Cantos 5 & 34 of Dante's Inferno

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

• Helen

• Dido

• Beatrice

• Francesca

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How are the sinners in the lustful level punished?

• Eternal separation from their beloved

• By the pitchforks of devils

• By the black winds of the abysmal tempest

• By the endless sting of wasps and hornets

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What punishment do Judas, Cassius, and Brutus endure?

• Each is chewed eternally by one of satan's mouths

• Cocytus has frozen them forever in ice

• Each must eternally relive his moment of betrayal

• Each is cursed to be a snake

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How are the majority of sinners in the deepest level punished?

• Burned in an eternal fire

• Frozen in odd positions

• Swept away by an infernal hurricane

• Chasing a banner forever and being stung by wasps

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How do Dante and Virgil escape from hell?

• Their prayers for deliverance are answered

• They climb Satan

• They ride on an eagle sent by Beatrice

• The Archangel Gabriel opened a secret passage

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Why would Dante feel sympathetic for the sinners in Canto 5?

• He was friends with Paolo and pities what happened to him

• He was secretly in love with Francesca and wanted to marry her himself

• He sees himself in their sin because he was in love with Beatrice

• He sees himself in their sin because he was in love with Gemma

Literature intended to teach

• fable

• theme

• didactic

• epic poem

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the underlying message or moral of the story

• theme

• didacticism

• mood

• figurative language

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how the reader feels throughout the story

• mood

• tone

• simile

• allusion

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the punishment matches the crime

• motif

• symbolism

• symbolic retribution

• tone

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