Quiz 7 Flashcards
What is presumably reflected in the structure of Dante’s poem?
gods plan
In terms of “A Simplified Theology of Dante’s Inferno” what should a moral person
a. recognize
b. want to do
a. sin
b. otherwise
Are Dantes sinners punished for or by their sins?
by their sins
In Dantes Inferno what are the three forms of perverse love?
- Incontinence
- Violence
- Fraud
What are Dantes dates?
1265-1321
What are the three parts of books of the Commedia?
- Inferno
- Purgatorio
- Paradiso
The structure and style of the Commedia are based on the number three, which “highlights” what principle of church doctrine?
Trinitarian Theology
Where does suffering supposedly have purpose?
Purgatory
What does he see, “And only then did terror start subsiding”?
The Sun
Which of these three beasts “forced me back to where the sun is mute?
The she wolf
What emotion prompted Beatrice to help Dante?
Love
What are the last seven words Dante reads above the Gate of Hell
Abandon every hope, All you who enter
Dante understands that the cowardly are hateful both to God and to….?
His enemies
T/F:The sinners are eager for the river crossing
True
Whom does Dante recognize as “the master sage of” all pilosophers?
Aristotle
In this general region of Hell, what is it that “appetite” makes a slave?
Those who make reason
Because of what strong sentiment does Dante faint?
pity
What city is it “so plauged with strife”
Florence
In whom is avarice “most likely to prevail”?
Priests, popes, and cardinals
T/F:Virgil explains that Dame Fortune is blind and forsees nothing while turning her wheel
False
T/F:Heavens messenger breaks open the gate of Dis with Herculean power
False
What did Epicurus (and other in that area of hell) believe about the soul?
The soul dies when the body dies
What happened to Guido, a fellow poet, while Dante was part of the goverment?
he was exiled and died
As Virgil explains the three general types (levels) of sins, which belongs exclusively to man?
fraud
