This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > Dante > Dante – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Dante Quiz 11 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does Dante encounter on his trip to hell? A) Himself being tortured. B) People that he has never seen before. C) All of his friends. D) Sinners being punished. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sinners being punished. 2. So kind and so honest my lady seems, when she greets others. In these verses, Beatrice's greeting is also understood as A) What saves, which gives health, salvation. B) Something the poet cannot do without. C) A gentle way of waving with your right hand, but gently. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) What saves, which gives health, salvation. 3. What is the definition of froth? A) Moral corruption. B) A grouping of small bubbles. C) Comically ugly. D) Vengeance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A grouping of small bubbles. 4. What is the punishment for the level of the lustful? A) Frozen in ice (can never escape). B) Whipped by Minos (for their horrible deeds). C) Burning forever (like burning lust). D) Hurricane winds (caught up in passion). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hurricane winds (caught up in passion). 5. What are the parts of Hell? A) From bugs. B) Arms. C) From rings. D) From circles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) From bugs. 6. How many songs does the work consist of? A) 3. B) 33. C) 99. D) 100. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 100. 7. ACCORDING TO THE PTOLEMAIC SYSTEM DANTE CONCEIVES THE EARTH A) WHICH REVOLVES AROUND THE PLANETS. B) PROPERTY AT THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE. C) WHICH REVOLVES AROUND THE SUN. D) MOBILE AT THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) PROPERTY AT THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE. 8. How many hymns contain the inscription of the gates of hell? A) 33rd song. B) 3rd song. C) 1st song. D) 7th song. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3rd song. 9. How do Dante and Virgil escape hell? A) Beatrice shows them the way. B) They pray to God and a tunnel is opened up. C) A seemingly unending staircase. D) Satan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Satan. 10. What animal does Dante not encounter at the beginning of the Divine Comedy? A) Panther. B) Lion. C) Farkas. D) Jackal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jackal. 11. You are in a restaurant in London, England and you overhear someone order fish and CHIPS. Their order arrives and it contains fried fish with a side order of french fries. CHIPS is an example of ..... A) Vernacular. B) Dialect. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dialect. 12. Recognized in the literature as A) Father of the Italian language. B) The loving. C) Symbolic. D) Father of the will. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Father of the Italian language. 13. Who does not belong in limbo, according to Dante? A) Virtuous pagans. B) Soldiers. C) Children. D) Old Testament saints. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Soldiers. 14. Because the security guards and teachers were not present in the cafeteria during lunch hour, it was ..... A) Grotesque. B) Pandemonium. C) Tremulous. D) Depravity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pandemonium. 15. What is the part of Hell called where those convicted of sins of malice are? A) Antenna. B) Flegetonte. C) Say. D) Cocytus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Say. 16. The figure of Beatrice in the Comedy is: A) Realistic and clearly placed in time and space. B) Abstract, intangible, removed from the action of time. C) Symbol of female beauty. D) Attractive, magnificent object of desire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abstract, intangible, removed from the action of time. 17. Which other literary artist did Dante admire the most? A) Homer. B) Virgil. C) Brunetto Latini. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Virgil. 18. If you don't attend your class you will ..... without a diploma. A) Wind up. B) Lens. C) Oleander. D) Premise. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wind up. 19. At one point, Dante arrives at a sunlit hill. What does the sun represent? A) Happiness. B) Human error. C) Divine grace. D) Repentance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Divine grace. 20. Which of these poets became friends? A) Dante and Boccaccio. B) Boccaccio and Petrarch. C) Petrarch and Dante. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Boccaccio and Petrarch. 21. Who was Dante's love interest? A) Clarissa. B) Francesca. C) Voce. D) Beatrice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Beatrice. 22. The pain in her leg hurt so badly she was ..... on the floor. The gym teachers called the nurse for help. A) Converging. B) Writhing. C) Laughing. D) Corresponding. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Writhing. 23. Dante engaged in the city's political life between: A) The Black Guelphs. B) The White Guelphs. C) The Ghibellines. D) The white Guelphs, the more moderate part of the pope's supporters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The white Guelphs, the more moderate part of the pope's supporters. 24. Select the correct answer Dante's most important work is A) The Divine Comedy. B) The Iliad. C) The odyssey. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Divine Comedy. 25. Where was Dante Alighieri from? A) Greece. B) Italy. C) Russia. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Italy. 26. What is De vulgari eloquentia? A) THE TREATY ON LANGUAGE, WRONGLY ATTRIBUTED TO DANTE. B) A LINGUISTIC TREATISE ON A LANGUAGE SUITABLE FOR LITERARY WRITING. C) A TREATY OF POLITICS THAT SERVES INSPIRATION FOR THE DIVINE COMEDY. D) AN INTELLECTUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF YOUNG DANTE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A LINGUISTIC TREATISE ON A LANGUAGE SUITABLE FOR LITERARY WRITING. 27. What job does Charon, the steersman, perform? A) He guides lost souls away from hell. B) He tames the wild beasts. C) He carries dead souls to hell on a ferry. D) He is the devil's right hand man. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He carries dead souls to hell on a ferry. 28. Dante's Inferno is an ....., a work of literature with both a literal meaning and symbolic meaning. A) Epic poem. B) Antithesis. C) Allegory. D) Parable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allegory. 29. According to Dante, how is Hell structured? A) The more serious the crime, the more severe the punishment. B) The more sinful the weight, the more. C) All earthlings go here. D) Whoever Dante doesn't love goes to Hell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The more serious the crime, the more severe the punishment. 30. Who gave the divine epithet "divina" to the work? A) Boccaccio. B) Virgil. C) Horace. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Boccaccio. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesAuthors QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesDante Quiz 1Dante Quiz 2Dante Quiz 3Dante Quiz 4Dante Quiz 5Dante Quiz 6Dante Quiz 7Dante Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books