Quiz 7

Question 1

What is presumably reflected in the structure of Dante’s poem?

Answer 1

gods plan

Question 2

In terms of “A Simplified Theology of Dante’s Inferno” what should a moral person

a. recognize
b. want to do

Answer 2

a. sin

b. otherwise

Question 3

Are Dantes sinners punished for or by their sins?

Answer 3

by their sins

Question 4

In Dantes Inferno what are the three forms of perverse love?

Answer 4

1. Incontinence
2. Violence
3. Fraud

Question 5

What are Dantes dates?

Answer 5

1265-1321

Question 6

What are the three parts of books of the Commedia?

Answer 6

1. Inferno
2. Purgatorio
3. Paradiso

Question 7

The structure and style of the Commedia are based on the number three, which “highlights” what principle of church doctrine?

Answer 7

Trinitarian Theology

Question 8

Where does suffering supposedly have purpose?

Answer 8

Purgatory

Question 9

What does he see, “And only then did terror start subsiding”?

Answer 9

The Sun

Question 10

Which of these three beasts “forced me back to where the sun is mute?

Answer 10

The she wolf

Question 11

What emotion prompted Beatrice to help Dante?

Answer 11

Love

Question 12

What are the last seven words Dante reads above the Gate of Hell

Answer 12

Abandon every hope, All you who enter

Question 13

Dante understands that the cowardly are hateful both to God and to….?

Answer 13

His enemies

Question 14

T/F:The sinners are eager for the river crossing

Answer 14

True

Question 15

Whom does Dante recognize as “the master sage of” all pilosophers?

Answer 15

Aristotle

Question 16

In this general region of Hell, what is it that “appetite” makes a slave?

Answer 16

Those who make reason

Question 17

Because of what strong sentiment does Dante faint?

Answer 17

pity

Question 18

What city is it “so plauged with strife”

Answer 18

Florence

Question 19

In whom is avarice “most likely to prevail”?

Answer 19

Priests, popes, and cardinals

Question 20

T/F:Virgil explains that Dame Fortune is blind and forsees nothing while turning her wheel

Answer 20

False

Question 21

T/F:Heavens messenger breaks open the gate of Dis with Herculean power

Answer 21

False

Question 22

What did Epicurus (and other in that area of hell) believe about the soul?

Answer 22

The soul dies when the body dies

Question 23

What happened to Guido, a fellow poet, while Dante was part of the goverment?

Answer 23

he was exiled and died

Question 24

As Virgil explains the three general types (levels) of sins, which belongs exclusively to man?

Answer 24

fraud

Question 25

In medieval thought, whatever humans make is art. What then is the relationship of our art to God?

Answer 25

God’s Grandchild

Question 26

Whom does Rusticucci blame for his sodomy?

Answer 26

his wife