Dante’s Inferno Test UPDATED ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Dante - CORRECT ANSWER - - 1265 to 1321; lives for 56 years and starts inferno at 35
- Born and raised in Florence, Italy
- studied law and rhetoric @ university
- Was a white Guelph
- Exiled from Florence for false accusations of embezzlement or the misuse or stealing of money
Political Conflict jn Florence, Italy - CORRECT ANSWER - - Guelphs vs. Ghillbelines
Guelphs - CORRECT ANSWER - - supported the papacy or pope
Ghillbelines - CORRECT ANSWER - - supported Holy Roman Empire/ emperor
Dante's Universe - CORRECT ANSWER - - Earth is the center of his universe
(geocentric)
- Inferno- hell, funnel, abyss, created by lucifer when he fell from heaven
- top of funnel- most sinful, bottom- least sinful
Divine Comedy - CORRECT ANSWER - - Started bad and ends good
- Began writing in 1308, close to when he died
- Struggle to reconcile self to exile through the trial of love(love+light= overcome anything)
- Investigates mankind's search for salvation
- Must descend to humility to rise to God
Comus Oda - CORRECT ANSWER - - rustic song
, Three Parts of Divine Comedy - CORRECT ANSWER - - Inferno- recognition of sin
- Purgatory or Purgatoria- renunciation/turn back on the sin
- Paradise or Paradisio- pinnacle of joy (high point)
Beatrice - CORRECT ANSWER - - met Dante when he was 9 and she was 18
- purgatory to paradise
- nice and kind
- linked to virgin mary
- sends virgil to get Dante through hell
Style and Structure - CORRECT ANSWER - - written in Italian vernacular
- Terza Rima rhyme scheme
- Motif of 3 and 9
- every writing has 33 cantos, except inferno with 34
- Dante's three day journey, started on Good friday and ended on Easter
- Allegory
Allegory - CORRECT ANSWER - - teach moral lesson
Allusion - CORRECT ANSWER - A reference to a well-known person, place, event,
literary work, or work of art
Inferno - CORRECT ANSWER - - souls called shades
- absent from gods light
- Virgil literary piece, Aeneid, inspired Inferno
How long is Dantes journey through Inferno - CORRECT ANSWER - - 3 days
- Good Friday to Easter
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Dante - CORRECT ANSWER - - 1265 to 1321; lives for 56 years and starts inferno at 35
- Born and raised in Florence, Italy
- studied law and rhetoric @ university
- Was a white Guelph
- Exiled from Florence for false accusations of embezzlement or the misuse or stealing of money
Political Conflict jn Florence, Italy - CORRECT ANSWER - - Guelphs vs. Ghillbelines
Guelphs - CORRECT ANSWER - - supported the papacy or pope
Ghillbelines - CORRECT ANSWER - - supported Holy Roman Empire/ emperor
Dante's Universe - CORRECT ANSWER - - Earth is the center of his universe
(geocentric)
- Inferno- hell, funnel, abyss, created by lucifer when he fell from heaven
- top of funnel- most sinful, bottom- least sinful
Divine Comedy - CORRECT ANSWER - - Started bad and ends good
- Began writing in 1308, close to when he died
- Struggle to reconcile self to exile through the trial of love(love+light= overcome anything)
- Investigates mankind's search for salvation
- Must descend to humility to rise to God
Comus Oda - CORRECT ANSWER - - rustic song
, Three Parts of Divine Comedy - CORRECT ANSWER - - Inferno- recognition of sin
- Purgatory or Purgatoria- renunciation/turn back on the sin
- Paradise or Paradisio- pinnacle of joy (high point)
Beatrice - CORRECT ANSWER - - met Dante when he was 9 and she was 18
- purgatory to paradise
- nice and kind
- linked to virgin mary
- sends virgil to get Dante through hell
Style and Structure - CORRECT ANSWER - - written in Italian vernacular
- Terza Rima rhyme scheme
- Motif of 3 and 9
- every writing has 33 cantos, except inferno with 34
- Dante's three day journey, started on Good friday and ended on Easter
- Allegory
Allegory - CORRECT ANSWER - - teach moral lesson
Allusion - CORRECT ANSWER - A reference to a well-known person, place, event,
literary work, or work of art
Inferno - CORRECT ANSWER - - souls called shades
- absent from gods light
- Virgil literary piece, Aeneid, inspired Inferno
How long is Dantes journey through Inferno - CORRECT ANSWER - - 3 days
- Good Friday to Easter
