Quiz 7 Flashcards
What is presumably reflected in the structure of Dante’s poem?
Divine order
In terms of a simplified Theology of Dante’s Inferno what should a moral person…
a. recognize…what sin is b. want to do….otherwise
Dante’s sinners are punished a) for or b) by their sins?
b) by
In Dante’s Inferno what are the three forms of perverse love?
a) incontinence b) violence c) Fraud
What are the three parts or books of the Commedia?
a) Hell b) Purgatory c) Heaven
The structure and style of the Commedia are based on the number three, which highlights what principle of church doctrine?
The Trinity
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 who enter here
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 philosophers?
Aristotle
In this general region of Hell, what is it that appetite makes a slave?
Reason
