Canto 1 & 3 Check In

Match each item from the text to its allegorical meaning.

• Sins of incontinence

• Leopard

• Sins of violence

• Dante

• Spiritual guidance & reasoning

• Lion

• Sins of fraud

• She-Wolf

• All of humanity

• Virgil

Match the following words to their definition.

• Brave & noble character in an epic poem

• Allusion

• Literature intended to teach

• Didactic

• A work wear everything has a 2nd meaning

• Allegory

• Concept where punishment matches sin

• Epic Hero

• Referring to something indirectly

• Symbolic Retribution

When is Canto 1 set?

• 1320 (Dante is 55)

• Present Day

• 1350 (Dante is 85)

• 1300 (Dante is 35)

Which souls can be found in the vestibule of Hell?

• Those who did not repent

• The people with the worst sins

• Those who stood with neither God nor Lucifer

• Those who were not perfect

What do Dante & Virgil have to cross in order to get down to Hell?

• The River of Dreams

• The River Charon

• The River Acheron

• The River of the Damned

What is the meaning of the sign over the entrance of Hell?

• Get ready to be tortured

• Only the dead may enter

• No one enters except through me

• Unrepentant sinners will be punished forever

What must people do in order to not have to "wait at the gate" of Hell?

• Do the right thing

• Make a stand for God

• Repent for their sins

• Stay out of people's way

What theme is best exhibited in the opening lines of Canto 1?

“I found myself within a forest dark,

For the straightforward pathway had been lost.”

• Sin, Justice, Pity, Piety

• Love

• Language

• Individual Fame

What theme is best exhibited in these lines from Canto 1?

"For the Emperor of that high Imperium

Wills not that I, once rebel to His crown,

Into that city of His should lead men home."

• Sin, Justice, Pity, Piety

• Love

• Language

• Paganism vs. Christianity

What theme is best exhibited in these lines from Canto 1?

"Canst thou be Virgil? Thou that fount of splendour

Whence poured so wide a stream of lordly speech?"

• Paganism vs. Christianity

• Language

• Both of these

• Neither of these