quiz 8

Question 1

Geryon’s face was like the face of what?

Answer 1

An honest man

Question 2

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

Answer 2

His scorpion tail

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Flattery’s

Question 4

What was the most common form of sominy?

Answer 4

Selling of church offices

Question 5

Pope Nicholas III predicted Clément V Will sell out to the king of France. When did that happen?

Answer 5

1305

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Fortune tellers

Question 7

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

Answer 7

The Melabranche

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Dazzling guilded cloaks

Question 9

What happened to the thieves tongue that had been one piece and capable?

Answer 9

It was divided into a fork

Question 10

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

Answer 10

He is repentant

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Shia versus Sunni

Question 12

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

Answer 12

1312

Question 13

What is the perfect contrapasso?

Answer 13

Counter penalty

Question 14

For what sin has Griffolino of Arezzo been placed to the last bologia of the 10?

Answer 14

Alchemy

Question 15

For what fault of Dantes does Virgil say “less shame than yours would wash away”?

Answer 15

Telling lies

Question 16

Over what have they fought and killed each other, now “like Billy goats/ we’re butting at each other?

Answer 16

Politics and inheritance

Question 17

What did count Ugolino’s children say would make us suffer less?

Answer 17

If he would eat their flesh

Question 18

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

Answer 18

The wind was blowing

Question 19

According to Fra Albergio, what happens to a soul if a demon takes possession of the body?

Answer 19

It falls into a section of hell (the cistern)

Question 20

What seems at first, I far off windmill turning its huge sales?

Answer 20

Satan

Question 21

Which two sinners are in Satan’s two 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