Dante, Inferno

Question 1

First three lines?

Answer 1

When I had journeyed half of hour life’s way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.

Question 2

Vestibule

Answer 2

Idleness in life, banner chasing, hornets, maggots

Question 3

Circle 1

Answer 3

Unbaptized, virtuous pagans, lacking the hope for sth greater than rational minds (reason) can conceive

Question 4

Circle 2

Answer 4

Lust, Francesca & Paolo, forever storm and wind

Question 5

Circle 3

Answer 5

Gluttony, putrid icy rain, stinky mud / slime

Ciacco

Question 6

Circle 4

Answer 6

Greed, horders & squanderers, pushing back and forth great weights with their chests at ea. other

Question 7

Circle 5

Answer 7

Anger, in the swamp like river of Styx, the angry fight ea other while the sullen lie gurgling beneath the water

Question 8

Circle 6

Answer 8

Heresy, Farinata, trapped in flaming tombs

Question 9

Circle 7 outer ring

Answer 9

Violence against people & property, river of boiling blood

Question 10

Circle 7 middle ring

Answer 10

Violence against self, including property
suicides - trees
profligates - chased & mauled by dogs

Question 11

Circle 7 inner ring

Answer 11

Violence against God - blasphemy
Violence against nature (child of God) - sodomites & usurers
residing in a desert of flaming sand with fiery flakes raining from the sky

Question 12

Circle 8

Answer 12

Fraud, Geryon

Question 13

Circle 8 Bolgia 1

Answer 13

Panderers and seducers march in separate lines in opposite directions, whipped by demons
Just as the panderers and seducers used the passions of others to drive them to do their bidding, they are themselves driven by demons to march for all eternity

Question 14

Circle 8 Bolgia 2

Answer 14

Flatterers also exploited other people, this time using language. They are steeped in human excrement, which represents the words they produced.

Question 15

Circle 8 Bolgia 3

Answer 15

Simony, placed head-first in holes in the rock (resembling baptismal fonts), with flames burning on the soles of their feet.
Pope Nicholas III, denounces two of his successors, Pope Boniface VIII and Pope Clement V

Question 16

Circle 8 Bolgia 4

Answer 16

Sorcerers, astrologers, and false prophets here have their heads twisted around on their bodies backward

Question 17

Circle 8 Bolgia 5

Answer 17

Corrupt politicians (barrators) are immersed in a lake of boiling pitch, which represents the sticky fingers and dark secrets of their corrupt deals.
the Malebranche ("Evil Claws"), who provide some savage and satirical black comedy

Question 18

Circle 8 Bolgia 6

Answer 18

Hypocrites listlessly walking along wearing gilded lead cloaks, which represent the falsity behind the surface appearance of their actions – falsity that weighs them down and makes spiritual progress impossible for them.

Question 19

Circle 8 Bolgia 7

Answer 19

The thieves are pursued and bitten by snakes and lizards.
Just as they stole other people’s substance in life, their very identity becomes subject to theft here, and the snake bites make them undergo various transformations.

Question 20

Circle 8 Bolgia 8

Answer 20

Fraudulent advisers or evil counsellors, who are concealed within individual flames.
Ulysses and Diomedes are condemned here for the deception of the Trojan Horse.

Question 21

Circle 8 Bolgia 9

Answer 21

a sword-wielding demon hacks at the Sowers of Discord, dividing parts of their bodies as in life they divided others.

Question 22

Circle 8 Bolgia 10

Answer 22

alchemists, counterfeiters, perjurers, and impostors – who are a “disease” on society – are themselves afflicted with different types of diseases.

Question 23

Circle 9 - Treachery

Answer 23

giants, who perhaps symbolize pride and other spiritual flaws lying behind acts of treachery.

Question 24

Circle 9 Round 1

Answer 24

Caïna, after Cain, who killed his brother.

Traitors to kindred are here immersed in the ice up to their faces

Question 25

Circle 9 Round 2

Answer 25

Antenora, after Antenor of Troy, who according to medieval tradition, betrayed his city to the Greeks.
Traitors to political entities, such as parties, cities, or countries

Question 26

Circle 9 Round 3

Answer 26

Ptolomaea, probably after Ptolemy, son of Abubus, who invited Simon Maccabaeus and his sons to a banquet and then killed them.
Traitors to their guests are punished here, lying supine in the ice, which covers them, except for their faces.

Question 27

Circle 9 Round 4

Answer 27

Judecca, after Judas Iscariot, Biblical betrayer of Christ.
Here are the traitors to their lords and benefactors. All of the sinners punished within are completely encapsulated in ice, distorted in all conceivable positions.

Question 28

Circle 9 Center

Answer 28

Satan, condemned for committing the ultimate sin (personal treachery against God)
He is a giant, terrifying beast with three faces, one red, one black, and one a pale yellow, waist deep in ice, weeping tears from his six eyes, and beating his six wings as if trying to escape, although the icy wind that emanates only further ensures his imprisonment.