This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Authors > Dante > Dante – Quiz 21 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Dante Quiz 21 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In which work does Dante tell of his first meeting with Beatrice? A) By monarchy. B) New life. C) Banquet. D) Songbook. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) New life. 2. What type of people does Dante NOT see in this circle? A) Actors. B) Clergymen. C) Cardinals. D) Popes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Actors. 3. What does "transhumanize" mean? A) It is the ability to move above the earthly state into heaven. B) It is the ability to reunite with the body. C) It is the ability to commit sins while in the human body. D) It is the ability to separate from the body in order to reach hell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is the ability to move above the earthly state into heaven. 4. Which side did Dante take in the Florentine political struggles? A) He was a moderate pro-paparian. B) He was a moderate pro-imperialist. C) He was a radical pro-paparian. D) He was a radical pro-imperialist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was a moderate pro-paparian. 5. How did Paul, Harry's boss, die? A) Paul suffocated from the hot ash in the air. B) Paul was hit by a pyroclastic bomb, like Harry's friend, at the beginning of the movie. C) Paul, his van, and the bridge was washed down river by a lahar.. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paul, his van, and the bridge was washed down river by a lahar.. 6. In canto XVII Dante meets his ancestor Cacciaguida, in che cielo siamo? A) Mercurio. B) Marte. C) Venus. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Marte. 7. Who was Dante? A) Traveller. B) Accompanying. C) Pap. D) Cheater/Traitor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Traveller. 8. According to Dante, how is hell shaped? A) A snake. B) A funnel. C) A series of boxes inside each other. D) A diamond because of Satan's fight with the trinity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A funnel. 9. What term describes a sulky person? A) Hubris. B) Grateful. C) Wrathful. D) Sullen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sullen. 10. In the "Divine Comedy" , Dante tells of ..... A) A journey across the Mediterranean Sea. B) A journey to the afterlife. C) A trip back to Florence. D) A Journey to Hades. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A journey to the afterlife. 11. Virgil and Dante Escape the inferno by ..... A) Being carried out by angels. B) Clicking their heels together three times. C) Unicorns. D) Sliding down Lucifer's Back. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sliding down Lucifer's Back. 12. One person asks you the question "What's poppin'? " Another person asks you "Is there anything of note occurring at this time? " The first question is an example of ..... A) Vernacular. B) Dialect. C) Silogism. D) Socioeconomics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vernacular. 13. Which is not a historical/literary figure alluded to in Canto V? A) Semiramis. B) Brutus. C) Dido. D) Achilles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brutus. 14. THE CONVIVIO IS ADDRESSED TO AN AUDIENCE: A) OF LETTERS, DESIRING TO DEEPEN THEIR CULTURE. B) OF MEN AND WOMEN DESIRING TO LEARN. C) OF BOURGEOES IN NEED OF EDUCATION TO PRACTICE THE PROFESSION. D) OF MEN OF THE CHURCH OPEN TO THE COMPARISON WITH THE PROFANE CULTURE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) OF MEN AND WOMEN DESIRING TO LEARN. 15. Who will be Dante's guide to the top of the hill of salvation through Hell and Purgatory? A) BEATRICE. B) HOMER. C) ULYSSES. D) VIRGILIO. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) VIRGILIO. 16. What is contrapasso? A) The idea that the punishment fits the crime. B) The poetic verse form used in Vita Nuova. C) The structure of the cantos in The Divine Comedy. D) The theme of love and lust in The Divine Comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The idea that the punishment fits the crime. 17. Dante's guide through hell is ..... A) Virgil. B) Julius Caesar. C) Jesus. D) Satan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Virgil. 18. In the verses To such an image those were made, all that neither yes tall nor so thick, whatever it was, the master felli, to whom does the expression "whatever it was" refer? A) God or the devil. B) To God. C) To the devil. D) To the minotaur. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) God or the devil. 19. In The Paradiso, Dante bases his structure of paradise on which of the following? A) The Renaissance concept of the planets. B) The Ptolemaic universe. C) Ancient Roman cosmology. D) Ancient Greek cosmology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Ptolemaic universe. 20. Incipit vita nova: start a new life. This means that A) Love for Beatrice changes Dante's life. B) After the exile, a new adventure begins for Dante. C) The study of philosophy allows you to change your life. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Love for Beatrice changes Dante's life. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesDante Quiz 1Dante Quiz 2Dante Quiz 3Dante Quiz 4Dante Quiz 5Dante Quiz 6Dante Quiz 7Dante Quiz 8Dante Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books