This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > Dante > Dante – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Dante Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is NOT a reaction from Dante to the story of Francesca and Paolo? A) He is downcast. B) He swoons and faints. C) He asks Virgil questions. D) He prays to God. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He prays to God. 2. According to most critics, Vita Nuova is an example of which of the following genres? A) Autobiography. B) Framed narrative. C) Lyric poetry. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 3. What is the category of crime punished in Circle 7? A) Incontinence. B) Simple Fraud. C) Complex Fraud. D) Violence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Violence. 4. What works has Dante Alighieri made? A) The Divine Comedy, Celestina and Eloquence in the Vernacular. B) The Divine Comedy, Eloquence in the Vernacular and New Life. C) The Divine Comedy, New Life and the Altarpiece of Wonders. D) None is correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Divine Comedy, Eloquence in the Vernacular and New Life. 5. In paradise, who is Dante Alighieri's guide? A) Venus. B) Laura. C) Aphrodite. D) Beatriz. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Beatriz. 6. In The Paradiso, which quality does Dante associate with the wise? A) Justice. B) Temperance. C) Fortitude. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 7. What is the decimal point for? A) To separate the integer from the decimal. B) To separate the nominator from the denominator. C) To see the difference. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To separate the integer from the decimal. 8. The poem is divided into three parts called A) Triplets. B) Songs. C) Do you sing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Songs. 9. What do Dante and Virgil first see when they emerge from hell? A) The sun. B) Beatrice. C) The stars. D) Angels. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The stars. 10. Who was Can Grande? A) Dante's enemy. B) The emperor of Italy in Dante's lifetime. C) The poet who leads Dante on a tour of hell. D) Dante's patron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dante's patron. 11. The verses are grouped into: A) Rhyming triplets. B) Quatrains in rhyming couplets. C) Rhyming quatrains. D) Rhyming triplets. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyming triplets. 12. Who do Dante and Virgil first meet in this level? A) Francesca. B) Minos. C) Beatrice. D) Satan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Minos. 13. Which of these works is NOT by Dante? A) Commedia. B) Banquet. C) So kind and so honest it seems. D) Song of Creatures. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Song of Creatures. 14. How long does Dante's imaginary journey last? A) A week. B) A month. C) Six months. D) Three years. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A week. 15. Participated in affairs A) Dramatic. B) Theatrical. C) Philosophical. D) Politicians. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Politicians. 16. The quote "abandon all hope ye who enter here" is from which text? A) The Divine Comedy. B) De Monarchia. C) Vita Nuova. D) De Vulgari Eloquentia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Divine Comedy. 17. What does the "dark forest" symbolize? A) The habitat where vampires live. B) The thick forest. C) The place of darkness. D) The sin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The sin. 18. In The Paradiso, who leads Dante on his tour of heaven? A) Virgil. B) Cato. C) Beatrice. D) Ulysses. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beatrice. 19. In The Inferno, how is the idea of Fortune represented? A) Fortune is a "divine minister" similar to an angel. B) Fortune is responsible for the distribution of worldly goods. C) Fortune is beyond human understanding. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 20. How many skies does Dante's Paradise consist of? A) 9. B) 10. C) 11. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 10. 21. Why might Dante have written it in that language? A) Because he didn't know how to write in any other language. B) Someone else wrote it for him. C) He thought that language made it sound better. D) So the common people could read it. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) So the common people could read it. 22. Based on the excerpt from Canto 3, which literary device is used to convey God's power over Hell? "Justice incited my sublime Creator; Created me divine Omnipotence, The highest Wisdom and the primal Love." A) Imagery. B) Euphemism. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 23. In order for Dante to have a chance at redemption, he must first: A) Commit only sins of weakness. B) Ask Virgil for forgiveness. C) Face his dark side. D) Perform a certain number of good deeds. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Face his dark side. 24. THE CHARACTERS CASSIO, BRUTUS AND JUDAS REPRESENT THE: A) MISERY. B) SUGAR. C) AVARICE. D) TREASON. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) TREASON. 25. What is the function of the River Lethe? A) It separates heaven from hell. B) It washes away the memory of sin. C) It separates Dante from the other sinners. D) It prevents sinners from escaping hell. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It washes away the memory of sin. 26. The name of the souls described in Canto III who are all about themselves is A) Wrathful. B) Opportunists. C) Conceited. D) Pagans. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Opportunists. 27. What term describes a person who hoards things? A) Waster. B) Hoarder. C) Sullen. D) Wrathful. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hoarder. 28. What does the term "translatio studii" mean? A) The movement from one circle of hell to another. B) The ability to move from purgatory into heaven. C) The idea that the punishment fits the crime. D) The translation of culture from one civilization to another. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The translation of culture from one civilization to another. 29. How many circles was hell divided into in the Divine Comedy? A) 9. B) 7. C) 8. D) 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 9. 30. Which beast did NOT block Dante on his journey? A) Tiger. B) Leoopard. C) Wolf. D) Lion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tiger. 31. Why is so much space in canto VI given to the history of the Roman Empire? A) Because it is the place of pagan corruption. B) Because providence wanted it to be able to found the church. C) Because Dante was a Guelph. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because providence wanted it to be able to found the church. 32. What are the sins of incontinence? A) Lust, gluttony, avarice, wrath. B) Lust, gluttony. C) Greed, anger. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lust, gluttony, avarice, wrath. 33. WORST SIN FOR DANTE A) GLUTTONY. B) TREASON. C) LUJURIA. D) FRAUD. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TREASON. 34. Who sent the guide to Dante? A) Beatrice. B) Cleopatra. C) His mother. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beatrice. 35. What was the original title of The Divine Comedy? A) Tragedy. B) Hymnica. C) Publica. D) Comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Comedy. 36. Here lie the heretics in their eternal flaming tombs. A) Circle 4. B) Circle 8. C) Circle 6. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Circle 6. 37. Once Harry and team decided to monitor the mountain, they did all of the following except? A) Monitored for earthquakes and mountain swelling. B) Monitored for sulfur and carbon dioxide gases emissions. C) Checked the temperature of mountain. D) Checked for how acidic the lake was. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Checked the temperature of mountain. 38. What language family did Kosraean originate A) Slavic. B) Romance. C) Austronesian. D) Altaic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Austronesian. 39. The narration of the Divine Comedy is done A) In first person. B) The first part in first person, the second in third person. C) In third person. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In first person. 40. Who are the traitors in Satan's mouth? A) Brutus, Judas, Cassius. B) Brutus, marc antony, Cassius. C) Brutus, Minos, Cassius. D) Paolo, Mino, Brutus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brutus, Judas, Cassius. 41. Who are the slothful? A) Those who did not believe in God or lived in Paganism. B) Those who are excluded from the judgment because they have not committed any faults or accomplished any merits. C) Those who have not been baptized. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Those who are excluded from the judgment because they have not committed any faults or accomplished any merits. 42. The souls of the uncommitted were joined by which neutral beings? A) Demons. B) Dante and Virgil. C) Angels. D) Babies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Angels. 43. What crime did the characters in the text commit? A) Money worship. B) Suicide. C) Theft. D) Unbaptized. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Money worship. 44. Where is Dante when he writes the Divine Comedy? A) In exile. B) On vacation. C) In Florence. D) In Paris. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In exile. 45. Who is the worst in PVP A) Thiago. B) Gonzalo. C) BAUTI. D) Dante. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dante. 46. The songs are respectively dedicated to the A) Hell, Heaven, Purgatory. B) Hell, Purgatory, Paradise. C) Heaven, Hell and Purgatory. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hell, Purgatory, Paradise. 47. NASA supplied Harry with a device that was a geo-tracker, called E.L.F., it was attached to spider legs. What did it end up being used for? A) To show the location of the volcano. B) To show the location of the robotic spider legs. C) To show where Harry was. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To show where Harry was. 48. Dante's Inferno was written by A) Dante Petrarca. B) Dante Swift. C) Dante Boccaccio. D) Dante Alighieri. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dante Alighieri. 49. FROM A POLITICAL POINT OF VIEW DANTE SUPPORTED ..... A) THE BLACK GHIBELLINS. B) THE WHITE GUELFI. C) THE BLACK GUELPHS. D) THE WHITE GHIBELLINS. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) THE WHITE GUELFI. 50. Dante Alighieri's poem is A) Allegorical. B) Didactic. C) Allegorical and didactic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allegorical and didactic. 51. What do the beasts represent? A) Dante's sin. B) Dante's enemies. C) Demons. D) Angels. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dante's sin. 52. How long is the imaginary journey? A) One year. B) 7 days. C) One day. D) 3 months. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 7 days. 53. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING WORKS BY DANTE CONSISTS OF A POLITICAL TREATISE IN LATIN? A) CONVIVIAL. B) OF MONARCHY. C) NEW LIFE. D) ON VULGAR SPEECH. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) OF MONARCHY. 54. In which text did Dante introduce the "dolce stil novo" technique? A) The Convivio. B) Vita Nuova. C) Eclogues. D) De Vulgari Eloquentia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vita Nuova. 55. How many songs does the "Divine Comedy" have in total? A) 60. B) 100. C) 30. D) 90. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 100. 56. The protagonist recounts his experiences in ..... A) T/2. B) E/2. C) E/1. D) T/3. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) E/1. 57. Who is it that in Paradise reveals to Dante the meaning of the prophecies about exile? A) Beatrice. B) The emperor Justinian. C) Cacciaguide. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cacciaguide. 58. Who are Dante's three guides? A) Virgil, Beatrice and Saint Bernard. B) Virgil, Charon and Beatrice. C) Virgil, Paul and Frances. D) Virgil, Beatrice and St. Thomas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Virgil, Beatrice and Saint Bernard. 59. Do most of the Kosrae people believe Hinduism A) No. B) Depends on what time it is. C) Yes. D) Who knows?. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No. 60. How does Dante feel about being Mexican-American? A) He loves it, he is proud of his heritage. B) He hates it. C) He is ambivalent; it's okay. D) He is confused about it and feels sometimes out of place and more American. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He is confused about it and feels sometimes out of place and more American. Next →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesDante 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