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Dante's Inferno

Total questions: 37

Worksheet time: 37mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A Florentine 13th-14th century man, lost midway through his life, having forgotten and strayed from the proper ways

a)

Dante

b)

Filipo Argenti

c)

Virgil

2.

Invited to see sin, redemption, and glory with new eyes, by going on a journey through Hell, Purgatory and Heaven, so he can rededicate his life to True Love

a)

Dante

b)

Virgil

c)

Beatrice

3.

Figure of a pilgrim soul

a)

Francesca

b)

Minos

c)

Dante

4.

Creatures scaring Dante away from “the Hill of right living”

a)

Medusa and her sisters

b)

Three Beasts

c)

demons

5.

Ancient Author & Figure of Human Wisdom/Reason

a)

Virgil

b)

Shakespeare

c)

Homer

6.

Woman Dante Knew/Loved in His Youth

(a)  

7.

Figure in Heaven Who Intercedes for and Inspires Dante

(a)  

8.

Boatman Who Ferries the souls of the damned across the river entrance to Hell and doesn’t want to let Dante on his boat.

a)

Charon

b)

Acharon

c)

Hades

9.

Ancient King who shrewdly judges the looks of the Souls of the Dead and sends them to their proper circles of hell for appropriate punishments

a)

Minos

b)

Plutus

c)

Phlegyas

10.

three-headed guard-dog of Hell

(a)  

11.

he dwells in the circle of the endless sleety-rains, and must always be satisfied by chewing on something.

(a)  

12.

The chuckling, nonsensical and maliciously creepy master of all wealth

a)

Plutus

b)

Cerberus

c)

Phlegyas

13.

sits at the entrance to the plain of those souls who contest with each other by rolling great large bags of money at each other

a)

Plutus

b)

Charon

c)

Minos

14.

pilot of a light skiff that shoots over the marshes of quarreling and stifling souls, longing to find damned souls to punish.

a)

Phlegyas

b)

Minos

c)

Medusa

15.

one of the Gorgon sisters; she guards the entrance to the circles of those who sin through more explicit pride against God

(a)  

16.

Any man looking upon her can never return to the upper lands of the living, out of hell. She is a Figure of Proud & Rebellious Despair.

(a)  

17.

one who runs through the upper regions of hell to open a door closed by demons against the will of God

a)

God

b)

Jesus

c)

Heavenly Messenger

18.

place of dark human doubt, distraction, anxiety, purposelessness and fear

a)

The Dark Wood

b)

The Dark and Enchanted Forest

c)

The Enchanted Wood

19.

place of human climbing toward excellence and natural freedom, natural glory and the promise of the gift of something higher.

a)

the Hill

b)

The Mountain

c)

The tower

20.

the gate smashed open forever by the Savior in the Harrowing of Hell

a)

The Doorway to Hell

b)

The Doorway to Heaven

c)

The Doorway to Purgatory

21.

The place of eternal punishments, where every insufficient idol of the human heart is punished eternally by its own “ContraPassio”

a)

Hell

b)

Limbo

c)

Earth

22.

zone between the entrance and the river that is occupied by the souls of those who chose not to choose to love God, or to explicitly fight against Him

a)

The Entryway of the Unnamed

b)

The Hall of the Damned

c)

The Place of the Faceless

23.

river marking the boundary between the entryway and Hell

a)

Acheron

b)

Styx

c)

Mississippi

24.

valley of sighs and tears, in which those who lived with some level of virtue, but without saving faith, live a life bereft of divine hope to be rescued

(a)  

25.

city of sevenfold excellence, in which the heroes of humanity reside who did not attain saving faith, and have only human-lit bonfires to huddle around (in Limbo)

a)

Limbo itself

b)

citadel in Limbo

c)

the hill

26.

place where souls are condemned to deeper rings or circles of Hell, based off of the characteristics of their sinful selves: (a)   Seat of Hell

27.

place of dark lashing hurricane-force winds, dashing the helpless souls and stirring them endlessly: Circle of the (a)  

28.

a place of filth, muck, discomfort, and endlessly freezing slushy rain, turning everything into an uncomfortable and indistinguishable gloppy mess: Circle of the (a)  

29.

place of endless striving to amass and move huge weights from one place to another, in a frustrating and seemingly pointless obsession: Circle of the A (a)   s

30.

marshy place of seething indignation and explosive melt-downs among all one’s neighbors: Circle of the W................. and S.................

(a)  

31.

place dominated by prideful rage against the truth and power of divine love, and set up in hopeless and fruitless opposition to it: Circle of the C....... of D.......

(a)  

32.

Pontius Pilate, for his cowardice in refusing to stand up for and defend the Messiah from the violent crowd: One who made the G............. R...............

(a)  

33.

drawn to Hell by internal desire and necessity, blaspheming God and cursing their parents and the day of their own birth: B (a)   Souls

34.

How many of these people were grouped together in the same circle? Check all that apply.

a)

Homer

b)

Lucan

c)

Ovid

d)

Saladin

e)

Socrates

35.

How many of these people were grouped together in the same circle? Check all that apply.

a)

Francesca & Palo

b)

Cleopatra

c)

Dido

d)

Achilles

e)

Virgil

36.

Who is known as "The Pig" and is also from Florence?

a)

Ciacco

b)

Filippo

c)

Epicurus

37.

Who is known as the "Man of the Silver" and who is also from Florence?

a)

Filippo Argenti

b)

Ciacco

c)

Epicurus