Anaphora - CORRECT ANSWER - the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of
successive clauses
Circle 1: Limbo - CORRECT ANSWER - Non Christians
Punishment: Shades feel no pain
Julius Caesar, Aristotle, Orpheus
Minos - CORRECT ANSWER - Guardian outside the Second Circle. Determines which
circle a soul is sent for punishment by his serpent tail
Ciacco - CORRECT ANSWER - Filthy pig
Circle 2: Lustful - CORRECT ANSWER - People who lost reason because of their
appetite
Punishment: tornado full of emotion, forever chasing the thing they most desired
