This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > Dante > Dante – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Dante Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When did Dante Alighieri live? A) 1265-1321. B) 1465-1490. C) 1150-1290. D) 1520-1590. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1265-1321. 2. What are the names of the stanzas that make up the structure of the work? A) Hexameter. B) Quintet. C) Dearest. D) Quartet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dearest. 3. How many TOTAL songs does the DIVINE COMEDY consist of? A) 235. B) 33. C) 79. D) 100. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 100. 4. How are Dante and Virgil feeling when Canto 9 begins? A) Happy. B) Excited. C) Angry. D) Afraid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Afraid. 5. In chp 5 what poet does Ari read? A) William Shakespeare. B) Walt Whitman. C) William Carlos William. D) Maya Angelou. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Carlos William. 6. The Inferno is made up of 34 ..... (kind of like chapters). A) Stanzas. B) Cantos. C) Poems. D) Trinity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cantos. 7. What did the main character do? A) Only Hell. B) Hell and Purgatory. C) Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. D) Purgatory and Paradise. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. 8. What is the main theme of Petrarch's Canzoniere? A) Friendship. B) The religion. C) The love. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The love. 9. How old is Ari at the start of the book? A) 16. B) 14. C) 15. D) 17. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 15. 10. Where was Dante Alighieri born? A) Roma. B) Berlin. C) Milan. D) Florence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Florence. 11. What is inscribed on the gate of hell? A) Vexilla regis prodeunt Inferni. B) Go forth the banners of the gates of hell. C) Abandon faith all ye who enter here. D) Abandon hope all ye who enter here. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Abandon hope all ye who enter here. 12. Dante Alighieri was born in A) Florence.Ravenna. B) Bella. Bellincioni. C) Italy .Florentine. D) Rome Italy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Florence.Ravenna. 13. In The Purgatorio, which of the following characters does Dante dream about? A) Rachel and Leah. B) Brutus and Cassius. C) Dido and Aeneas. D) Pope Boniface and Pope Clement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rachel and Leah. 14. How does Ari feel about himself and his life in general at the start of the book? A) Confused. B) Depressed. C) Enthusiastic. D) Awesome. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Depressed. 15. CENTRAL THEME OF THE ENEID: A) LAZIO FOUNDATION. B) FOUNDING OF ROME. C) CARTAGO FOUNDATION. D) OGGIA FOUNDATION. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FOUNDING OF ROME. 16. Which of the following qualifies as afterlife? A) Theology. B) Death. C) Purgatory. D) Penitent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Purgatory. 17. According to Dante, what place is at the top of his purgatory? A) The Dark Wood. B) The circles of Hell. C) The Garden of Eden. D) The Gate to Limbo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Garden of Eden. 18. The deepest ring of hell is covered in ..... A) Ice. B) Flames. C) Brimstone. D) Boiling Pitch. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ice. 19. A quale movimento letterario apparteneva? A) Al movimento siciliano. B) Allo Stil Novo. C) Alla letteratura cortese. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allo Stil Novo. 20. When does the Divine Comedy begin and end? A) Christmas eve-New Year's day. B) Summer vacation. C) 40 days of Lent. D) Good Friday-Easter morning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Good Friday-Easter morning. 21. In 1300 Dante becomes A) White Guelph. B) Black Guelph. C) In the former. D) Mayor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the former. 22. Which of the following is the theme of Dante's Vita Nuova? A) His dislike of the vernacular language. B) His opposition to the separation of Church and State. C) His love for Beatrice. D) His experiences in exile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His love for Beatrice. 23. What is the definition of pandemonium? A) Expression of sorrow. B) To match exactly. C) To turn in agony. D) Full of disorder. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Full of disorder. 24. In The Inferno, which historical character is found in Satan's mouth? A) Pope Boniface. B) Dido. C) Beatrice. D) Judas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Judas. 25. Where Dante's tomb is located A) Mantua. B) Ravenna. C) Roma. D) Firenze. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ravenna. 26. What is Vexilla Regis prodeunt Inferni a play on? A) A political party. B) A poem by Virgil. C) A Bible verse. D) A Latin hymn. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A Latin hymn. 27. Dante Alighieri and Guido Cavalcanti were friends and both belonged to the poetic movement ..... A) Sicilian school. B) Dolce stil new. C) Tuscan realism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dolce stil new. 28. The 9th ring of hell is dedicated to the worst sinners which are the ..... A) Wrathful. B) Gluttonous. C) Lustful. D) Treacherous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Treacherous. 29. What does the image represent? A) Heaven. B) The hell. C) Purgatory. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Purgatory. 30. In The Purgatorio, the opening of the text resembles which type of poem? A) Sonnet. B) Aubade. C) Elegy. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aubade. 31. Each part of the Inferno has 33 ..... (kind of like chapters). A) Poems. B) Cantos. C) Stanzas. D) Trinity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cantos. 32. Where was Dante born? A) Florence, Italy. B) Ravenna, Italy. C) Bologna, Italy. D) Rome, Italy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Florence, Italy. 33. DANTE'S VERNABILITY WORKS ARE: A) RIME, NOVA LIFE, CONVIVIO. B) LIVING, ON VULGAR SPEECH. C) ON VULGAR SPEECH OF MONARCHY. D) MONARCHY AND CONVIVIAL. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) RIME, NOVA LIFE, CONVIVIO. 34. In 1980, Mt. St. Helens erupted and people died because they would not evacuate. Who played this part in the Dante's Peak. A) Paul. B) Rachel. C) Ruth. D) Harry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ruth. 35. In which verse is the Divine Comedy written? A) ENDECASYLABLE TRIPLE. B) IAMBIC QUARTENS. C) TRACKS OF EXAMETERS. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ENDECASYLABLE TRIPLE. 36. Who is the dedicatee of the Paradiso, which is praised in canto XVII? A) Cangrande della Scala. B) Jacob of Polenta. C) Justinian. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cangrande della Scala. 37. Cameron was ..... severely when he got into trouble at school again. A) Writhed. B) Reprimanded. C) Dexterously. D) Contrapasso. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reprimanded. 38. In The Paradiso, which class of people does Dante place on the moon? A) Those with the most constancy of characters. B) The proud. C) The best emperors and rulers. D) The souls of those who abandoned their vows. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The souls of those who abandoned their vows. 39. Which is NOT one of the three beasts of wordliness in Canto I? A) Lion. B) Leopard. C) Wolf. D) Tiger. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tiger. 40. Which of the following is a common element of vision literature? A) The themes usually involve life after death. B) A character's body is separated from his soul. C) A guide leads the narrator on a spiritual journey. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 41. Who does Dante meet on his journey? A) Jesus Christ. B) Paolo is Francesca. C) Bonnie is Clyde. D) Giacomo Puccini. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paolo is Francesca. 42. What is the name of the poetic movement that Dante cultivated? A) Beauty Style. B) Dolce stil new. C) The Style of the New Life. D) The New Style of the Time. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dolce stil new. 43. Who is in the depths of Hell? A) Judas. B) Hitler. C) Lucifer. D) The emperor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lucifer. 44. Which historical figure appears in the circle of lust? A) Alberigo. B) Francesca. C) Ciacco. D) Judas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Francesca. 45. Politics and betrayal led to Dante's ..... A) Banishment. B) Death. C) Imprisonment. D) Revenge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Banishment. 46. Why did Dante go to the afterlife? A) He was bored. B) Because he did very bad things in his life. C) To try your luck. D) To seek the happiness of earthly and eternal life. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To seek the happiness of earthly and eternal life. 47. The gate that leads into hell reads "All ..... abandon ye who enter here" A) Love. B) Hatred. C) Sorrow. D) Hope. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hope. 48. According to Dante, when is it most appropriate to use Latin? A) In written literature. B) In everyday speech. C) In love poetry. D) In essays. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In essays. 49. Dante Alighieri lives A) 20 years. B) 50 years. C) 8 years. D) 56 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 56 years. 50. Which demon does Dante encounter in the 4th Circle? A) Plutus. B) Santa. C) Plate. D) Pluto. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plutus. 51. The "De monarchia" is a A) Political treatise in three books. B) Political treatise in two books, the first on the papacy, the second on the empire. C) Encyclopedic treatise. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Political treatise in three books. 52. Which rhetorical figure does Dante make extensive use of in Paradise? A) Similitude. B) Oxymoron. C) Analogy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Analogy. 53. How do the souls get assigned a certain circle? A) Satan. B) Centaur. C) Minos. D) The harpies fly them there. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Minos. 54. Dante's politics A) It is on the side of the people. B) Claims Charles of Valois. C) It is on the side of the nobility. D) Holds Boniface VIII. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is on the side of the people. 55. In which year does Dante's imaginary journey take place? A) In 1290, the year of the death of his beloved Beatrice. B) In 1300, the year of the Jubilee. C) In 1302, the year of Dante's exile. D) In 1265, the year of Dante's birth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In 1300, the year of the Jubilee. 56. In De Monarchia, what language does Dante primarily use? A) Tuscan. B) English. C) Latin. D) Italian. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Latin. 57. What faction was Dante Alighieri part of? A) Ghibellines. B) White Guelphs. C) Black Guelphs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) White Guelphs. 58. What is the more precise meaning of the expression "spotted ''? A) Seen with effort. B) Kneeling. C) Greeted. D) Viewed from afar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Seen with effort. 59. You are at a party and overhear someone say "That FIT is fire!" "FIT" is an example of ..... A) Vernacular. B) Dialect. C) Racial entomology. D) Calcification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vernacular. 60. Who was the silent companion in the play? A) Diomedes. 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