This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > Dante > Dante – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Dante Quiz 8 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What caused the fish to die in the lake? A) Sulfuric acid leaked into the lake. B) Lava. C) Pyroclastic cloud. D) Steam vents. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sulfuric acid leaked into the lake. 2. THE CONVIVIAL IS WRITTEN IN: A) VULGAR. B) LATINO. C) PARTS IN LATIN AND PARTS IN VOLAGRE. D) FRENCH. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) VULGAR. 3. When did the main character set off? A) March 15, 1848. B) On December 25, 1st century BC. C) 1300 on the night of Maundy Thursday. D) 1320 Thursday morning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1300 on the night of Maundy Thursday. 4. The dark forest in the work: A) It represents life. B) It represents being alone. C) Represents nature. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It represents life. 5. Best steezy kane vid A) Falling off my skateboard part 1 and 2. B) Pick up lines. C) All of em. D) They all good. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All of em. 6. What sin appears in the excerpt? A) They are indifferent. B) Immoderate lovers. C) Excessive consumers. D) Interest collectors. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Immoderate lovers. 7. Between what does man occupy an intermediate position? A) Earth and sky. B) Man and woman. C) Transitory and imperishable. D) Heaven and hell. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transitory and imperishable. 8. What term does Dante use to mean "wounds" ? A) Feggia. B) Tick. C) Fera. D) Cleaves. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Feggia. 9. The Vita Nova is made up of A) Three songs. B) Text and sonnets. C) Text in Greek. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Text and sonnets. 10. What does the number 3 represent? A) The work. B) A number. C) Everything. D) The holy trinity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The holy trinity. 11. In The Inferno, how is heresy defined? A) As the rejection free will. B) As the denial of the soul's immortality. C) As the choiceof lust over love. D) As the decision to indulge in various sins. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) As the denial of the soul's immortality. 12. What language was Dante's Inferno written in? A) French. B) Latin. C) Italian. D) English. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Italian. 13. Which number forms the basis of the work's structure? A) 10. B) 3. C) 1. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3. 14. This circle is where the unbaptized and pagans spend eternity. A) Circle 7. B) Circle 1. C) Circle 3. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Circle 1. 15. What geographic feature makes up Circle 8? A) Broken Rocks (from Christ's death). B) River of Blood. C) Malabolgia. D) Frozen River. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Malabolgia. 16. Because in canto I it seems to Dante that another sun has been added to the sun A) Because it's going up. B) Because in Paradise there is more light. C) Because the Sun represents God. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because it's going up. 17. How many panties does hell have? A) . B) . C) . D) . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) . 18. In which circle of hell are Paolo and Francesca placed? A) Greedy. B) Heretics. C) Lustful. D) I was lazy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lustful. 19. In 1302 Dante on mandate in: A) Travel. B) Vatican. C) Exile. D) Convent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exile. 20. Tanto Gentile e Tanto Onesta Pare is a poem written by: A) Dante Alighieri. B) Giovanni Boccaccio. C) Cecco Angiolieri. D) Marco Polo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dante Alighieri. 21. Why does Virgil only show Dante Hell and Purgatory? A) Because Paradise cannot be experienced. B) For he died a heathen. C) Dante wants to be with his love. D) Because he is the lord of the underworld. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) For he died a heathen. 22. Select the correct answer Virgilio personifies a. A) The humanity. B) The reason. C) Faith. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The reason. 23. Dante's remains are found at A) Roma. B) Firenze. C) Arezzo. D) Ravenna. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ravenna. 24. What episode of the chant is reproduced in the picture? A) Virgil tames the three beasts that threaten Dante. B) Dante is impeded on his way by the three wild beasts. C) Virgil invites Dante not to fear fairs and to join him. D) The prophecy of the hound who hunts the three wild beasts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dante is impeded on his way by the three wild beasts. 25. Why is there a reference to Narcissus in Canto III? A) Because Dante mistakes souls for reflections. B) Because in heaven everyone loves themselves. C) Because narcissism is punished there. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because Dante mistakes souls for reflections. 26. Once the mountain began to erupt, earthquakes increased, ash filled the air and A) The heat melted the surrounding snow and ice causing a lahar to form. B) Caused the animals to move towards the mountain. C) Caused the team to leave right away. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The heat melted the surrounding snow and ice causing a lahar to form. 27. What language is the Decameron written in? A) Italian. B) Vulgar. C) Latino. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vulgar. 28. What is the definition of debauchery? A) Difficult to achieve. B) Shaking and quivering. C) One who hoards wealth. D) Excessively indulging in pleasure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Excessively indulging in pleasure. 29. The first part of the Divine Comedy is called ..... and is about Dante's journey through hell. A) Inferno. B) Purgatorio. C) Paradiso. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inferno. 30. What other relative of Constance (canto III), has Dante already met? A) His son Frederick II. B) His nephew Manfredi. C) His brother Forese. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His nephew Manfredi. 31. What type of genre is Dante's Inferno? A) Novel. B) Play. C) Non-fiction. D) Epic poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epic poem. 32. Reread paragraph 21. Ari's mother's statement in the paragraph is meant to point out A) Her confusion about Ari's unhappiness. B) The unlikelihood of Ari's success. C) Her displeasure with Ari's attitude. D) The contradictions in Ari's thinking. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The contradictions in Ari's thinking. 33. Who married Dante at twenty? A) Gemma Donati. B) Completed Damsel. C) Antonia Cavalcanti. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gemma Donati. 34. Original title of the work: A) Scripture. B) Commedia. C) Gospel. D) Sacred poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Commedia. 35. What does it say? A) The imaginary journey made by Dante on April 8, 1400. B) The imaginary journey made by Virgil on April 8, 1300. C) The imaginary journey made by Dante on May 8, 1300. D) The imaginary journey made by Dante on April 8, 1300. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The imaginary journey made by Dante on April 8, 1300. 36. Where does Dante die? A) Lucca. B) Firenze. C) Verona. D) Ravenna. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ravenna. 37. What is at the gates of hell? A) "Entry is free, exit is uncertain. ". B) "He who digs a pit for others falls into it himself. C) "Welcome home.". D) "Whoever enters here, abandon all hope. ". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "Whoever enters here, abandon all hope. ". 38. THE VULGAR ILLUSTRATE IN THE THEORIZATION OF DE VULGARI ELOQUENTIA CAN TREAT A) ONLY LOVE THEMES. B) ALL TOPICS, FROM COMEDY TO PHILOSOPHICAL. C) ONLY DIFFERENT THEMES AND FORMS. D) LOW TOPICS ONLY. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ALL TOPICS, FROM COMEDY TO PHILOSOPHICAL. 39. In which language is the Divine Comedy written? A) Sicilian vernacular. B) Florentine vernacular. C) The language of notaries. D) Latino. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Florentine vernacular. 40. What object may have created the signature shape of the Pacific Islanders houses A) European Affect. B) Canoe. C) The Uniquely Shaped Fish That Swim Around The Area. D) An Upside-Down Tasa ( The Cap of a Latte Stone). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Canoe. 41. The people who live here have committed crimes, but they still have hope that they will go to Paradise: A) Hell. B) Purgatory. C) Tomato. D) Life. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Purgatory. 42. What other departing from Piccarda has Dante already met? A) Brother Corso. B) Forese brother. C) Her husband Gianciotto. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Forese brother. 43. What was the name of Dante Alighieri's one true love? A) Gianna. B) Gemma. C) Amelia. D) Beatrice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Beatrice. 44. Why does Virgil reside in Limbo? A) He is a Pagan born before Christianity. B) He committed the sin of lust. C) Dante considers him a betrayer. D) He was a fallen demon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He is a Pagan born before Christianity. 45. What principle guided God in creating Hell? A) The harmony. B) The truth. C) The perfection. D) The revenge. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The truth. 46. Which of the following is the theme of De Vulgari Eloquentia? A) The historical evolution of language. B) The language of different literary genres. C) The difference between grammar and language. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 47. Who decided to add the adjective Divine to the title "The Comedy" ? A) Dante Alighieri. B) Hugh Foscolo. C) Boccaccio. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Boccaccio. 48. Who are the sinners Dante talks to in the second circle of hell? A) Romeo & Juliet. B) Francesca da Rimini & Paolo Malatesta. C) Mark Antony & Cleopatra. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Francesca da Rimini & Paolo Malatesta. 49. What does "the straight path" allegorically represent? A) The way of good. B) The way to well-being. C) The way of abundance. D) The straight way. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The way of good. 50. The dark forest is an allegory: A) Of alienation. B) Of inner malaise. C) Of sin. D) About boredom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Of sin. 51. The levels of purgatory are associated with which religious concept? A) The planets. B) The seven sacraments. C) The seven deadly sins. D) The Augustan calendar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The seven deadly sins. 52. Dante, at the end of the Vita Nuova promises not to write until he is ready to A) I will say of her what has never been said of any woman. B) Have an admirable vision of my lady who greets others. C) Speak of the three otherworldly realms, and in particular of Paradise. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I will say of her what has never been said of any woman. 53. When Virgil and Dante reach the innermost layer of inferno, who do they see? A) Satan. B) The Virgin Mary. C) The angel of death. D) Beatrice waiting to take them to heaven. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Satan. 54. How does Dante die? A) Over. B) Of malaria. C) Of dysentery. D) Of heart attack. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Of malaria. 55. IN WHICH WORK DOES DANTE EXPRESS HIS CONCEPT OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE EMPIRE AND THE PAPATY, AS WELL AS IN THE DIVINE COMEDY? A) NEW LIFE. B) OF MONARCHY. C) CONVIVIAL. D) ON VULGAR SPEECH. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) OF MONARCHY. 56. What is Paolo and Francesca's crime? A) A traitor to his benefactor. B) A fraud they trusted. C) The culprit of love. D) Greed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The culprit of love. 57. How are the verses of the Divine Comedy? A) Enjambment. B) Hendecasyllables. C) Chained up. D) Dodecasillabi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hendecasyllables. 58. Identify the reference being made by the pronoun:This is the place I told you to expect. A) Virgil, Dante. B) Charon, Virgil. C) God, Dante. D) Dante, Virgil. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Virgil, Dante. 59. Canto VI of Paradise is the only one A) Devoted to politics. B) Which speaks of the sky of Mercury. C) Entirely occupied by the speech of a character. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Entirely occupied by the speech of a character. 60. The phrase "where the sun is silent" is an example of which poetic device? A) Allegory. B) Metonymy. C) Synesthesia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Synesthesia. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesDante Quiz 1Dante Quiz 2Dante Quiz 3Dante Quiz 4Dante Quiz 5Dante Quiz 6Dante Quiz 7Dante Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books