This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Authors > Dante > Dante – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Dante Quiz 6 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Dante is important because: A) He wrote many works. B) He made the literary vernacular famous. C) He was a well-known figure in Italian politics. D) It was against the black Guelphs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He made the literary vernacular famous. 2. Dante was born in A) Siena. B) Arezzo. C) Firenze. D) Fiesole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Firenze. 3. The Divine Comedy has ..... parts. The first one is called ..... A) 3/Inferno. B) 3/Purgatorio. C) 6/Paradiso. D) 4/Inferno. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3/Inferno. 4. In The Purgatorio, what do the steps to the Gate of Purgatory represent? A) The seven deadly sins. B) The seven types of sin that keep people from heaven. C) The three components of the perfect confession. D) The eight beatitudes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The three components of the perfect confession. 5. By whom is the poet accompanied up to the earthly Paradise? A) Virgilio. B) Beatrice. C) Can Grande. D) Lucifer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Virgilio. 6. Each cantica is divided into A) 33 songs. B) In 33 cantos, but in Hell there are 34 because there is an introductory canto. C) 100 songs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In 33 cantos, but in Hell there are 34 because there is an introductory canto. 7. Why doesn't Dante need to ask Beatrice questions? A) Because in Paradise there are no more doubts. B) Because she reads his mind. C) Because it is not permitted to do so in Paradise. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because she reads his mind. 8. How many days did melissa get suspended A) 100. B) 200. C) 300. D) All of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of them. 9. The slammer A) Jail. B) Fraud. C) Inscrutable. D) Premise. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jail. 10. Which traitor is devoured, head first, in Satan's mouth? A) Judas. B) Thomas. C) Belzebub. D) Julius Caesar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Judas. 11. Who is Beatrice? A) Dante's friend. B) A sinner from hell. C) The woman Dante is in love with (Donna Angelo). D) Dante's mother. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The woman Dante is in love with (Donna Angelo). 12. From what work did Dante extract certain ideas that he embodied in The Divine Comedy? A) The odyssey. B) Filoctetes. C) The aeneid. D) The Bible. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The aeneid. 13. In The Inferno, where is hell physically situated? A) Beneath Cairo. B) Beneath Jerusalem. C) Beneath Rome. D) Beneath Florence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beneath Jerusalem. 14. In De Monarchia, what political opinion does Dante express about empire? A) He promotes the separation of Church and State. B) He declares papal authority infallible. C) He declares emperors infallible. D) He says that all empires should be ruled by dictators. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He promotes the separation of Church and State. 15. The quote "women who have intellect of love" is from which text? A) Vita Nuova. B) De Monarchia. C) De Vulgari Eloquentia. D) The Divine Comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vita Nuova. 16. What is the name of a triangle with equal sides? A) Scalene. B) Isosceles. C) Equilateral. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Equilateral. 17. What happens to the suicides? A) They are in a lake of boiling blood. B) They are under the murky lake up to their eyeballs. C) They are turned into flesh eating hounds. D) They are turned into trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They are turned into trees. 18. ..... is a state of final purification or cleansing, which one may need following death and before entering Heaven. A) Inferno. B) Purgatorio. C) Paradiso. D) Limbo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Purgatorio. 19. What is the definition for lamentation? A) Hard to find. B) Shaking or quivering. C) Full of chaos and disorder. D) The expression of sorrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The expression of sorrow. 20. What does Beatrice represent? A) Divine Love. B) Happiness. C) Beauty. D) Dante's girlfriend. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Divine Love. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesDante Quiz 1Dante Quiz 2Dante Quiz 3Dante Quiz 4Dante Quiz 5Dante Quiz 7Dante Quiz 8Dante Quiz 9Dante Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books