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2
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Who is in Circle 1?

A

Virtuous Pagans

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3
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Who is in Circle 2?

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The Carnal/Lustful

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4
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Who is in Circle 3?

A

The Gluttonous

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5
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Who is in Circle 4?

A

Hoarders/Waster

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6
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Who is in Circle 5?

A

Wrathful and Sullen

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7
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Who is in Circle 6?

A

Heretics

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8
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Who is in Circle 7?

A

The Violent

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9
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Who is in Circle 8?

A

Simple Fraud

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10
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Who is in Circle 9?

A

Complex Fraud

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11
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Who is in the Vestibule of Hell?

A

Opportunists

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12
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What is Circle 1 called?

A

Limbo

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13
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What is the first river in Hell?

A

Acheron

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14
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What is the second river in Hell?

A

Styx

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15
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What is the third river in Hell?

A

Phlegethon

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16
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Where is Circle 5/what is it called?

A

Styx

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17
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Three animals Dante meets in the Dark Woods

A

She-wolf, Lion, Leopard

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18
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She-wolf of?

A

Incontinence

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19
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Lion of?

A

Violence and ambition

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20
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Leopard of?

A

Malice and Fraud

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21
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Who is Dante’s guide?

A

Virgil

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22
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Virgil is a symbol of?

A

Human Reason

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23
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Who symbolizes Divine Love?

A

Beatrice

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24
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What is the law of Dante’s Hell?

A

That of symbolic retribution

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25
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Who is the ferryman for Acheron?

A

Charon

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26
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What is the Opportunists’ punishment?

A

Neither in not out of Hell, chasing a banner, chased by wasps/hornets, filthiness

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27
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One main character in the Vestibule of Hell?

A

Celestine V

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28
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Four main characters in Limbo?

A

Homer, Horace, Ovid, Lucan

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29
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Who guards Circle 2?

A

Minos

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30
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Important pair in Circle 2? (Lustful)

A

Francesca and Paolo

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31
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Who guards Circle 3?

A

Cerberus

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32
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One main character in Circle 3?

A

Ciacco the Hog

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33
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Who guards Circle 4?

A

Plutus

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34
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What are the Hoarders and Wasters doing?

A

Perpetually clashing against each other with weights on their backs

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35
Q

What is the last station of Upper Hell?

A

Circle 5, Styx (Wrathful and Sullen)

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36
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Who is the boatman of the Styx?

A

Phlegyas

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37
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Who is the soul in the Wrathful that Dante flips out at?

A

Argenti

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38
Q

What is the Capital of Hell?

A

Dis

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39
Q

Which creatures are creatures of Ultimate Evil?

A

Rebellious Angels

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40
Q

Who lets them into Lower Hell?

A

The Heavenly Messenger

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41
Q

Two main characters in Circle 6?

A

Farinata and Cavalcanti

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42
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How are the Heretics punished?

A

Eternally burning tombs

43
Q

Three divisions of Circle 7?

A

Violent against: Neighbors, Self, God/Art/Nature

44
Q

Who do they have to evade before entering Circle 7?

A

Minotaur

45
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Two main characters in Circle 7, ring 1?

A

Alexander the Great, Atilla

46
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Who patrols Circle 7, ring 1?

A

Centaurs

47
Q

One main character in Circle 7, ring 2?

A

Pier delle Vigne

48
Q

How are the Suicides represented?

A

As trees

49
Q

What three categories of sinners are in Circle 7, ring 3 only?

A

Blasphemers (Violence against God), Sodomites (Violence against Nature), and Usurers (Violence against Art)

50
Q

What landscape is in circle 7, ring 3?

A

Plains of burning sand and rain of fire

51
Q

How are the Blasphemers punished?

A

lying down on burning sands under the fire rain

52
Q

How are the Sodomites punished?

A

Running in circles on the burning sands under the fire rain

53
Q

How are the Usurers punished?

A

Huddled on the burning sands under the fire rain

54
Q

Where do all the rivers of Hell come from?

A

The Old Man of Crete

55
Q

Why is the Old Man of Crete an important symbol?

A

Left foot = iron, Holy roman Empire; Right foot = terra cotta, Catholic Church, bears more weight

56
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One main character in circle 7, ring 2?

A

Ser Brunetto Latino

57
Q

Who carries them down to Circle 8?

A

Geryon

58
Q

Who is the Monster of Fraud?

A

Geryon

59
Q

What are the divisions of the 8th Circle called?

A

Bolgia

60
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Bolgia 1

A

Panderers/Seducers

61
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Bolgia 2

A

Flatterers

62
Q

Bolgia 3

A

Simoniacs

63
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Bolgia 4

A

Fortune Tellers Diviners

64
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Bolgia 5

A

Grafters

65
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Bolgia 6

A

Hypocrites

66
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Bolgia 7

A

Thieves

67
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Bolgia 8

A

Evil Counselors

68
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Bolgia 9

A

Sowers of Discord

69
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Bolgia 10

A

Falsifiers

70
Q

Name a Panderer.

A

Caccianemico

71
Q

Name a Seducer

A

Jason

72
Q

Name two Flatterers.

A

Alessio Interminelli and Thais

73
Q

How are the Simoniacs punished?

A

Upside down in the flaming “baptistries”

74
Q

Name one Simoniac.

A

Pope Nicholas III

75
Q

Name one Diviner, etc.

A

Tiresias!

76
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How are the Diviners & Co. punished?

A

Heads turned backwards, can’t see where they’re walking, crying, filthy

77
Q

Who guards the Grafters?

A

The weird demons

78
Q

Who do the demons attack?

A

Senator of Lucca

79
Q

Which bridge is broken?

A

the one across the 6th Bolgia

80
Q

Name two main characters in the 6th Bolgia.

A

Jovial Friars and Caiaphas

81
Q

How are the thieves represented?

A

as reptiles

82
Q

Name two Evil Counselors

A

Ulysses and Diomede

83
Q

Which sinners are trapped inside great flames?

A

Evil Counselors

84
Q

What are the three kinds of Discord-Sowers?

A

Religious, Political, Between Kinsmen

85
Q

Name Sowers of Religious Discord

A

Mahomet and Ali, Fra Dolcino

86
Q

Name Sowers of Political Discord

A

Pier de Medicina, Curio, Lamberti

87
Q

Name a Sower of Discord between Kinsmen

A

Bertrand de Born (has his head in his hand)

88
Q

What are the four classes of Falsifiers?

A

Alchemists (of Things), Evil Impersonators (of People), Counterfeiters (of Money), and False Witnesses (of Words)

89
Q

Who is Gianni Schicchi?

A

An Evil Impersonator

90
Q

Who’s in the central pit of Malebolge?

A

the giants

91
Q

Who brings them down to the 9th circle?

A

Antaeus

92
Q

What are the four rounds of the 9th Circle?

A

Caina, Anentora, Ptolomea, Judecca

93
Q

What is the 9th Circle called?

A

Cocytus

94
Q

Circle 9 is what kind of fraud?

A

Complex Fraud

95
Q

The 9th Circle is made of what?

A

Ice

96
Q

Sinners in Caina were treacherous to?

A

Kin

97
Q

Sinners in Anentora were treacherous to?

A

Country

98
Q

Sinners in Ptolomea were treacherous to?

A

Guests/Hosts

99
Q

Sinners in Judecca were treacherous to?

A

Masters

100
Q

Who is the last sinner in Hell?

A

Satan

101
Q

Who are thre three sinners in Satan’s mouths?

A

Judas, Brutus, Cassius

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