4.14.F - Test: Dante's Inferno
In The Inferno, Canto 4, which types of souls dwell in Limbo?
Virtuous Pagans, People who believed in God but before Christ came, Unbaptized Infants
In The Inferno, Canto 4, based on your knowledge of archetypal imagery, describing Limbo as a "blind world" indicates that it is filled with souls who...
lack knowledge of the Truth
In The Inferno, how many circle of Hell exist?
9
What is the difference between a tragedy and comedy in classical literature?
A comedy ends happily and a tragedy ends poorly
In The Inferno, Canto 9, who is able to open the gates of Dis?
A messenger from God
From The Divine Comedy, who is Dante's guide through Paradise?
Beatrice
Who was the girl that Dante met only twice, but had a huge impact on his life?
Beatrice
In The Inferno, Canto 2, which three heavenly ladies does Dante learn are looking out for him?
Beatrice, Mary, Lucy
In The Inferno, Canto 2, what vice does Virgil accuse Dante of displaying as they are in the entrance of Hell?
Cowardice
In The Inferno, Canto 34, what is the symbolic significance of the last word: stars?
Dante is moving upward toward God
In The Inferno, Canto 9, what is the name of the city that encompasses Circles 6-9 and holds Satan.
Dis
Seen in the Inferno, the Italian word "contrapasso" means...
Divine Punishment
In The Inferno, Canto 24, what, according to Virgil, is necessary to make a lasting mark on the world?
Fame
Which town was Dante born and raised in?
Florence
According to The Inferno, Canto 26, why did Ulysses (Odysseus) not return home after leaving Circe's island?
He did not want to stop traveling
In The Inferno, Canto 24, Vanni Fucci gives Dante a prediction about Florence. Why did Fucci reveal this prophecy to Dante?
He wants to cause Dante a small amount of the suffering he feels
In The Inferno, Canto 9, what would happen to Dante if he looked at Medusa's head?
He would be turned to stone
Why was Dante exiled from his hometown?
His political party fell out of power
Dante put a lot of thought into the language he wrote his poems in, so he decided to write The Divine Comedy in...
Italian dialects
In The Inferno, Canto 3, according to the inscription above the door to the Inferno, which attribute of God moved Him to create this place?
Justice
In The Inferno, Canto 34, how is Satan trapped?
Locked in ice
Match the literary device on the left with the best example on the right.
Look at luoa
In The Inferno, Canto 26, what sins sent Odysseus or Ulysses, to the eighth circle of hell?
Manipulating his men to their death, Creating the Trojan Horse
In The Inferno, Canto 1, we can see Dante the Pilgrim as an allegorical representation for...
Mankind
In The Inferno, Canto 9, Virgil covers Dante's eyes when the head of Medusa appears. What classical work might this be a reference to?
Odysseus had his men tie him to the mast to resist the sirens
The Divine Comedy is a long poem that contains three books, which are called:
Paradisio, Purgatorio, Inferno
In The Inferno, Canto 24, which mythical creature is Vanni Fucci compared to?
Pheonix
In The Inferno, Canto 4, Dante sees Plato and Aristotle, who are known for being...
Philosophers
In The Inferno, Canto 4, which type of soul in Limbo does Dante describe as men with honor?
Poets
In The Inferno, Canto 9, if Virgil is an allegory to represent Human Reason, what might this incident at the gate of Dis reveal?
Reason can not take you far without faith
In The Inferno, Canto 26, which word best described the tone in Dante's address to Florence: "Take joy, O Florence, for you are so great / your wings beat over land and sea, / your fame resounds through Hell!"
Sarcastic
In The Inferno, Canto 36, Dante compares Satan's wings to sails on a ship. Why is this ironic?
Satan can never move anywhere
In The Inferno, Canto 34, which literary device is being used in these lines to describe Satan's wings? "They had no feathers but looked just like a bat's, / And he kept flapping these wings up and down"
Simile
In The Inferno, Canto 4, what does Dante learn can rescue a soul from Limbo?
The divine work of Christ
At the beginning of The Inferno, Canto 1, Dante is lost in a dark wood. This dark wood is most likely an allegory for...
The experience of living apart from God's laws
In The Inferno, Canto 9, who flies over the gates holding the head of Medusa?
The furies
In The Inferno, Canto 34, how was the mountain of Purgatory created?
The land Satan displaced when he fell from Heaven
Which of the following areas did Dante utilize the number three in his poem?
The number of cantos in each poem, The number of rhymed lines, The number of lines in a stanza
In The Inferno, Canto 34, what does Satan have in his three mouths?
Three sinners
In The Inferno, Canto 1, what reason does Dante give for sharing his experience, even though it was terrifying?
To share the good he found