This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Authors > Dante > Dante – Quiz 25 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Dante Quiz 25 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What principle guided God in creating Hell? A) The revenge. B) The truth. C) The harmony. D) The perfection. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The truth. 2. Which of the following is the theme of De Vulgari Eloquentia? A) The historical evolution of language. B) The language of different literary genres. C) The difference between grammar and language. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 3. Who decided to add the adjective Divine to the title "The Comedy" ? A) Dante Alighieri. B) Hugh Foscolo. C) Boccaccio. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Boccaccio. 4. Who are the sinners Dante talks to in the second circle of hell? A) Romeo & Juliet. B) Francesca da Rimini & Paolo Malatesta. C) Mark Antony & Cleopatra. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Francesca da Rimini & Paolo Malatesta. 5. What does "the straight path" allegorically represent? A) The straight way. B) The way of good. C) The way of abundance. D) The way to well-being. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The way of good. 6. The dark forest is an allegory: A) About boredom. B) Of inner malaise. C) Of sin. D) Of alienation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Of sin. 7. The levels of purgatory are associated with which religious concept? A) The planets. B) The seven deadly sins. C) The Augustan calendar. D) The seven sacraments. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The seven deadly sins. 8. Dante, at the end of the Vita Nuova promises not to write until he is ready to A) I will say of her what has never been said of any woman. B) Have an admirable vision of my lady who greets others. C) Speak of the three otherworldly realms, and in particular of Paradise. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I will say of her what has never been said of any woman. 9. When Virgil and Dante reach the innermost layer of inferno, who do they see? A) The Virgin Mary. B) Beatrice waiting to take them to heaven. C) Satan. D) The angel of death. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Satan. 10. To bother or annoy A) Agonostic. B) Lens. C) To recall. D) To bug. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To bug. 11. How does Dante die? A) Of heart attack. B) Over. C) Of malaria. D) Of dysentery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Of malaria. 12. IN WHICH WORK DOES DANTE EXPRESS HIS CONCEPT OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE EMPIRE AND THE PAPATY, AS WELL AS IN THE DIVINE COMEDY? A) OF MONARCHY. B) CONVIVIAL. C) NEW LIFE. D) ON VULGAR SPEECH. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) OF MONARCHY. 13. What is Paolo and Francesca's crime? A) The culprit of love. B) A fraud they trusted. C) A traitor to his benefactor. D) Greed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The culprit of love. 14. How are the verses of the Divine Comedy? A) Chained up. B) Dodecasillabi. C) Hendecasyllables. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hendecasyllables. 15. Identify the reference being made by the pronoun:This is the place I told you to expect. A) Virgil, Dante. B) Dante, Virgil. C) Charon, Virgil. D) God, Dante. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Virgil, Dante. 16. Canto VI of Paradise is the only one A) Devoted to politics. B) Which speaks of the sky of Mercury. C) Entirely occupied by the speech of a character. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Entirely occupied by the speech of a character. 17. The phrase "where the sun is silent" is an example of which poetic device? A) Allegory. B) Metonymy. C) Synesthesia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Synesthesia. 18. According to Dr. Mazzotta, what trait distinguishes Dante's purgatory from his hell? A) Purgatory is less future-oriented. B) Purgatory is a place of redemptive intervention. C) Purgatory includes references to time. D) Purgatory is less rooted in the human, natural world. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Purgatory includes references to time. 19. What is the meaning of the word Purgatory? A) A flood. B) Hail. C) Brimstone. D) Purgatory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Purgatory. 20. Of how many circles is the Hell of the Divine Comedy made up? A) 6. B) 9. C) 10. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 9. ← 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