Divine Comedy: Paradiso Quizzes

Divine Comedy: Paradiso Quiz 1

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1 Who is the first soul Dante interacts with in Paradise?

Cacciaguida

Ulysses

Piccarda

Mary
2 What does Dante invoke in order to begin the poem?

Apollo

Beatrice

The muses and Apollo

The muse
3 The lights in heaven often move in what way?

They stand impossibly still

They move in "U"s

They zig-zag

They wheel
4 What is Dante's first question to Beatrice about?

Beatrice's love

The moon's shape

The moon's dark spots

Beatrice's glowing body
5 Why are Piccarda and Constance on the moon?

Their wills were weak

They did not become nuns

They broke their vows

They were idle
6 What do Piccarda and Constance sing together?

Ave Verum Corpus

Ave Maria

Silent Night

Regina Caeli
7 Beatrice is meant to correct what?

Dante's habits

Dante's intellect

Dante's will

Dante's foot
8 Beatrice calls what God's "greatest gift"?

Christ

The church

Bodies

Free will
9 How do Dante and Beatrice move between spheres?

Walking

A ship

Swift Flight

Mountain paths
10 What sense fails Dante repeatedly?

Sight

Touch

Taste

Sound
11 Justinian was the leader of which empire?

The British

The Roman

The Holy Roman

The Greek
12 In what languages does Justinian sing?

Hebrew and Aramaic

Latin and Italian

Latin and Hebrew

Italian and Greek
13 The souls in heaven can read what?

Minds

The news

Greek

Scripture
14 What occurs to Beatrice on Venus?

She appears more beautiful

She weeps

She faints

She is castigated by Charles Martel
15 What does Dante ask Charles Martel?

What is hope?

What was he meant to be?

Why siblings are different

Why he died
16 Where is Rahab the prostitute placed?

In Paradise

In the Inferno

Outside of time

In Purgatory
17 Dante figures his book as what?

A wild animal

An exercise machine

Food

A beautiful woman
18 To which order of monks did Thomas Aquinas belong?

The Jesuits

The Protestants

The Dominican

The Franciscan
19 To which order of monks did Bonaventure belong?

The Augustinians

The Dominican

The Jesuits

The Franciscan
20 Where are Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure placed in heaven?

The sun

Mars

The moon

Mercury
21 According to Aquinas, who did Saint Francis marry?

Poverty

Christ

Mary

The Church
22 Dante praises which of the following?

Being without doubts

Being without a body

Doubt

Dancing
23 Human sin blocked them from what, according to Beatrice?

Eternal Wealth

God's Storehouse

Eternal Beauty

God's touch
24 What, according to Beatrice, causes the will to consent to violence?

Fear

Money

Love

Temptation
25 Dante compares himself to a lamb between two what?

Shepherds

Wolves

Lions

Women

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