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The Inferno Test Review Flashcards

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Canto 5

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  • The Carnal (lustful)
  • Sin: Related to physical indulgence, especially sexual gratification.
  • Punishment: The spirits are whirled and swept by an unceasing storm. The spirit’s lovers are in the wind but they can never reach each other.
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Canto 6

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  • The gluttons
  • Sin: Excessive eating and drinking.
    Punishment: The spirits get rained on by cold sewage while Cerberus attacks them.
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Canto 7

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  • The hoarders and Wasters
  • Sin: Being irresponsable with money or material goods.
  • Punishment: These spirits must push rocks against each other. The spirits also yell at each other while the rocks are being pushed.
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Canto 7

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  • The Wrathful
  • Sin: Expressed anger by being violent.
  • Punishment: The spirits ruthlessly attack each other.
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Canto 7

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  • The Sullen
  • Sin: Kept anger in and didn’t express it.
  • Punishment: The spirits go below the surface of the muddy swamp and gurgle and choke on the mud.
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Canto 12

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  • The Violent Against Neighbors
  • Sin: Violence against others, specifically murderers and war generals
  • Punishment: Those who spilled another’s blood now must bathe in it for eternity and get pelted by the arrows of the centaurs.
  • The more violent you were, the deeper submerged in the blood you are.
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Canto 13

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  • The Violent Against Themselves
  • Sin: Suicide
  • Punishment: The spirits are turned into trees and the harpies pull their leaves off.
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Canto 33

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  • The Treacherous to Guests and Hosts/Hospitality
  • Sin: Betrayal/ treachery
  • Punishment: Frozen in the lake.
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Canto 34

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  • The Treacherous to Their Masters
  • Sin: Betrayed masters.
  • Punishment: less sinful - frozen in ice. More sinful - eaten by satan.
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Dante

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  • The protagonist of Inferno
  • Poet
  • Lost his way spiritually
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River of Blood

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A river of boiling blood where violent people (murders, war generals, etc.) are forced to bathe in.
Canto 12

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Virgil

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  • Dante’s guide through the depths of hell
  • Famous Roman poet
  • Not a Christian
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Alexander the Great

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  • A Roman general and emperor
  • He is punished in the River of Blood by standing eye deep in it
    Canto 12
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Beatrice

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  • Dante’s angel

- represents divine love

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Harpies

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  • Winged creatures with the faces of women
  • Pick off the leaves and branches of the tree-souls
    Canto 13
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3 Beasts

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  • Allegories of three different sins
  • Stopped Dante’s journey to Heaven
  • Leopard represents lustful
  • Lion represents pride
  • She-wolf represents avarice
    Canto 1
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Count Ugolino

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Sold three of his country’s castles to Archbishop Ruggieri, who in turn imprisoned him in what became known as “The Tower of Famine” with four of his sons. They starve, then once they are dead, he eats them, then he starves.
Canto 33

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Marsh of Styx

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A muddy and swampy river where the wrathful and sullen go.

Canto 7

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Archbishop Ruggieri

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Bought three castles from Count Ugolino and then imprisoned him and his four sons in a tower and threw they key in the river and then opened the tower to find Ugolino and his sons dead from starvation
Canto 33

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Ciacco

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  • A friend of Dante
  • Dante and Ciacco are both from Florence
  • Ciacco translates to hog
    Canto 6
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Satan

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  • Most evil being in Hell
  • trapped in lowest circle
  • 3 heads
  • wings
  • chews on sinners
    Canto 34
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Nessus

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The centaur that helps Dante and Virgil across the River of Blood
Canto 12

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Judas

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  • Betrayed Jesus Christ
  • Chewed on by Satan
    Canto 34
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Minos

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  • Leader of the underworld
  • Decides which circle the sinner goes to.
  • Coils tail x amount of times to reveal which circle
  • 1/2 bull 1/2 human
    Canto 5
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Cassius

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  • Roman senator
  • betrayed Julius Caesar
    Canto 34
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Brutus

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  • Roman Senator and friend of Julius Caesar
  • Betrayed Julius Caesar
    Canto 34
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Helen + Paris

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  • Started Trojan war
  • Paris stole Helen
  • Helen liked that Paris took her
    Canto 5
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Cerberus

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  • A three-headed dog who guards the entrance to the classical underworld.
  • Virgil and Dante have to get through the Cyberus in the Gluttons.
    Canto 6

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