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WorksheetsInferno Circles 6-9
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
In Dante's Inferno, what does the Ninth Circle of Hell look like?
A frozen lake
A fiery pit
A prison
aAn ocean full of sharks
What is Geryon thought to represent?
pity
violence
joy
fraud
Who brings Dante from the Eighth to the Ninth Circle of Hell?
Lucifer
Anateus
Virgil
A divine messenger
How is the number 3 used throughout The Divine Comedy?
Dante has 3 guides throughout the book.
The Divine Comedy takes place over 33 days.
Dante felt that people had 3 chances to repent.
Dante divided the book into 3 sections, each with 33 cantos, and is a reference to the Holy Trinity.
Heaven and Hell both have 3 levels.
What group of people in Inferno are punished in flaming coffins in a ''cemetery?''
Heretics
Violent
Simoniacs
Unbaptized
What type of irony is used when the alchemist refers to himself as a 'skillful ape' in Inferno?
Situational Irony
Verbal Irony
Dramatic Irony
Cosmic Irony
Dante uses _____, or ''counter-strike,'' throughout Inferno to indicate the relationship between what sinners did during their life and their punishment after death.
contrapasso
aeneid
simoniacs
fatisimo
Which of the following quotes refers to the rocky, treacherous bridge that Virgil and Dante have to cross at the beginning of Canto 24 of Dante's Inferno?
It ''shone / The color of shame''
A ''circular band divided in ten concentric valleys''
''The contour of the land / Made one side higher and the other low''
''No o or i could be made with strokes as fast / As he took fire and burned and withered away, / Sinking''
Why is it shocking for Dante to hear that the soul asking him to remove the ice from his eyes in Canto 33 of Inferno is Friar Alberigo?
He thought Alberigo was in a different circle in hell
He didn't think Alberigo would tell him his name
Alberigo was his uncle
He thought Alberigo was still alive
Which of the following quotes describes the scene Dante and Virgil encounter at the end of Canto 32 in the Inferno?
They find a ''horde [of sinners] beyond all others ill-begot''
They are ''deep in the darkness of the pit''
One sinner is chewing on the neck of another ''the way the starving devour their bread''
Two sinners are so close that ''their hair [is] interknit'' and their foreheads are frozen together
Sinners condemned to the Sixth Circle of Hell in Dante's Inferno are guilty of which of the following sins?
Violence
Fraud
Lust
Heresy
In Dante's Inferno, which of the following descriptive quotes relates to the angel who appears at the gate of the City of Dis in the Sixth Circle of Hell?
He ''glow[s] with a fiercer heat / Than a smith could need.''
He crosses ''a great Plain filled with woe and torment.''
His body is wrapped in ''wreath[s]'' of ''bright green hydras,'' or multi-headed vipers.
He makes ''a fearsome crash, by which both shores [of the River Styx] were shaken.''
In Dante's Inferno, which contrapasso best fits metaphorically with the sin of people who were violent against others?
Being buffeted by winds
Being boiled in blood.
Being turned into trees
Being forced to run forever
What is the first round of the ninth circle called?
Judecca
Antenora
Caina
Ptolomaea
What is the meaning of the word “Malebolge”?
Evil ditches
Evil pockets
Evil claws
Evil eyes
How were the spirits in the first trench in the eighth circle of hell punished in Canto 18 of Dante's Inferno?
They were treated exactly as they had treated women during their lifetimes.
They were whipped by demons as they ran back and forth between the two sides of the trench.
They were living in a pit of fire.
They were trapped in a sea of human filth, always treading water.
Which type of irony is used to describe the punishments of the sinners in Inferno?
Verbal Irony
Cosmic Irony
Dramatic Irony
Situational Irony
What is the metaphorical significance of Satan being in a dark, icy place at the bottom of Hell in Dante's Inferno?
There is no fire at all in Hell.
Satan does not want others to see his form.
Satan is punished with ice because it is the most torturous.
God is representative of light and warmth
Which traitor is in the middle head of Satan being eaten head first?
Judas
Brutus
Cassius
Caesar
Which monster protect Circle Seven?
Minotaur
Furies
Geryon
Demons
