Dante Inferno

Question 1

What are the names of the two major political parties in Italy during Dantes lifetime

Answer 1

Guelphs and Chibellines

Question 2

Who sent Donte into exile?

Answer 2

Pope Boniface VIII

Question 3

How many circles are in Dantes hell?

Answer 3

9

Question 4

Dante supported the

Answer 4

White Guelphs

Question 5

Encanto one, Dante revealed his age to be

Answer 5

35 years old

Question 6

Where is Virgil from

Answer 6

Lombardy

Question 7

Contrapasso means

Answer 7

Punishment fits the crime

Question 8

Virgil famously wrote

Answer 8

The Aneid

Question 9

The divine comedy has —— cantos in it

Answer 9

100

Question 10

In Canto one, who is the greyhound

Answer 10

Italian political leader

Question 11

In Canto one, who is the she wolf?

Answer 11

An icon

Question 12

I’m Canto two, Dante is told three women are cheering for him: Mary, —— and Beatrice

Answer 12

St. Lucia

Question 13

The ninth circle of hell house for sections, the worst of which is

Answer 13

Judecca

Question 14

Which of the following words means to hoard one’s wealth excessively?

Answer 14

Avarice

Question 15

All the circles of hell

Answer 15

Neutrals: Incontinence
Limbo, lustful, gluttonous, avarice and prodigal, wrathful and sullen

City of Dis: Violence
Heretics, murder, suicide, blasphemy/ sodomites/ Usury

Simple fraud

Seducers/panders, flatters, simoniacs, Fortunetellers, grafters, hypocrites, thieves, evil counselors, schismatics, flasifers

Pit of Giants: treacherous fraud

Caina, Antenora, Ptolomea, Judecca

Lucifer