Dante Quiz 33 (17 MCQs)

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1. The figure of Beatrice in the Comedy is:

Correct Answer: B) Abstract, intangible, removed from the action of time.

2. Which other literary artist did Dante admire the most?

Correct Answer: B) Virgil.

3. If you don't attend your class you will ..... without a diploma.

Correct Answer: A) Wind up.

4. At one point, Dante arrives at a sunlit hill. What does the sun represent?

Correct Answer: C) Divine grace.

5. Which of these poets became friends?

Correct Answer: B) Boccaccio and Petrarch.

6. Who was Dante's love interest?

Correct Answer: D) Beatrice.

7. The pain in her leg hurt so badly she was ..... on the floor. The gym teachers called the nurse for help.

Correct Answer: D) Writhing.

8. Dante engaged in the city's political life between:

Correct Answer: D) The white Guelphs, the more moderate part of the pope's supporters.

9. Select the correct answer Dante's most important work is

Correct Answer: A) The Divine Comedy.

10. Where was Dante Alighieri from?

Correct Answer: B) Italy.

11. What is De vulgari eloquentia?

Correct Answer: A) A LINGUISTIC TREATISE ON A LANGUAGE SUITABLE FOR LITERARY WRITING.

12. What is limbo?

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

13. What job does Charon, the steersman, perform?

Correct Answer: C) He carries dead souls to hell on a ferry.

14. Dante's Inferno is an ....., a work of literature with both a literal meaning and symbolic meaning.

Correct Answer: C) Allegory.

15. According to Dante, how is Hell structured?

Correct Answer: A) The more serious the crime, the more severe the punishment.

16. + 21, 987

Correct Answer: B) 55, 263.

17. Who gave the divine epithet "divina" to the work?

Correct Answer: A) Boccaccio.