Dante's Inferno- Circles

Question 0

Circle 2

Answer 0

Lustful

• contorted and blown about by violent and endless wind
• Francesca and Paolo
• Canto 5

Question 1

Circle 1

Answer 1

Limbo

• wander around in grief
• Virgil, Homer, Ovid, Lucan, Horace
• Canto 4

Question 2

Circle 3

Answer 2

Gluttony

• bombarded with rain, hail, and black snow
• Ciacco
• Canto 6

Question 3

Circle 4

Answer 3

Avaricious and Prodigal(greed)

• forced to push boulders
• Plutus
• Canto 7

Question 4

Circle 5

Answer 4

Wrathful (sullen,lazy)

• engaged in eternal combat with one another on surface of River Styx, where bodies of the sullen are at the bottom
• Filippo Argenti
• Canto 7-9

Question 5

Circle 6

Answer 5

Heretics

• locked in burning stone coffins
• Farinata, Calvante de’ Cavalcanti
• Canto 10-11

Question 6

Circle 7- 1st ring

Answer 6

Violence against ones neighbors

• forced to swim in boiling stream of blood
• Guy de Montfort, Atilla, Pyrrhus, Sextus
• Canto 12

Question 7

Circle 7- 2nd ring

Answer 7

Violence against oneself

• are trees ripped apart by Harpies
• Pier Della Vigna, Polydorus
• Canto 13

Question 8

Circle 7- 3rd ring

Answer 8

Violence against God

• condemned to a desert of blazing hot sand with a constant rain of fire
• Brunetto Latini, Priscian, Francesco d’ Accorso, Bishop Andrea dei Mozzi
• Canto 14-17

Question 9

Circle 8- 1st pouch

Answer 9

Panderers and Seducers

• march in line naked while being whipped by horned demons
• Venedico Caccianemico, Jason of Argonauts
• Canto 18

Question 10

Circle 8- 2nd pouch

Answer 10

Flatterers

• immersed in human excrement
• Alessio Interminei of Lucca
• Canto 18

Question 11

Circle 8- 3rd Pouch

Answer 11

Simonists

• placed in hole head first with their legs exposed and burned
• Pope Nicholas 3
• Canto 19

Question 12

Circle 8- 4th Pouch

Answer 12

Soothsayers

• contorted until their heads are backwards
• Amphiaraus, Tiresias, Aruns, Manto, Calchas, Michael Scot, Guido Bonatti, Asdente
• Canto 20

Question 13

Circle 8- 5th Pouch

Answer 13

Grafters

• immersed in pool of boiling pitch
• Fra Gomita

Question 14

Circle 8- 6th Pouch

Answer 14

Hypocrites

• forced to wear cloaks of lead
• Fra Catalono, Caiaphus

Question 15

Circle 8- 7th Pouch

Answer 15

Theives

• chased and bitten by reptiles, interconversion with them
• Vanni Fucci, Caccus, Agnello

Question 16

Circle 8- 8th Pouch

Answer 16

False Councelors

• souls burned, wrapped in individual columns of flame
• Ullysses, Diomedes, Guido

Question 17

Circle 8- 9th Pouch

Answer 17

Sorcerers of Discord

• split from chin to groin by sword
• Mohammed, Pier da Medicina, Curio, Mosca

Question 18

Circle 8- 10th Pouch

Answer 18

Counterfeiters/Falsifiers

• suffer from various diseases(dropsy)
• Griffolino, Capocchio, Gianni Schicchi, Myrrha

Question 19

Giant’s Well

Answer 19

Challenged God

• giants chained in the ground
• Nimrod, Anteaus

Question 20

Circle 9- 1st ring

Answer 20

Caina-Traitors of Kin

• lodged in blocks of ice
• Bisnezio brothers, Camiscione dei Pazzi

Question 21

Circle 9- 2nd ring

Answer 21

Antenora- Traitors of Homeland

• lodged deeper in ice blocks
• Bocca, Buoso da Duera, Becheria, Count Ugolino, Archbishop Ruggieri

Question 22

Circle 9- 3rd ring

Answer 22

Ptolomea- Traitors against their guest

• lay flat on ice(may still be alive)
• Fra Albergo

Question 23

Circle 9- 4th ring

Answer 23

Judecca- Traitors against their benefactors

• submerged completely in ice, chewed by Lucifer
• Judas, Brutus, Cassius