dante inferno

1. In Canto 9, which supernatural figure ultimately opens the gate of Dis for Dante and Virgil? 

An angelic messenger

2. The Furies threaten Dante with the arrival of which mythological figure? 

Medusa

3. What does Virgil do to protect Dante when Medusa is invoked? 

Covers Dantes eyes and turns him away 

4. The heretics punished in flaming tombs in Canto 10 are guilty specifically of what?

 Heresy (denial of the soul’s immortality)

5. Which famous Florentine does Dante converse with among the heretics? 

Farinata degli Uberti

6. In Canto 12, who guards the first ring of the seventh circle, the Violent Against Neighbors? 

The minotaur

7. The violent against neighbors are punished by: 

Immersion in the river of boiling blood (Phlegethon)

8. Which centaur escorts Dante and Virgil along the Phlegethon? 

Nessus

9. The suicides in Canto 13 inhabit which unusual form? 

Thory trees

10. Dante breaks a branch from one of the trees. What happens? 

The tree bleeds and speaks

11. The Harpies in Canto 13 torment the souls by: 

Tearing and feeding on their leaves

12. In Canto 14, what figure is carved on the giant statue of the Old Man of Crete? 

Tears flow through the cracks and form the river in hell

13. The Violent Against God (Blasphemers) lie on: 

Buring sand under raining fire 

14. Capaneus, the towering blasphemer, displays what defining attitude? 

Defiant Pride

15. In Canto 17, Geryon is described primarily as: 

A monster with a human honest face and serpent body scorpion tail

16. In Canto 26, Ulysses and Diomedes share a double flame because: 

They share a single punishment for joint deceit 

17. What motivates Ulysses to sail beyond the Pillars of Hercules in Canto 26? 

Boundless desire for knowledge and exploration

18. What ends Ulysses’ final voyage in Canto 26? 

A whirlpool that drowns his ship 

19. What distinguishes Ulysses’ speech from many others in Inferno? 

It is noble persuasive and tragic rather than bitter and evil

20. Guido da Montefeltro in Canto 27 is damned for: 

Fraudelent consel to Pope Boniface VII

21. Why does Guido’s repentance fail, according to the devil in Canto 27? 

Repentance came after giving fraudulent advice 

22. In Canto 28, the sowers of discord are punished by: 

Being mutilated repeatedly by demons

23. Which figure in Canto 28 represents religious schism as Dante understood it?

Mohammed

24. Why does Bertran de Born carry his severed head before him?

For dividing father and son 

25. In Canto 29, Dante is angered by Master Adam because the sinner: 

Rufues to stop arguing and distracts Dante 

26. Why are Master Adam and Sinon placed together in Canto 30? 

Both are falsifiers(counterfeiters/liars

27. The exchange of insults between Sinon and Master Adam parodies what tradition? 

Epic flyting / insulting debate tradition

28. Why does Virgil rebuke Dante as they approach the giants? 

Dante, seeing the enormous figures mistakes them for a ring of high towers surrounding a city

29. What is unique about Nimrod’s speech when Dante encounters him? 

His speech is unintelligible babble

30. Which giant transports Dante and Virgil down to the frozen lake of Cocytus? 

Antaeus

31. In the first zone of the Ninth Circle (Caina), what sin is punished? 

Treachery against family

32. Why is the punishment especially striking to Dante as he walks through Antenora?

The brutality and inhumanity of the punishment

Dante recognizes fellow Florentines

33. What act of betrayal condemned Count Ugolino to his punishment? 

Betraying Pisa 

34. What does Ugolino claim happened to his sons in the tower? 

They starved to death 

35. Why does Dante express anger toward Pisa after hearing Ugolino’s story? 

For allowing such cruelty and injustice

36. How is Satan positioned at the center of Cocytus according to Dante’s description?

Frozen from the waist down in the center of the earther in ice with three wings beating

37. Whom does Satan eternally chew in his three mouths?

Judas, Brutus, Cassius

38. How do Dante and Virgil ultimately escape Hell? 

Climb down Satan’s body and emerge through a passage to the surface