english inferno - Dante

Question 1

9 levels of the Inferno

Answer 1

1. Limbo
2. Lust
3. Gluttony
4. Greed
5. Wrathful
6. Hereitics
7. Violence
8. Fraud
9. Betrayers

Question 2

What is the fourth level of hell

Answer 2

Greed

Question 3

What is the second level of hell

Answer 3

Lust

Question 4

What is the first level of hell

Answer 4

Limbo

Question 5

What is the third level of hell

Answer 5

gluttony

Question 6

what is the 5th level of hell

Answer 6

Wrathful

Question 7

What is the 6th level of hell

Answer 7

Hereitics

Question 8

What is the 7th level of hell

Answer 8

Violence

Question 9

8th level of hell

Answer 9

Fraud

Question 10

9th level of hell ( the worst of all)

Answer 10

Betrayers

Question 11

When does Dante go through a dark forest?

Answer 11

Canto 1

Question 12

What is the dark forest an allegory to?

Answer 12

a dark/low point in ones life and Sin

Question 13

What three creatures does Dante encounter?

Answer 13

Lion, Leopard, She-wolf

Question 14

When (which canto) does Dante meet the 3 animals

Answer 14

in canto 1

Question 15

What does the she-wolf represent?

Answer 15

greed

Question 16

what does the lion represent?

Answer 16

pride

Question 17

what does the leopard represent?

Answer 17

lust

Question 18

Who is Virgil

Answer 18

Virgil is an author who Dante looks up to. He is also Dantes guide through hell :D

Question 19

How are souls in limbo punished?

Answer 19

They have bugs crawling on them and eating them alive. They also chase around a banner with no purpose.

Question 20

What do the punishments in limbo represent?

Answer 20

Banner chasing: the souls here lead a useless life not making any decisions on weather to be good or bad. useless life = useless punishment

Bugs: the souls lived as if they were dead. So they have maggots, flys, wasps, and other bugs crawling on them like they would on a bead corpse.

Question 21

What level of hell is Dante in, in canto 3

Answer 21

Limbo Lvl. 1

Question 21

What level of hell is Dante in, in canto 5

Answer 21

Lust Lvl. 2

Question 21

Where is Dante in canto 1

Answer 21

a forest

Question 21

What level of hell is Dante in, in canto 34

Answer 21

Betrayal (level 9)

Question 22

Who is Charon?

Answer 22

A creature/man who takes souls on his boat to the other side. He doesn't take any living or good souls. We meet him in the 3rd canto.

Question 23

Who is Beatrice?

Answer 23

A girl Dante fell in love with after seeing her once around the age of 9. She died at age 24 and Dante can't get over her despite being married to someone else.

Question 24

What is the punishment in lust? what is the significance?

Answer 24

Souls in Lust are forever stuck in a tornado being thrown around without any control. This represents these souls' tendency to lose control of their emotions.

Question 25

Who does Dante learn about in level 2?

Answer 25

Francesca: A married woman who cheated on her husband, Giovanni, with his brother. She blames her actions on a book. Paolo: has an affair with his sister-in-law, Francesca, multiple times. Cleopatra: mistress to two men, Julius Cesar and Mark Antony. Helen: left her husband for another man. They set off the Trojan War. Lancelot: fell in love with King Arthur's wife, Guinevere.

Question 26

What does Francesca blame her actions on?

Answer 26

She blames her actions on a book she read claiming it made her feel things that resulted in her having an affair and falling in love with her brother-in-law, Paolo. [Lancelot's story]

Question 27

What did Lancelot do?

Answer 27

Lancelot was King Arthur's noblest Knight. He gave in to his lust, and fell in love with King Arthur's wife Queen Guinevere.

Question 28

Who is Helen?

Answer 28

Helen was a beautiful woman who left her husband for another man.The man with whom she ran off with was the prince of Troy, Paris. Her and Paris has combined actions set off the Trojan War.

Question 29

Who is Paolo

Answer 29

The younger brother of Giovanni has an affair with his sister-in-law, Francesca, multiple times. He ends up dead along side Francesca once is elder brother discovers their affair.

Question 30

What does "Abandon all hope you who enter here." mean in the story above the gates of hell?

Answer 30

This means that once you enter hell you won’t be shown any mercy and will pay for all that you have done. Your fate will depend on the hands of others who are much more powerful than you.

Question 31

How is the river in Canto 34 being made?

Answer 31

The river of hell is created by Dis’ (Satan’s) tears. As he cries to be released from hell his tears pile up.

Question 32

Where does Dante’s quest continue after leaving Hell?

Answer 32

Dante ventures off to Purgatory after leaving Hell.

Question 32

who is Minos?

Answer 32

A king who was kind and an overall great person when he was living. As a reward, he gets to judge every soul and decide where in hell they belong.

Question 32

Who is "Dis"?

Answer 32

Satan, Lucifer, etc. He is frozen in his own tears at the center of hell. Without him there would be no frozen water where all the betrayer's go.

Question 32

Who is Judas

Answer 32

In the Bible Judas betrays Jesus Christ.

Question 32

Brutus is who

Answer 32

Brutus is one of the two people who went against Julius Caesar behind his back and killed him. He is one of the three biggest betrayers in Hell according to Dante

Question 32

Cassius is who

Answer 32

Cassius is another one of the two people who went behind Julius Caesar's back to try and assassinate him. He along with Brutus and Judas are in Satan's mouths as this is the punishment for being one of the three biggest betrayers.