Divine Comedy-I: Inferno Quizzes

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.