Dante's Inferno Circles

Question 1

Circle 2

Answer 1

Sin: Lust

Punishment: Buffeted forever by a violent storm

Contrapasso: “the storm of love”

Question 2

Circle 3

Answer 2

Sin: Gluttony

Punishment: sit in excrement; filthy rain; tormented by cerberus

Contrapasso: Sitting in what they produced

Question 3

Circle 4

Answer 3

Sins: Hoarding & Squandering

Punishment: roll weights in semicircles

Contrapasso: Useless pursuits

Question 4

Circle 5, Sin 1

Answer 4

Sin: Anger, wrath

Punishment: fight and tear each other apart

Contrapasso: fight forever like they did on earth

Question 5

Circle 5, Sin 2

Answer 5

Sin: Sullenness

Punishment: Stuck in the slime of the styx

Contrapasso: Can’t express emotions; emotionless on earth

Question 6

Circle 6

Answer 6

Sin: Heresy

Punishment: trapped in burning coffins

Contrapasso: trapped by their own heresy

Question 7

Circle 7, Ring 1

Answer 7

Sin: Violence against neighbors

Punishment: boil in the Phlegethon, tormented by centaurs

Contrapasso: boil in the blood they spilt

Question 8

Circle 7, Ring 2

Answer 8

Sin: Violence against self

Punishment: stuck in twisted trees; run naked chased by dogs

Contrapasso: aren’t worthy to inhabit a body; dogs take everything away from them

Question 9

Circle 7, Ring 3, Zone 1

Answer 9

Sin: Blasphemy

Punishment: lie on the ground naked; fire rains down on them

Contrapasso: Facing up, looking to God

Question 10

Circle 7, Ring 3, Zone 2

Answer 10

Sin: Sodomy

Punishment: Walking around on burning sand

Contrapasso: fruitless activity; brings nothing to the world

Question 11

Circle 1

Answer 11

Limbo

Sin: Weren’t baptized

Punishment: can’t enter heaven or hell