Part 21

Question 1

Three important ladies

Answer 1

Beatrice - love & compassion
Lucia - divine light
Rachel - meditation

Question 2

Inscription over gate

Answer 2

Abandon every hope, all you who enter

Question 3

First thing they find

Answer 3

River Acheron & Charon the boatman swatting away the indifferent. Dante feints

Question 4

1st circle

Answer 4

Limbo (“edge” in Italian)
7 walls & 7 gates
Holy pagans
Adam, Noah, & Adam are missing

Question 5

2nd circle

Answer 5

Lustful
Minos is judge
Constantly tossed in a whirlwind, so they can never touch

Question 6

3rd circle

Answer 6

Gluttonous
Wallow in mud like pigs, constant rain, snow, & hail
Cerberus presides over them

Question 7

4th circle

Answer 7

Hoarders and wasters

Question 8

5th circle

Answer 8

Wrathful and sullen

Question 9

6th circle

Answer 9

Heretics

Question 10

7th circle

Answer 10

Violent & bestial
3 subsections
against neighbors
Hot boiling blood, centaurs shoot the ones who try to escape
against self (suicide)
Turned into bushes w weak branches that bleed when they break, also harpies
against god (blasphemers)
Desert of burning sands, also old man of Crete

Question 11

8th circle

Answer 11

Fraudulent and malicious
10 Malebolge
Flatterers swim in crap
Sowers of discord near bottom

Question 12

9th circle

Answer 12

Traitors
Devil frozen flapping wings
Devil chews legs of Brutus and Cassius, head of Judas