Structure and subdivisions

Question 1

Vestibule of Hell

Answer 1

• The indifferent
• Waiting room for those who didn’t choose a side in life.
• Souls that are not accepted by heaven or hell
• Punishment: Chase a banner that never stops moving and stung by hornets
• symbolizes their lack of purpose in their existence

Question 2

Upper hell

Answer 2

sins of incontinence (lust, gluttony, greed, wastefulness, wrath and sloth).

Question 3

City of Dis

Answer 3

6th Circle entrance to the lower levels of hell.

Question 4

Lower Hell

Answer 4

• violence (against self, property, and God)
• simple fraud (in Malebolge, ten rings)
• complex fraud (simple fraud + violence. Traitors. It is the 9th and last circle of Hell, called Cocytus—a lake of ice)