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Divine Comedy-I: Inferno Quiz 1

  • 1. Virgil appears to lead Dante back to the path of righteousness because
    •     he is a fellow-poet.
    •     n/a
    •     God told him to do so.
    •     Beatrice asked him to do so.

  • 2. Hell is made up of:
    •     seven circles.
    •     n/a
    •     nine circles.
    •     five circles.

  • 3. As Dante descends into Hell, the sins that he comes across become
    •     more serious.
    •     less serious.
    •     different, but of the same degree in the eyes of God.
    •     n/a

  • 4. The souls who are stung by wasps outside of Hell are
    •     non-Christians, who were not admitted into the places of reward and of punishment of Christianity.
    •     the fallen angels.
    •     the neutral souls.
    •     n/a

  • 5. The first infernal river is the
    •     Acheron.
    •     Styx.
    •     Cocytus.
    •     n/a

  • 6. In Dante's system, murder is
    •     less serious than flattery and more serious than gluttony.
    •     less serious than fraud and more serious than heresy.
    •     less serious than lust and more serious than fraud.
    •     n/a

  • 7. Minos is
    •     half-bull and half-man, the product of a bestial love between Pasiphae and a bull.
    •     a demon who judges the gravity of the souls' sins.
    •     a demon who guards the barrators and keeps them from getting out of the boiling pitch.
    •     n/a

  • 8. Dante's attitude towards the sodomites is
    •     respectful, since he had admired them during their lifetimes.
    •     sympathetic, since he too had a homosexual relationship with Virgil.
    •     n/a
    •     disdainful, since he considers their sin to be unforgivable.

  • 9. Dante was
    •     a Black Guelf
    •     n/a
    •     a Ghibelline.
    •     a White Guelf

  • 10. This meant that he favored
    •     a republican form of government, like that later adopted by Florence.
    •     the Holy Roman Emperor, to stop factionalist politics in Italy.
    •     n/a
    •     the Pope, to bring renewed Christian faith to Italy.

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