Leo Inferno Quizzes Flashcards

2
Q

What is the 8th Circle called?

A

Malebolge

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3
Q

How many bolgia are there?

A

Ten

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4
Q

Who’s not in the 8th Circle? Panderers, Seducers, Grafters, Heretics?

A

Heretics (Hypocrites are, though)

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5
Q

Souls in circle 8 committed what kind of fraud?

A

Simple fraud

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6
Q

What’s worse, Seducers or Panderers?

A

Seducers

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7
Q

Who sold “ecclesiastical favors/offices?”

A

Simoniacs

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8
Q

Where will Nicholas, Boniface, and Clement end up?

A

Upside down in baptismal fonts with burning feet in circle 8, bolgia 3

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9
Q

Fortune Tellers are in the same bolgia as who?

A

Diviniers

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10
Q

What city does Dante take forever describing?

A

Mantua

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11
Q

Why does Virgil scold Dante?

A

For pitying the souls in Hell

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12
Q

Which sinners are stuck in pitch and guared by demons?

A

Grafters

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13
Q

Critics say Hell’s structure is like?

A

A cathedral

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14
Q

Why would dolphins leap around ships?

A

To warn them of impending doom

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15
Q

Who holds his head out to them?

A

Bertrand de Born

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16
Q

Who was Caiaphas?

A

the high priest of the Jews during the time of christ

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17
Q

Who’s in Bolgia 10?

A

Falsifiers

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18
Q

Thieves are in which Circle?

A

8th, Bolgia 7

19
Q

Dante’s language gets more and more what in the 8th circle?

A

disgusting

20
Q

How many circles of Hell are there?

21
Q

Which two characters are most closely related from that damn quiz?

A

Icarus and Daedalus

22
Q

How do the Poets get to the 8th circle?

A

Flying on Geryon

23
Q

Who do they first meet in circle 8?

24
Q

Which two groups of sinners run in opposite directions?

A

Panderers/Seducers

25
Q

T/F: Sinners in Nether Hell want to be remembered

A

false, they don’t

26
Which sinners exploited others through corruption of language? Panderers, Sowers of Discord, Flatterers, Simoniacs, or Judges?
Flatterers
27
Which Simon is related to the Simoniacs?
Simon Magus
28
How does Dante view the Simoniacs?
With abject anger
29
Selling a sacrament constitutes what?
Simony
30
Who is the reigning Pope in Rome in 1300?
Boniface
31
What does Farinata prophesize in Canto 10?
Dante's exile
32
Who is queen of the Underworld?
Prosperpine
33
Are Heretics in Upper or Lower Hell?
Upper Hell
34
What mythological creature is found in Circle 7?
minotaur
35
When the Minotaur appears, what does Dante do?
Run away
36
Who's in Circle 7, ring 2?
Suicides
37
Who is Dante's old teacher?
Brunetto Latini
38
Which of these men isn't in circle 7? Chiron, Alexander, Diomede, Farinata
Farinata
39
What political party is Dante?
Guelph
40
What year does the Inferno begin?
1300
41
How old is Dante at the beginning of the poem?
35
42
Who is the judge of Hell?
Minos