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
Because of what strong sentiment does Dante faint?
Pity
What city is it “so plagued 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 foresees nothing while turning her wheel?
False
T/F: Heaven’s messenger breaks open the gate of Dis with Herculean power
False
What did Epicurus (and others in that area of Hell) believe about the soul?
It died when the body died
What happened to Guido, a fellow poet, while Dante was part of the government?
Exiled and died
As Virgil explains the three general types (levels) of sins, which belongs exclusively to man?
Fraud
In medieval thought, whatever humans make is art. What then is the relationship of our art to God?
His grandchild
Whom does Rusticucci blame for his sodomy?
His Wife
