Dante Quiz 2 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is the symbolic number in The Divine Comedy?
2. The ..... of the play was to save the princess from being eaten by a dragon
3. Which is NOT one of the symbolic beasts that represent different types of sin and block Dante from the sun?
4. When Harry first got to Dante's Peak he looked and the rocks and trees in the area of the mountain and also tested the
5. How to say because
6. Which of the following is NOT one of the parts of the Divine Comedy?
7. What does the valley symbolize?
8. Which of these characters or places is NOT an allegory in the Comedy
9. A person who uses the mind creatively
10. Wrathful or sullen in your earthly life? Full of anger or gloomy? Prepare yourself to spend your days here in the afterlife
11. The stock room of the grocery store had a ..... amount of snack chips for the upcoming sale for Labor Day.
12. Which people had no punishment but no hope of paradise because they were never baptized?
13. In The Paradiso, who does Dante meet in the sphere of the sun?
14. The "New Life" has been written
15. Where did Dante stay while he was in exile?
16. What is the law that regulates punishments in Hell and Purgatory?
17. The Divine Comedy is made up of 3 parts:
18. How does Minos indicate his judgment against each soul?
19. Which of the following is NOT true of Dante?
20. According to Dante, which is the most serious sin in hell?
21. Who was Costanza, whom Dante meets in canto III?
22. What is the rhyme scheme of Divine Comedy?
23. According to Dante's moral reasoning in Inferno, one's experiences in the afterlife are based upon one's ..... while on earth.
24. In The Paradiso, on what day do the events occur?
25. Who is one of the most sensual figures in the Divine Comedy?
26. This fast moving hot cloud of ash, hot gases and steam and volcanic bombs can move down the mountain at speeds of 200 km/h.
27. Why does Dante go on the journey to the afterlife?
28. The Divine Comedy is written in ENDECASYLABLE TRIPLE. What rhyme and pattern does it use?
29. What caused the wind in this layer?
30. How many subscribers does dtay knowns have?
31. In which way was Dante a precursor of humanism?
32. "So kind and honest it seems" is (choose the correct statements)
33. In the Divine Comedy Dante personifies .....
34. How many mouths does Lucifer have?
35. Who are guilty in the lobby of Hell?
36. What epithet did contemporaries associate with Dante's work?
37. What is the function of the Primum Mobile?
38. Dante is important because:
39. Dante was born in
40. The Divine Comedy has ..... parts. The first one is called .....
41. In The Purgatorio, what do the steps to the Gate of Purgatory represent?
42. By whom is the poet accompanied up to the earthly Paradise?
43. Each cantica is divided into
44. Why doesn't Dante need to ask Beatrice questions?
45. How many days did melissa get suspended
46. Which traitor is devoured, head first, in Satan's mouth?
47. Who is Beatrice?
48. From what work did Dante extract certain ideas that he embodied in The Divine Comedy?
49. In The Inferno, where is hell physically situated?
50. In De Monarchia, what political opinion does Dante express about empire?
51. The quote "women who have intellect of love" is from which text?
52. What is the name of a triangle with equal sides?
53. What happens to the suicides?
54. ..... is a state of final purification or cleansing, which one may need following death and before entering Heaven.
55. What is the definition for lamentation?
56. What does Beatrice represent?
57. ..... is angry to see Dante because Dante is still alive.
58. In The Inferno, who defends the city of Dis?
59. What does the inscription on the gate of Hell mean?
60. What distinguishes Cacciaguida's souls of heaven?