Dante's Inferno Quiz 2
22 Questions
| Total Attempts: 93
Testing to see if you know the Inferno
Questions and Answers
- 1.is the ferryman who takes dead souls across the Acheron.
- 2.is the first of the rivers of Hell.
- 3.are born without the light of Chris's Revelation.
- 4.Represents Philosophy
- 5.Betrayed reason to their appetites
- 6.What is the punishment of the Carnal?
- A.
They are not tormented
- B.
They are swept by a great whirlwind
- C.
They lie in an icy paste
- 7.Wat is the punishment of the hoarders and the wasters?
- 8.Lie in tombs
- 9.Who are immersed in boiling blood while Centaurs patrol the banks, ready to shoot with their arrows any sinner who raises himself out of the boiling blood?
- 10.Who was the Minotaur?
- A.
A hairy beast
- B.
A madman
- C.
Half-beast, half man
- 11.Encased in thorny trees whose leaves are eaten by Harpies
- A.
The Violent against themsleves
- B.
The violent against God
- C.
The Suicides
- D.
The Heretics
- E.
The Wrathful
- 12.Lie upon a great plain of burning sand
- 13.Turn themselves into a wheel
- A.
Guido, Tegghaio, Jacopo
- B.
Jacopo, Minos, Geryon
- 14.Have a leather purse around their necks
- 15.Hacked and torn through all eternity
- 16.Separated father and son and swings his head
- 17.Stand perpetual guard inside the well-pit and the upper halves of their bodies rise above the rim
- 18.Lie with only their faces above the ice and their tears freeze in their eye sockets
- A.
The Treacherous to Country
- B.
The Treacherous to Guests and Hosts
- 19.Move about endlessly, hidden from view inside great flames
- A.
The Grafters
- B.
The Violent against Neighbor
- C.
The Evil Counselors
- D.
The Thieves
- 20.Full of monsrous reptiles
- A.
The pit of hypocrites
- B.
The pit of the thieves
- 21.Snk in boiling pitch and guarded by demons who tear them to pieces and grappling hooks
- 22.Weighted down by great leaden robes
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