Quiz 8

Question 1

Greyon’s face was like the face of what?

Answer 1

an honest man

Question 2

From what does Virgil, the symbol of reason, protect Dante as they ride on Geryons shoulders?

Answer 2

the scorpions tail

Question 3

By what does Alessio Interminei say “I am stuck down here” in human excrement?

Answer 3

flatteries

Question 4

What was the “most common form of simony?

Answer 4

Selling of church offices

Question 5

Pope Nicholas III predicts Clement V will sell out to the king of France. When did that happen?

Answer 5

1305

Question 6

Who does Dante say, “they never saw what was ahead of them”?

Answer 6

Soothe sayers/ fortune tellers

Question 7

To whom does Dante refer, “now they meant to get us”?

Answer 7

Malebranche

Question 8

What is on the outside of the monkish cloaks worn by the hypocrites?

Answer 8

dazzling gilded cloaks

Question 9

What happens to the theif’s “tongue, that had been one piece and capable”?

Answer 9

it divides into a fork

Question 10

As Guido says, “one cannot be absolved” of sin by a priest “unless” what?

Answer 10

rings are taken from fallen romans

Question 11

What schism was led by Ali, nephew and son-in-law of Muhammad?

Answer 11

divided Islam into sunni and shi’a

Question 12

What forward date of composition is indicated be the story of Messer Guido and Angiolello?

Answer 12

1312

Question 13

What is a “the perfect contrapasso”?

Answer 13

sinner must committ sin for all of eternity

Question 14

For what sin has Griffolino or Arezzo been placed “to the last bolgia of the ten”?

Answer 14

the practice of alchemy

Question 15

For what “fault” of Dante’s does Virgil say, “Less shame than yours would wash away”?

Answer 15

being a falsifier and telling lies

Question 16

Over what had they fought and killed each other, who now “like billy-goata were butting at eachother”?

Answer 16

politics and inheritence

Question 17

What did Count Ugolino’s children say “would makes us suffer less”?

Answer 17

if he would feed on their flesh

Question 18

As they enter the third subdivision of Cocytus, Tolomea, what else, besides the cold does Dante now notice about the weather?

Answer 18

the wind

Question 19

According to Fra Alberigo, what happens to a soul if “a demon takes possesion of the body”?

Answer 19

it falls into cistern

Question 20

What seems as at first “a far-off windmill turning its huge sails”?

Answer 20

satan in the fog

Question 21

Which two sinners are in Satan’s other mouths?

Answer 21

1. Brutus

2. Cassius

Question 22

By pulling on what does virgil proceed?

Answer 22

satan’s fur

Question 23

On what hemisphere do they now stand?

Answer 23

Southern hemisphere