Inferno Questions Flashcards
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Who is in Circle 1?
A
Virtuous Pagans
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Who is in Circle 2?
A
The Carnal/Lustful
4
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Who is in Circle 3?
A
The Gluttonous
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Who is in Circle 4?
A
Hoarders/Waster
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Who is in Circle 5?
A
Wrathful and Sullen
7
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Who is in Circle 6?
A
Heretics
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Who is in Circle 7?
A
The Violent
9
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Who is in Circle 8?
A
Simple Fraud
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Who is in Circle 9?
A
Complex Fraud
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Who is in the Vestibule of Hell?
A
Opportunists
12
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What is Circle 1 called?
A
Limbo
13
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What is the first river in Hell?
A
Acheron
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What is the second river in Hell?
A
Styx
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What is the third river in Hell?
A
Phlegethon
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Where is Circle 5/what is it called?
A
Styx
17
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Three animals Dante meets in the Dark Woods
A
She-wolf, Lion, Leopard
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She-wolf of?
A
Incontinence
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Lion of?
A
Violence and ambition
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Leopard of?
A
Malice and Fraud
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Who is Dante’s guide?
A
Virgil
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Virgil is a symbol of?
A
Human Reason
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Who symbolizes Divine Love?
A
Beatrice
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What is the law of Dante’s Hell?
A
That of symbolic retribution
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Who is the ferryman for Acheron?
A
Charon
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What is the Opportunists' punishment?
Neither in not out of Hell, chasing a banner, chased by wasps/hornets, filthiness
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One main character in the Vestibule of Hell?
Celestine V
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Four main characters in Limbo?
Homer, Horace, Ovid, Lucan
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Who guards Circle 2?
Minos
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Important pair in Circle 2? (Lustful)
Francesca and Paolo
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Who guards Circle 3?
Cerberus
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One main character in Circle 3?
Ciacco the Hog
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Who guards Circle 4?
Plutus
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What are the Hoarders and Wasters doing?
Perpetually clashing against each other with weights on their backs
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What is the last station of Upper Hell?
Circle 5, Styx (Wrathful and Sullen)
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Who is the boatman of the Styx?
Phlegyas
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Who is the soul in the Wrathful that Dante flips out at?
Argenti
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What is the Capital of Hell?
Dis
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Which creatures are creatures of Ultimate Evil?
Rebellious Angels
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Who lets them into Lower Hell?
The Heavenly Messenger
41
Two main characters in Circle 6?
Farinata and Cavalcanti
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How are the Heretics punished?
Eternally burning tombs
43
Three divisions of Circle 7?
Violent against: Neighbors, Self, God/Art/Nature
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Who do they have to evade before entering Circle 7?
Minotaur
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Two main characters in Circle 7, ring 1?
Alexander the Great, Atilla
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Who patrols Circle 7, ring 1?
Centaurs
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One main character in Circle 7, ring 2?
Pier delle Vigne
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How are the Suicides represented?
As trees
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What three categories of sinners are in Circle 7, ring 3 only?
Blasphemers (Violence against God), Sodomites (Violence against Nature), and Usurers (Violence against Art)
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What landscape is in circle 7, ring 3?
Plains of burning sand and rain of fire
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How are the Blasphemers punished?
lying down on burning sands under the fire rain
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How are the Sodomites punished?
Running in circles on the burning sands under the fire rain
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How are the Usurers punished?
Huddled on the burning sands under the fire rain
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Where do all the rivers of Hell come from?
The Old Man of Crete
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Why is the Old Man of Crete an important symbol?
Left foot = iron, Holy roman Empire; Right foot = terra cotta, Catholic Church, bears more weight
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One main character in circle 7, ring 2?
Ser Brunetto Latino
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Who carries them down to Circle 8?
Geryon
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Who is the Monster of Fraud?
Geryon
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What are the divisions of the 8th Circle called?
Bolgia
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Bolgia 1
Panderers/Seducers
61
Bolgia 2
Flatterers
62
Bolgia 3
Simoniacs
63
Bolgia 4
Fortune Tellers Diviners
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Bolgia 5
Grafters
65
Bolgia 6
Hypocrites
66
Bolgia 7
Thieves
67
Bolgia 8
Evil Counselors
68
Bolgia 9
Sowers of Discord
69
Bolgia 10
Falsifiers
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Name a Panderer.
Caccianemico
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Name a Seducer
Jason
72
Name two Flatterers.
Alessio Interminelli and Thais
73
How are the Simoniacs punished?
Upside down in the flaming "baptistries"
74
Name one Simoniac.
Pope Nicholas III
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Name one Diviner, etc.
Tiresias!
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How are the Diviners & Co. punished?
Heads turned backwards, can't see where they're walking, crying, filthy
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Who guards the Grafters?
The weird demons
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Who do the demons attack?
Senator of Lucca
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Which bridge is broken?
the one across the 6th Bolgia
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Name two main characters in the 6th Bolgia.
Jovial Friars and Caiaphas
81
How are the thieves represented?
as reptiles
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Name two Evil Counselors
Ulysses and Diomede
83
Which sinners are trapped inside great flames?
Evil Counselors
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What are the three kinds of Discord-Sowers?
Religious, Political, Between Kinsmen
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Name Sowers of Religious Discord
Mahomet and Ali, Fra Dolcino
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Name Sowers of Political Discord
Pier de Medicina, Curio, Lamberti
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Name a Sower of Discord between Kinsmen
Bertrand de Born (has his head in his hand)
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What are the four classes of Falsifiers?
Alchemists (of Things), Evil Impersonators (of People), Counterfeiters (of Money), and False Witnesses (of Words)
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Who is Gianni Schicchi?
An Evil Impersonator
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Who's in the central pit of Malebolge?
the giants
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Who brings them down to the 9th circle?
Antaeus
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What are the four rounds of the 9th Circle?
Caina, Anentora, Ptolomea, Judecca
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What is the 9th Circle called?
Cocytus
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Circle 9 is what kind of fraud?
Complex Fraud
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The 9th Circle is made of what?
Ice
96
Sinners in Caina were treacherous to?
Kin
97
Sinners in Anentora were treacherous to?
Country
98
Sinners in Ptolomea were treacherous to?
Guests/Hosts
99
Sinners in Judecca were treacherous to?
Masters
100
Who is the last sinner in Hell?
Satan
101
Who are thre three sinners in Satan's mouths?
Judas, Brutus, Cassius
