Dante's Inferno

Question 1

What are the 3 beasts Dante meets in the dark woods?

Answer 1

leopard, lion, she-wolf

Question 2

What does the leopard in the dark woods represent?

Answer 2

fraudulence

Question 3

What does the lion in the dark woods represent?

Answer 3

violence

Question 4

What does the she-wolf in the dark woods represent?

Answer 4

discontent

Question 5

Who are the three ladies of heaven who care for Dante?

Answer 5

Virgin Mary, St. Lucia, Beatrice

Question 6

What is the punishment for those who did not commit to God?

Answer 6

They walk on worms behind a banner being stung by flies and wasps.

Question 7

Who is the demon who who carries Virgil and Dante across the river Acheron on his boat?

Answer 7

Charon

Question 8

Who is being punished in the ante-inferno?

Answer 8

those who neither committed to God nor to Satan

Question 9

Who is being punished in the first circle of Hell?

Answer 9

virtuous pagans whose only sin is that they were never baptized

Question 10

What shades does Dante meet in the first circle of Hell?

Answer 10

Homer, Horace, Ovid, Lucan

Question 11

What sound does Dante hear rising from the first circle of Limbo?

Answer 11

“sighs arose from sorrow without torments”

Question 12

What is the name of the beast who judges each sinner and decides which circle they belong in?

Answer 12

Minos

Question 13

What type of sinner is in the second circle of Hell?

Answer 13

the lustful

Question 14

Who does Dante speak with in the second circle who causes him to weep and faint from pity?

Answer 14

Francesca

Question 15

What is the punishment of the lustful?

Answer 15

They are blown about by the wind.

Question 16

What type of sin is punished in the third circle of Hell?

Answer 16

gluttony

Question 17

What is the punishment of the gluttonous?

Answer 17

They are pelted with disgusting precipitation (rain/snow/hail).

Question 18

Who is the three-headed monster who claws and bites the gluttonous?

Answer 18

Cerberus

Question 19

What two types of sinners are being punished in the fourth circle?

Answer 19

misers and spendthrifts

Question 20

What type of sin is punished in the fifth circle?

Answer 20

wrath

Question 20

What is the name of the deity of wealth who guards the fourth circle?

Answer 20

Plutus

Question 21

How are the wrathful punished?

Answer 21

Some are hitting each other, and others are drowning in the mud.

Question 22

What are the miserly and the spendthrifts doing to each other?

Answer 22

rolling huge weights at one another and yelling “Why do you hoard?” and “Why do you squander?”

Question 23

How do Dante and Virgil get through the walls of Dis?

Answer 23

an angel sent from heaven, divine intervention

Question 24

What type of sinners are in the sixth circle?

Answer 24

heretics

Question 25

How are heretics punished?

Answer 25

They are buried in burning tombs.

Question 26

Who does Dante meet in the sixth circle?

Answer 26

leaders of two opposing religious factions named Farinata and Cavalcante

Question 27

What sin is punished in the seventh circle?

Answer 27

violence

Question 28

What are the three rings of the seventh circle?

Answer 28

violence against others, violence against self, and violence against God

Question 29

Who are Chiron, Pholus, and Nessus?

Answer 29

three centaurs who shoot arrows at any sinners in circle 7 who come too far out of the boiling blood

Question 30

How are those who attempted suicide punished?

Answer 30

They are turned into dark, crooked, thorny trees who the Harpies feed on.

Question 31

Who does Dante speak with in the second ring on circle 7?

Answer 31

Pietro della Vigna, an advisor to the emperor who was falsely accused of being unfaithful

Question 32

What will happen to those who committed suicide at the Second Coming of Christ?

Answer 32

Instead of having a body again, the body of each shade will hang on its tree.

Question 33

What is the punishment for those who committed violence against God?

Answer 33

being pelted with a rain of fire on a sandy plain

Question 34

What prophecy does Ser Brunetto Latini make on the edge of the seventh circle?

Answer 34

that a group of people in Florence will reject Dante and ruin the city

Question 35

What sin is punished in the first chasm of the eighth circle?

Answer 35

fraud

Question 36

What surrounds the two ditches at the beginning of circle 8?

Answer 36

a wall made of iron stone with cuts in it

Question 37

How are the fraudulent punished in the second ditch of Malebolge?

Answer 37

being whipped by demons

Question 38

How are flatterers punished?

Answer 38

being stuck in a pit of sewage

Question 39

What is the sin of Simony?

Answer 39

using positions in the church for personal monetary gain

Question 40

How is each Simonist punished?

Answer 40

a soul is stuck upside down in a hole and his feet are being burned until a new soul comes and pushes that one further down in the hole

Question 41

Who is punished with their heads turned backward while forced to walk forward with tears in their eyes?

Answer 41

diviners / fortune tellers

Question 42

Where are thieves punished?

Answer 42

in the seventh ditch of Malebolge (circle 8)

Question 43

How are thieves punished?

Answer 43

they are running around naked with serpents chasing them

Question 44

What thief does Dante meet in the seventh ditch of Malebolge?

Answer 44

Vanni Fucci

Question 45

Where is betrayal punished?

Answer 45

in the ninth ditch of Malebolge (circle 8)

Question 46

How is the sin of betrayal punished?

Answer 46

sinners are ripped apart by a devil with a long sword

Question 47

What sin are Fra Dolcino, Mosca dei Lamberti, and Bertrand de Born punished for?

Answer 47

betrayal

Question 48

What is the environment of the ninth circle of Hell?

Answer 48

a frozen lake

Question 49

Who is punished in the ninth circle of Hell?

Answer 49

traitors to kindred, traitors to country, traitors to guests, traitors to lords and patrons

Question 50

How are the traitors punished?

Answer 50

they are buried deeper and deeper in ice as they get closer to the center of Hell