This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > Dante > Dante – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Dante Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In addition to the Divine Comedy, what other important work did Dante write? A) The Decameron. B) The New Life. C) A lauda. D) The Songwriter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The New Life. 2. Which sinners are punished with being caught in a whirlwind because they had no control of their bodies? A) Pagans. B) Lustful. C) Opportunists. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lustful. 3. The adjective divine was added by ..... A) Victor Alfieri. B) Giovanni Boccaccio. C) Cecco Angiolieri. D) Dante Alighieri. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Giovanni Boccaccio. 4. How many levels of Hell are there? A) 8. B) 9. C) 34. D) 33. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 9. 5. THE APSIN OF HELL PUSHES TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, WHERE DANTE IMAGINED HIM ..... A) CARONTE. B) DAD. C) LUCIFER. D) DOWN FROM. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) LUCIFER. 6. Who added the adjective "divina" to the work? A) Boccaccio. B) Dante. C) Virgil. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Boccaccio. 7. Select the correct answerWho did you love and what did you exalt as the supreme symbol of divine grace? A) Beatriz. B) Gemma. C) His mother. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beatriz. 8. In this circle, you would be constantly blown back and forth never able to get that which you desire. A) Circle 3. B) Circle 2. C) Circle 6. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Circle 2. 9. Who did you meet? A) Odysseus. B) Virgil and Odysseus. C) Beatrice, Virgil, Odysseus. D) Beatrice, Virgil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beatrice, Virgil, Odysseus. 10. In The Paradiso, how does Dante's journey through heaven end? A) With his return to hell. B) With his exclusion from purgatory. C) With his death. D) With a vision of the Trinity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) With a vision of the Trinity. 11. In The Inferno, how does his journey end? A) He returns to earth. B) He emerges in Paradise. C) He escapes into Purgatory. D) He remains in hell. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He escapes into Purgatory. 12. According to Dr. Mazzotta, what do Dante's planets represent? A) The liberal arts. B) The deadly sins. C) The historical religious eras. D) The sacraments. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The liberal arts. 13. In The Purgatorio, how does Dante depict the punishment of the proud penitents? A) They are punished with whips and bridles. B) They are forced to carry heavy rocks on their backs. C) They have their eyes sewn shut with wire. D) They must walk through thick smoke. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They are forced to carry heavy rocks on their backs. 14. What is Justinian's great legacy to the world? A) Having converted the Roman Empire. B) Having completed the first crusade. C) The body of civil law. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The body of civil law. 15. Who is placed in the center of the earth? A) THE FURIA. B) THE MINOTAUR. C) LUCIFER. D) MINOS. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) LUCIFER. 16. What event in 1300 eventually tore Dante away from his beloved city of Florence? A) His political party was overthrown. B) His city was detroyed by fire. C) He was driven out by the plague. D) He got married. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His political party was overthrown. 17. What is Odysseus' crime? A) A traitor to his benefactor. B) The culprit of love. C) Greed. D) A fraud they trusted. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A fraud they trusted. 18. What do the three fairs (beasts) allegorically represent for the man-Dante? A) They represent three sins. B) They represent three temptations. C) They represent three pastimes. D) They represent three biases. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They represent three sins. 19. Dante's greatest work was written in ..... A) Latin. B) Greek. C) Italian. D) English. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Italian. 20. What ts the robots name A) Dante. B) Atom. C) Real steal. D) Zeuas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Atom. 21. Who is the ferryman? A) Aeneid. B) Acheron. C) Styx. D) Charon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Charon. 22. What is one thing Ari and Dante don't have in common about their relationships with their fathers? A) They both kiss when they greet their kids. B) They both are Mexican American. C) They both are still married. D) They both work full time. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They both kiss when they greet their kids. 23. What does Ari's comment in paragraph 5 MAINLY suggest? A) He would like to have more control over his choices. B) He would like to have more confidence in himself. C) He feels bored by his surroundings. D) He feels distant from his friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He would like to have more control over his choices. 24. In which of the following ways was Dante involved in the Italian politics of his time? A) He held several positions in the local government. B) He conducted diplomatic missions. C) He literally fought at the Battle of Campaldino. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 25. What year was Dante Alighieri born? A) 1245. B) 1238. C) 1234. D) 1265. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1265. 26. The worst sins are located at the ..... of hell. A) Outsides. B) Center. C) Bottom. D) Top. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bottom. 27. A practical judgment of reason that helps a person decide the goodness or sinfulness of an action or attitude A) Intellectual. B) To recall. C) Squeaky. D) Conscience. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conscience. 28. Where else in Dante's universe can we find souls who have an honorable nomination? A) In Limbo. B) In the sixth canto of the Inferno. C) In the song of Pier delle Vigne. D) In the city of Dis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In Limbo. 29. Who is Beatrice for Dante? A) His queen. B) The angelic woman. C) The daughter. D) The wife. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The angelic woman. 30. What happens to sinners who go to see Minos? A) He judges them. B) He tortures them. C) He whips them. D) He punishes them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He judges them. 31. The judge of the infernal regions in Dante's Divine Comedy is ..... and is in the ..... A) Minos-hell. B) Cato-paradise. C) Lucifer-hell. D) Cerbero-hell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Minos-hell. 32. Which part of the Divine Play do you see in the picture? A) Tomato. B) Hell. C) Purgatory. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tomato. 33. At the beginning of the story, Dante finds himself lost in a? A) Dark wood. B) Blinding storm. C) Burning plain. D) Violent sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dark wood. 34. Where is hell located? A) Under Rome. B) In the space. C) Under Jerusalem. D) It is not specified. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Under Jerusalem. 35. How many fairs do we meet in the first canto? A) Three. B) None. C) Quattro. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Three. 36. Virgil, Dante's guide in hell, what does he represent? A) THE REASON. B) THE STATE. C) THE VALUE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION. D) FAITH. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) THE REASON. 37. In The Inferno, which three characters are located in the deepest circle of hell? A) Guinevere, Dido, and Francesca. B) Homer, Dante, and Virgil. C) Brutus, Cassius, and Judas. D) Pope Nicholas, Pope Boniface, and Pope Clement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brutus, Cassius, and Judas. 38. The she-wolf represents what type of sin? A) Selfish. B) Violent. C) Malicious. D) Incontinence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Incontinence. 39. Which of the following characters appears in The Purgatorio? A) Sapia. B) Cato. C) Sordello. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 40. WHAT DOES THE LION SYMBOLIZE IN DANTE'S WORK? A) THE GREED. B) THE FORCE. C) THE ARROGANCE. D) THE SIN. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) THE ARROGANCE. 41. What famous Palace bases its architecture on The Divine Comedy? A) Pizzurno Palace. B) Barolo palace. C) San Miguel Palace. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Barolo palace. 42. Who was Dante's first biographer? A) Petrarch. B) Boccaccio. C) Janus Pannonius. D) Virgil. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Boccaccio. 43. What is the name with which Dante greets Brunetto Latini? A) Don. B) To be. C) Duca. D) Maestro. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To be. 44. In the sentence "I have eaten" what is the subject? A) Ate. B) Ate. C) Io. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Io. 45. What is the definition of writhes? A) To twist and turn in agony. B) An excessive supply of goods. C) Difficult to achieve. D) Shaking and quivering. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To twist and turn in agony. 46. What did Ari's father surprisingly study before the military? A) Welding. B) Dance. C) Art. D) Engineering. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Art. 47. How long did Virgil follow him? A) Until Odysseus. B) Purgatory-Paradise. C) To the heavens. D) Hell-Purgatory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hell-Purgatory. 48. Who is in the mouth of Satan? A) Hitler, Stalin, Macbeth. B) Judas, Brutus, Cassius. C) Hades, Judas, Cassius. D) Ceasar, Judas, Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Judas, Brutus, Cassius. 49. The book Inferno by Dan Browne bases its plot on the painting Map of Hell, who is the author? A) Miguel Angel. B) Leonardo. C) Botticelli. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Botticelli. 50. When does Dante's journey to the afterlife take place? A) In 1300. B) In 1304. C) In 1321. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In 1300. 51. Who can be found in the deepest pit of hell? A) Heretics. B) Traitors. C) They are extravagant in money. D) They are immoderate in love. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Traitors. 52. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING WORKS BY DANTE CONSISTS OF A COLLECTION OF PROSE AND POEMS IN THE FLORENTINE VERNATURE? A) CONVIVIAL. B) OF MONARCHY. C) ON VULGAR SPEECH. D) NEW LIFE. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) NEW LIFE. 53. How is Lucifer represented? A) With three mouths. B) Without eyes. C) With three eyes. D) With six arms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) With three mouths. 54. What assignment did he obtain, in 1300, in the Municipality of Florence? A) In the former. B) Authority. C) Keeper. D) Head of the city militia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In the former. 55. Dante was ..... because of his political beliefs. A) Synthesized. B) Penitent. C) Exiled. D) Sent on an epic journey. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exiled. 56. What is Dante most known for? A) The Divine Comedy. B) The New Life. C) De Monarchia. D) Le Rime. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Divine Comedy. 57. The quote "take then henceforth thy pleasure for guide" comes from which text? A) Vita Nuova. B) The Divine Comedy. C) The Convivio. D) De Vulgari Eloquentia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Divine Comedy. 58. In The Inferno, Cerberus is the protector of which circle of hell? A) The circle of treachery. B) The circle of heresy. C) The circle of gluttony. D) The circle of lust. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The circle of gluttony. 59. You could tell the girl was nervous about speaking in front of the class because of her ..... voice and hands. A) Gaunt. B) Elusive. C) Tremulous. D) Writhing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tremulous. 60. Dante begins writing the Commedia in A) 1304. B) 1301. C) 1321. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1304. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesDante Quiz 1Dante Quiz 2Dante Quiz 3Dante Quiz 5Dante Quiz 6Dante Quiz 7Dante Quiz 8Dante Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books