This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Authors > Dante > Dante – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Dante Quiz 9 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. According to Dr. Mazzotta, what trait distinguishes Dante's purgatory from his hell? A) Purgatory is a place of redemptive intervention. B) Purgatory includes references to time. C) Purgatory is less rooted in the human, natural world. D) Purgatory is less future-oriented. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Purgatory includes references to time. 2. What is the meaning of the word Purgatory? A) A flood. B) Hail. C) Brimstone. D) Purgatory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Purgatory. 3. Of how many circles is the Hell of the Divine Comedy made up? A) 9. B) 6. C) 8. D) 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 9. 4. THE DIVINE COMEDY IS OF CHARACTER A) RELIGIOUS. B) ANONYMOUS. C) SUBJECTIVE. D) ALLEGORICAL. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) ALLEGORICAL. 5. Who is revealed to be the greatest sinner? A) Brutus. B) Pope Boniface the IV. C) Cassius. D) Judas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Judas. 6. What is Dante's family background? A) Greek. B) Latin. C) Italian. D) Roman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Latin. 7. How does the relationship between Virgil and Dante develop and change? A) It declines after an argument. B) It deepens. C) The angle Lucifer splits them apart by force. D) It does not change. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It deepens. 8. How to say volume A) Kool. B) Cool. C) Volume. D) Vool. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Volume. 9. What is written on the gates of Hell? A) "This is the entrance to Hell.". B) "Escape from here is impossible.". C) "You will suffer and be punished here.". D) "Whoever enters here, abandon all hope". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "Whoever enters here, abandon all hope". 10. Who is the best youtuber A) Danter234. B) Tseries. C) Vegetta. D) Pewdiepie. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vegetta. 11. The mask that he wore for the Halloween party was so ..... it scared people as he walked in the room. A) Grotesque. B) Depravity. C) Pandemonium. D) Tremulous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Grotesque. 12. Who is "Marsias" , quoted in Canto I A) A satyr who challenged Apollo. B) The Guardian of Paradise. C) An angel. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A satyr who challenged Apollo. 13. What is the name of the three-part epic poem that Dante wrote during his exile? A) The Aeneid. B) The Eternal Three. C) The Epic Trio. D) The Divine Comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Divine Comedy. 14. In The Inferno, his journey starts on which holiday? A) Christmas. B) All Saint's Day. C) All Soul's Day. D) Good Friday. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Good Friday. 15. Someone from Boston might describe you as "smaht" meaning you are intelligent. This is an example of ..... A) Vernacular. B) Afterlife. C) Dialect. D) Anthropology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dialect. 16. The CONVIVIO is written: A) In the vernacular so that everyone could read it and thus approach the culture of the learned. B) In Latin because it is a work with high content. C) In the vernacular because it is the now widespread language. D) In Latin as the title denotes. s. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In the vernacular so that everyone could read it and thus approach the culture of the learned. 17. ..... guides Dante through the inferno and purgatory. A) God. B) Virgin Mary. C) Virgil. D) Beatrice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Virgil. 18. The author tries to equate depression with ..... A) Anger. B) Darkness. C) Anxiety. D) Fear. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Darkness. 19. Where is his birthplace A) Japan. B) Canada. C) Africa. D) United states. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) United states. 20. What is Circle 4 home to? A) Thieves. B) Wrathful and Sullen. C) Hoarders and Wasters. D) Satan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hoarders and Wasters. 21. Those greedy in life will build some muscle spending eternity here. A) Circle 8. B) Circle 6. C) Circle 4. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Circle 4. 22. What term describes a wasteful person or thing? A) Wrathful. B) Sullen. C) Sinner. D) Waster. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Waster. 23. The "De monarchia" was written: A) Between 1313 and 1318. B) Between 1200 and 1300. C) Between 1292 and 11 1293. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Between 1313 and 1318. 24. Because she could not go to the party with her friends, she cried with ..... A) Depravity. B) Retribution. C) Lamentations. D) Pandemonium. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lamentations. 25. As a poet he was a representative: A) Of religious poetry. B) Of the Sicilian Poetic School. C) Of the Sweet Stil Novo. D) Of troubadour poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Of the Sweet Stil Novo. 26. The first trial against Dante dates back to A) 1303. B) 1302. C) 1301. D) 1304. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1302. 27. In the fragmentation of Italian politics, which side did Dante belong to? A) Neri. B) Pontifical. C) Ghibelino. D) Guelphs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Guelphs. 28. Dante's mention of the "sound of the angelic trumpet" refers to which religious event? A) Holy Communion. B) The Annunciation. C) Baptism. D) The Last Judgment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Last Judgment. 29. The rings of hell in Dante's vision A) Sinners arranged in the chronological order of their lives. B) Are arranged in order in which the sins were committed in time. C) Contain only the contemporaries of Dante. D) Are arranged in degrees of the evil of the sin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Are arranged in degrees of the evil of the sin. 30. Dante created a Hell that depicted ..... circles. A) 10. B) 9. C) 7. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 9. 31. What language did Dante write his poetry in? A) English. B) Italian. C) French. D) Latin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Italian. 32. WHAT DOES CONVIVIO MEAN? A) A METAPHORICAL BANQUET WHERE THE TOPICS OF KNOWLEDGE ARE SERVED TO GUESTS. B) A BANQUET WHERE SONGS ARE SINGED. C) A BANQUET WHERE PHILOSOPHY IS DISCUSSED. D) A BANQUET IN WHICH MATTERS OF LOVE ARE DISCUSSED. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A METAPHORICAL BANQUET WHERE THE TOPICS OF KNOWLEDGE ARE SERVED TO GUESTS. 33. What is a novella? A) A story. B) A long poem. C) A news. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A story. 34. Who is in the sky of the Moon? A) Those who have not fulfilled the vows. B) Those who have been melancholy. C) Loving spirits. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Those who have not fulfilled the vows. 35. Where do we find the verse: "Abandon all hope, you who enter" ? A) On the gate of Hell. B) In the words of Charon. C) In the tale of Ulysses. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) On the gate of Hell. 36. In The Inferno, who initially leads him around hell? A) Judas. B) Homer. C) Saint Augustine. D) Virgil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Virgil. 37. Dante's one true love became his ..... A) Muse. B) Stepmother. C) Wife. D) Enemy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Muse. 38. What is allegory? A) A metaphor. B) A figure of speech that indicates a meaning other than the literal one. s. C) A rhetorical figure that indicates the approach of two terms that refer to different senses. D) A symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A figure of speech that indicates a meaning other than the literal one. s. 39. Which of the following is NOT a "virtuous pagan" living in the first circle? A) Homer. B) Ovid. C) Shakespeare. D) Virgil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shakespeare. 40. How did Dante lose the bone? A) He buried it and couldn't find it. B) Another dog took it. C) A skeleton took it. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A skeleton took it. 41. What is tremulous? A) The coming together from different places. B) Suffering from hunger. C) Shaking or quivering. D) Twisting and turning in agony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shaking or quivering. 42. No one wanted to sit next to her in class because of her ..... behavior. A) Arduous. B) Despicable. C) Clambered. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Despicable. 43. How many cantos is the work divided into? A) 6. B) 3. C) 10. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3. 44. Who is the judge of Hell? A) Minos. B) Paolo. C) Cerberus. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Minos. 45. To say perspective in a different form is ..... A) Point of view. B) Intellectual. C) Lens. D) Premise. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lens. 46. In which church in Florence is Dante's funeral monument located? A) Santa Maria Novella. B) Duomo. C) San Damiano. D) Holy Cross. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Holy Cross. 47. Circle 9 is covered in A) Fire. B) Snickers. C) Ice. D) Darkness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ice. 48. You'll find yourself in this circle if you overindulge in food, drink, and other worldly pleasures. A) Circle 3. B) Circle 9. C) Circle 5. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Circle 3. 49. According to Dante, the worst of all sins is ..... A) Treachery. B) Fraud. C) Violence. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Treachery. 50. What age of man does Dante refer to, with the expression "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita" ? A) 20 years. B) The year of death. C) The year of the wedding. D) 35 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 35 years. 51. Dante's journey lasts ..... days. A) 3. B) 10. C) 5. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3. 52. In the Comedy Dante meets Beatrice A) In Paradiso. B) In the earthly paradise. C) On Purgatory beach. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In the earthly paradise. 53. His career comes to a halt as he is accused of A) Corruption. B) Homocide. C) Theft. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Corruption. 54. What is the purpose of Canto I? A) To show the first sinners. B) To explain the initial conflict. C) To clarify the need for a savior. D) To clarify who Satan is. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To explain the initial conflict. 55. Who leads Dante to Heaven? A) Melinda. B) Giovanna. C) Beatrice. D) Donatella. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beatrice. 56. Which qualities do the fixed stars in paradise represent? A) Faith, hope, and love. B) Faith, wisdom, and love. C) Love, compassion, and pride. D) Justice, temperance, and faith. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Faith, hope, and love. 57. Dante was the diminutive of what name? A) Dantesque. B) During. C) Donato. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) During. 58. THE CENTRAL THEME OF THE MIDDLE AGES WAS: A) LIFE. B) GOD. C) THE SCIENCE. D) DEATH. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) GOD. 59. Who is eaten by Lucifer? A) Brutus, Cassius and Judas. B) Brutus, Julius Caesar and Attila. C) Bruto, Paolo and Francesca. D) Judas, Count Ugolino, Virgil. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brutus, Cassius and Judas. 60. What is the definition of miser? A) One who hoards wealth. B) The coming together from different places. C) Match or almost agree exactly. D) The expression of grief. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One who hoards wealth. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesDante Quiz 1Dante Quiz 2Dante Quiz 3Dante Quiz 4Dante Quiz 5Dante Quiz 6Dante Quiz 7Dante Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books