This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > Dante > Dante – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Dante Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the symbolic number in The Divine Comedy? A) 1. B) 7. C) 3. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 2. The ..... of the play was to save the princess from being eaten by a dragon A) Premise. B) Oleander. C) Conscience. D) Acknowledge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Premise. 3. Which is NOT one of the symbolic beasts that represent different types of sin and block Dante from the sun? A) Vulture. B) Wolf. C) Lion. D) Panther. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vulture. 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 A) For gasses in the crater. B) Water in the lake to see what its acidity levels were. C) Temperature of the water in the hot springs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Water in the lake to see what its acidity levels were. 5. How to say because A) Cheese. B) Chicken. C) Por que. D) Why. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Por que. 6. Which of the following is NOT one of the parts of the Divine Comedy? A) Infintissimo. B) Paradiso. C) Purgatorio. D) Inferno. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Infintissimo. 7. What does the valley symbolize? A) The freedom. B) The happiness. C) Divine providence. D) The nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Divine providence. 8. Which of these characters or places is NOT an allegory in the Comedy A) Virgin Mary. B) The dark jungle. C) Virgilio. D) Beatrice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Virgin Mary. 9. A person who uses the mind creatively A) To wind up. B) Intellectual. C) Tarred patches. D) Optimist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Intellectual. 10. Wrathful or sullen in your earthly life? Full of anger or gloomy? Prepare yourself to spend your days here in the afterlife A) Circle 5. B) Circle 4. C) Circle 7. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Circle 5. 11. The stock room of the grocery store had a ..... amount of snack chips for the upcoming sale for Labor Day. A) Writhing. B) Gluttonous. C) Miserly. D) Elusive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gluttonous. 12. Which people had no punishment but no hope of paradise because they were never baptized? A) Lustful & carnal. B) Opportunists & non-committed. C) Pagans & virtuous heros. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pagans & virtuous heros. 13. In The Paradiso, who does Dante meet in the sphere of the sun? A) Thomas Aquinas. B) Virgil. C) Cacciaguida. D) Judas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thomas Aquinas. 14. The "New Life" has been written A) Between 1292 and 1293. B) Between 1300 and 1301. C) Between 1492 and 1493. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Between 1292 and 1293. 15. Where did Dante stay while he was in exile? A) Paris. B) Ravenna. C) England. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 16. What is the law that regulates punishments in Hell and Purgatory? A) Law of Opposition. B) Legge of the Paso doble. C) Law of Analogy. D) Law of Retaliation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Law of Retaliation. 17. The Divine Comedy is made up of 3 parts: A) Hell, Purgatory, Heaven. B) Inferno, Purgatorio, Heaven. C) Inferno, Limbo, Paradiso. D) Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso. 18. How does Minos indicate his judgment against each soul? A) With his loud voice. B) With his flashing eyes. C) With his tail. D) With his twitching ears. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) With his tail. 19. Which of the following is NOT true of Dante? A) He was a soldier. B) He was born in Venice, Italy. C) He studied classical literature. D) He was a politician. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He was born in Venice, Italy. 20. According to Dante, which is the most serious sin in hell? A) Gluttony. B) Treachery. C) Avarice. D) Heresy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Treachery. 21. Who was Costanza, whom Dante meets in canto III? A) The mother of Emperor Frederick II. B) The sister of a friend of Dante. C) The queen of Italy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The mother of Emperor Frederick II. 22. What is the rhyme scheme of Divine Comedy? A) Abba bccb cddc deed. B) Aaa bbb ccc ddd. C) Bab cbc ded fdf. D) Aba bcb cdc dcd. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aba bcb cdc dcd. 23. According to Dante's moral reasoning in Inferno, one's experiences in the afterlife are based upon one's ..... while on earth. A) Good intentions. B) Earthly riches. C) Goodness. D) Choices. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Choices. 24. In The Paradiso, on what day do the events occur? A) Easter Sunday. B) Wednesday after Easter. C) Good Friday. D) All Saint's Day. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wednesday after Easter. 25. Who is one of the most sensual figures in the Divine Comedy? A) Beatrice. B) Odysseus. C) Dante. D) Virgil. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Odysseus. 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. A) Steam cloud. B) Pyroclastic Flow. C) Lapilli. D) Lahar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pyroclastic Flow. 27. Why does Dante go on the journey to the afterlife? A) Because he died. B) He won it in a competition. C) Meet your friends. D) You have to learn from it. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) You have to learn from it. 28. The Divine Comedy is written in ENDECASYLABLE TRIPLE. What rhyme and pattern does it use? A) Sonnet, two quatrains and two tercets. B) Chained rhyme ABBA. C) Couplet rhyme AABB. D) Alternating rhyme ABAB. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chained rhyme ABBA. 29. What caused the wind in this layer? A) Minos. B) The weather. C) God. D) Satan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Satan. 30. How many subscribers does dtay knowns have? A) 998k. B) 100k. C) 19k. D) 50k. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 998k. 31. In which way was Dante a precursor of humanism? A) He was uninterested in the poetics of the sublime. B) He rejected the influence of Scholasticism. C) He wrote classical epics with Christian materials. D) He promoted the worship of idolatrous statues from the ancient times. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He wrote classical epics with Christian materials. 32. "So kind and honest it seems" is (choose the correct statements) A) A stanza of a poem. B) A line from a sonnet. C) The title of a lauda. D) The title of a sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The title of a sonnet. 33. In the Divine Comedy Dante personifies ..... A) Faith. B) The humanity. C) The reason. D) All three are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The humanity. 34. How many mouths does Lucifer have? A) 4. B) 3. C) 1. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3. 35. Who are guilty in the lobby of Hell? A) They are unbaptized. B) They are indifferent. C) A harassment. D) Sinners of love. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They are indifferent. 36. What epithet did contemporaries associate with Dante's work? A) Mystery. B) Fantastic. C) Divina. D) Super. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Divina. 37. What is the function of the Primum Mobile? A) It is the home of the angels. B) It symbolizes Dante's distrust of the Church. C) It separates heaven from hell. D) It reminds Dante of his own pride. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is the home of the angels. 38. Dante is important because: A) He made the literary vernacular famous. B) He wrote many works. C) He was a well-known figure in Italian politics. D) It was against the black Guelphs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He made the literary vernacular famous. 39. Dante was born in A) Fiesole. B) Arezzo. C) Firenze. D) Siena. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Firenze. 40. The Divine Comedy has ..... parts. The first one is called ..... A) 6/Paradiso. B) 4/Inferno. C) 3/Purgatorio. D) 3/Inferno. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3/Inferno. 41. In The Purgatorio, what do the steps to the Gate of Purgatory represent? A) The three components of the perfect confession. B) The seven deadly sins. C) The eight beatitudes. D) The seven types of sin that keep people from heaven. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The three components of the perfect confession. 42. 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. 43. 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. 44. 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. 45. 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. 46. Which traitor is devoured, head first, in Satan's mouth? A) Thomas. B) Belzebub. C) Julius Caesar. D) Judas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Judas. 47. Who is Beatrice? A) A sinner from hell. B) Dante's mother. C) Dante's friend. D) The woman Dante is in love with (Donna Angelo). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The woman Dante is in love with (Donna Angelo). 48. From what work did Dante extract certain ideas that he embodied in The Divine Comedy? A) The odyssey. B) The Bible. C) The aeneid. D) Filoctetes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The aeneid. 49. In The Inferno, where is hell physically situated? A) Beneath Jerusalem. B) Beneath Florence. C) Beneath Rome. D) Beneath Cairo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beneath Jerusalem. 50. 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. 51. The quote "women who have intellect of love" is from which text? A) Vita Nuova. B) De Monarchia. C) The Divine Comedy. D) De Vulgari Eloquentia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vita Nuova. 52. 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. 53. 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. 54. ..... is a state of final purification or cleansing, which one may need following death and before entering Heaven. A) Limbo. B) Purgatorio. C) Paradiso. D) Inferno. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Purgatorio. 55. 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. 56. What does Beatrice represent? A) Dante's girlfriend. B) Divine Love. C) Beauty. D) Happiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Divine Love. 57. ..... is angry to see Dante because Dante is still alive. A) Charon. B) Beatrice. C) Minos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Charon. 58. In The Inferno, who defends the city of Dis? A) The sinners in the heretic circle. B) The furies. C) The fallen angels. D) The angelic messengers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The fallen angels. 59. What does the inscription on the gate of Hell mean? A) Only the dead can enter. B) There's still a chance for redemption. C) Get ready to be tortured. D) Once you go in, you can't come back. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Once you go in, you can't come back. 60. What distinguishes Cacciaguida's souls of heaven? A) Spirit lovers. B) Wise spirits. C) Fighters for the faith. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fighters for the faith. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesDante Quiz 1Dante Quiz 3Dante Quiz 4Dante Quiz 5Dante Quiz 6Dante Quiz 7Dante Quiz 8Dante Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books