This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Authors > Dante > Dante – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Dante Quiz 9 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What subjects did Dante study? A) Rhetoric and grammar. B) Mathematics and geometry. C) Music and singing. D) Italian and German. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetoric and grammar. 2. What contribution did Giovanni Boccaccio make to the novel? A) He translated the work into Latin. B) It gave the adjective Divine to "Comedy". C) Wrote the novel's prologue. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It gave the adjective Divine to "Comedy". 3. The Divine Comedy is an allegorical poem because ..... A) Has non-symbolic meanings. B) It has no symbolic meanings. C) Has symbolic meanings. D) Has metaphorical meanings. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Has symbolic meanings. 4. What part of his body does Minos use on the sinners? A) His horns. B) His feet. C) His tail. D) His fists. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His tail. 5. The Florence in which Dante lived was divided between: A) Guelphs and Ghibellines. B) White Guelphs and Black Guelphs. C) Catholics and Protestants. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) White Guelphs and Black Guelphs. 6. The chained rhyme is A) Aba bcb. B) Father. C) Abba. D) Aabb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aba bcb. 7. What term describes a person who is consumed with anger? A) Sullen. B) Wrathful. C) Hubris. D) Sympathetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wrathful. 8. In canto I Dante invokes Apollo, because: A) He is the guardian of Paradise. B) The Muses are not enough. C) The Muses are pagan deities. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Muses are not enough. 9. What is the last circle of hell reserved for? A) Lust. B) Limbo. C) Treachery. D) Violence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Treachery. 10. What is the name given to Circle One? A) Paridisio. B) The Vestibule. C) Limbo. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Limbo. 11. According to the Divine Comedy, how many circles is hell made up of? A) Three. B) Six. C) Nine. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nine. 12. How many short stories are there in the Decameron? A) Seventy. B) Hundred. C) Three hundred and sixty-five. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hundred. 13. A river of boiling blood & fire, or trees & bushes being eaten by harpies, being eaten alive by dogs, or stuck in land of burning sand and rains of fire-avoid violence and you avoid this circle. A) Circle 5. B) Circle 2. C) Circle 7. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Circle 7. 14. Dante's profession while in Florence was ..... A) Doctor. B) Farmer. C) Politician. D) Farmer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Politician. 15. The lion represents which type of sin? A) Violent. B) Incontinence. C) Malicious. D) Selfish. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Violent. 16. According to Dante, which is necessary in order to make a perfect confession? A) The secret confession of sins. B) A lack of remorse. C) The inability to reject one's old life. D) A sense of gratitude for God's mercy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A sense of gratitude for God's mercy. 17. What is the definition for glut? A) Excess amounts of something. B) Repulsively ugly. C) To match exactly. D) Suffering from hunger. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Excess amounts of something. 18. Dante's nine spheres of heaven are associated with which of the following religious concepts? A) The deadly sins. B) The steps to confession. C) The beatitudes. D) The angelic hierarchy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The angelic hierarchy. 19. Select the correct answer Beatriz personifies a. A) The humanity. B) The reason. C) Faith. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Faith. 20. What is NOT something that set the conditions for the sins of Francesca and Paolo A) Being alone. B) Reading love stories. C) Vice. D) Netflix and chill. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Netflix and chill. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesDante Quiz 1Dante Quiz 2Dante Quiz 3Dante Quiz 4Dante Quiz 5Dante Quiz 6Dante Quiz 7Dante Quiz 8Dante Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books