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WorksheetsDante's Inferno
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 25mins
Why was Dante exiled in 1302?
illness
famine
choice
political opinions
According to Dante, the worst of all sins is _____.
Treachery/Betrayal
Fraud
Violence/anger
Lucifer has six wings.
True
False
At the beginning of the story, Dante finds himself lost in a?
violent sea
Burning plain
Dark wood
Blinding storm
What is the meaning of "going astray"?
He went blind
he sinned
he was exiled from Florence
He lost his poetic talent
When Dante tries to travel toward the beautiful mountain and leave the dark valley behind, what animal blocks his path at FIRST?
She-wolf
Lion
Leopard
Cheetah
Who was the heavenly woman who was concerned about Dante and broke the strict decree?
Beatrice
Lucia
Rachel
Virgin Mary
Dante's journey begins on
Christamas eve
All saints eve
Good Friday
Easter Sunday
The rings of hell in Dante's vision
are arranged in order in which the sins were committed in time
sinners arranged in the chronological order of their lives
contain only the contemporaries of Dante
Are arranged in degrees of the evil of the sin
____________ is the first ferryman on the river __________.
Charon Acheron
Charon Styx
Cerebus Lethe
Virgil Acheron
Limbo is a place where
souls are waiting to be judged and placed
Souls who have lost their way and don't know they are dead
Souls who died before Christ dwell
souls that are on their way to heaven
Who are the opportunist?
People who looked for opportunities in their life
People who never appreciate the opportunities that were presented to them in life
People who were neither for good or bad, only themselves
people in the 2nd circle
How are the opportunist punished?
Chasing an ever changing banner
running naked being stung by bees and wasps
maggots and worms eating the pus and blood from their wounds
all of these answers
According to Dante, how is hell shaped?
a snake
a funnel
a series of boxes inside each other
a diamond because of Satan's fight with the trinity
What is the "vestibule of hell"?
waiting area
limbo
the entrance to hell
the way out
What happens to the suicides?
they are in a lake of boiling blood
they are under the murky lake up to their eyeballs
they are turned into flesh eating hounds
they are turned into trees
When Virgil and Dante reach the innermost layer of inferno, who do they see?
the Virgin Mary
Beatrice waiting to take them to heaven
Satan
The angel of death
Who is in the mouth of Satan?
Hitler, Stalin, Macbeth
Judas, Brutus, Cassius
Ceasar, Judas, Macbeth
Hades, Judas, Cassius
When Virgil explains that Satan "is still positioned as he was before./ On this side he fell down from heaven", he is explaining
Why hell is so cold
Why Satan cannot leave hell
The way the earth was pierced when Satan fell
The reason Satan is upside down
How do the souls get assigned a certain circle?
the harpies fly them there
satan
Centaur
Minos
What do the harpies look like?
three headed dog
a half man half horse
a half man half goat
a bird with human neck and face
