Inferno Canto 5

What is the deadly sin expressed in Canto 5?

• Greed
• Limbo
• Lust
• Treachery

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CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

Which of these characters were spoken of in Canto 5?

• Judas Iscariot
• Achilles
• Dis
• Brutus

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.K.5

"There _____ sits, grinning, grotesque, and hale."

• Virgil
• Tristan
• Minos
• Lucifer

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL. 6.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

"The other is Dido, faithless to the ashes of Sichaeus, she killed herself for love." Suicide along with lust is a sin in Dante's Inferno.

• True
• False

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CCSS.RL. 6.5

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

Charon decides where souls are to be placed in Hell.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL. 6.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.1.4

How are the pairs of forbidden lovers punished in the Second Circle?

• By eternal separation from the beloved.
• By the black winds of the abysmal tempest.
• By the endless stings of wasps and hornets
• By the pitchforks of the devils.
  

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL. 6.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.3.4

What is the name of the adulteress for whom Dante feels great pity?

• Helen
• Dido
  
• Beatrice
• Francesca

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

"sinned in the flesh, ______ and lusty who betrayed reason to their appetite."

• the carnal
• the evil
• the miserable
• the soulless

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.K.5

Who was Francesca married to?

• Lancelot
• Paolo
• Giovanni
• Tristan

"Love led us to one death. In the depths of Hell Caina waits for him." Who is the speaker referring to?

• Paolo
• Giovanni
• Minos
• Lancelot

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.5