DANTE COMPLETE TEST BANK WITH
ACCURATE ANSWERS AND EXPERT
REVIEW NOTES
●● Who is in Limbo?
Answer: People who led virtuous lives before the advent of Christ or
were never baptized
●● Which four poets did they meet?
Answer: Homer, Horace, Ovid, Lucan
●● What are the Elysian Fields?
Answer: "Pagan Heaven"
Nice fields in hell, a classical idea
"meadow of fresh green"
●● Second Circle
Answer: Lust
Minos
Francesca and Paolo
●● Minos
,Answer: supernatural guardian
determines the level of hell sinners go to by the number of times his tail
wraps around him
●● Francesca and Paolo
Answer: Francesca cheated on her husband with Paolo, they both got
murdered. Now they must stay in Hell together forever. Paolo was just
crying in the background
●● Punishment for Lust
Answer: Being with people you don't love, but also can't enjoy bodily
connection with because of incessant winds
●● Third Circle
Answer: Gluttony
Hailstones, filthy water, heavy rain
Cerberus
Ciacco
●● Cerberus
Answer: "The Great Worm"
Three Headed dog
Association with Satan
, ●● Ciacco
Answer: "Hog" in third circle
Contrapasso: turned into a hog because of gluttony. Ciacco, a Florentine,
who used to be a parasite, as he was going from people to people,
gossiping on everyone. Ciacco gives Dante the first prophecy of his
future exile
●● Punishment for Gluttony
Answer: Have to lie on the ground as sewage rains down on them. They
lie in smelly, icy paste, swollen and obscene, and Cerberus stands guard
over them, ripping and tearing them with his claws and teeth.
●● Fourth Circle
Answer: Avarice and Prodigality
The Avaricious and Prodigals. No relevant character is found here. These
souls, mostly clerics, go opposite direction, bumping into each other as
they push big rocks.
Plutus
Fortune
●● Avaricious
Answer: greedy; mieserly
spend too little
ACCURATE ANSWERS AND EXPERT
REVIEW NOTES
●● Who is in Limbo?
Answer: People who led virtuous lives before the advent of Christ or
were never baptized
●● Which four poets did they meet?
Answer: Homer, Horace, Ovid, Lucan
●● What are the Elysian Fields?
Answer: "Pagan Heaven"
Nice fields in hell, a classical idea
"meadow of fresh green"
●● Second Circle
Answer: Lust
Minos
Francesca and Paolo
●● Minos
,Answer: supernatural guardian
determines the level of hell sinners go to by the number of times his tail
wraps around him
●● Francesca and Paolo
Answer: Francesca cheated on her husband with Paolo, they both got
murdered. Now they must stay in Hell together forever. Paolo was just
crying in the background
●● Punishment for Lust
Answer: Being with people you don't love, but also can't enjoy bodily
connection with because of incessant winds
●● Third Circle
Answer: Gluttony
Hailstones, filthy water, heavy rain
Cerberus
Ciacco
●● Cerberus
Answer: "The Great Worm"
Three Headed dog
Association with Satan
, ●● Ciacco
Answer: "Hog" in third circle
Contrapasso: turned into a hog because of gluttony. Ciacco, a Florentine,
who used to be a parasite, as he was going from people to people,
gossiping on everyone. Ciacco gives Dante the first prophecy of his
future exile
●● Punishment for Gluttony
Answer: Have to lie on the ground as sewage rains down on them. They
lie in smelly, icy paste, swollen and obscene, and Cerberus stands guard
over them, ripping and tearing them with his claws and teeth.
●● Fourth Circle
Answer: Avarice and Prodigality
The Avaricious and Prodigals. No relevant character is found here. These
souls, mostly clerics, go opposite direction, bumping into each other as
they push big rocks.
Plutus
Fortune
●● Avaricious
Answer: greedy; mieserly
spend too little
