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Reading Check: Canto I and III
True or False: Choose (A) for true and (B) for false
1.)
2.)
3.)
4.)
Dante’s journal is a literal (factual) journal
Dante thinks that greed is the worst sin of all
Dante’s guide is the Roman poet Virgil
Dante fears the she-wolf more than the lion and leopard because she is the temptation to sin
5.) Dante’s “dark wood” represents a mid-life crisis
Multiple Choice: Choose the best answer; choices can only be used once.
6.) The three beasts that Dante first encounters represent:
a. Worldly sin
c. Malice and fraud
b. Unbridled passion
d. Violence
7.) The opportunists are guilty of what sin?
a. They never took a stand on anything
b. They took advantage of human weakness
c. They attempted to foretell the future
d. They were interested only in wealth
8.) The boatman that ferries Dante and Virgil across the river Acheron is ________
a. Beatrice
b. Minos
c. Charon
d. Lucifer
9.) Dante uses the number _____ through his poem as a pervasion of the holy trinity.
a. 10
b. 100
c. 5
d. 3
10.) The hidden or unspoken part of Dante’s allegory can be seen as?
a. Dante walking through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise
b. All humanity’s struggle with sin and redemption
c. Dante’s death being questioned by society
d. Dante’s personal need to be seen as a hero
Matching: Write the letter of the best match for each item in the first column
11.) Leopard
12.) Lion
13.) Opportunists
14.) Neutral angels
15.) Divine Justice
16.) Humanist
17.) Tercet
a. three-lined stanzas
b. malice and fraud
c. focuses on hope for salvation
d. symbolic of human reason (stands for human reason)
e. someone concerned with man’s ability (reason and
logic)
f. Focuses on the love of the Holy Spirit
g. Neither good nor bad
18.) Purgatory
19.) Paradise
20.) Virgil
h. Participants in the rebellion of the angels
i. Justice carried out by God
j. Violence
Canto 33 & 34
21. Who is the sinner gnawing on the head of another?
a. Ruggeieri
b. Ugolino
c. Antenora
d. Ptomlemea
22. What does Dante give as the reason that the man gnaws on the head of his victim?
a. The killer by starvation becomes the food of his victim
b. The killer was a cannibal in life and is now a cannibal in Hell
c. His victim starved others in life, so now he is forced to starve himself
23. What is this statement an example of: “…now I will tell you why I gnaw his brain….”
a. Imagery
b. Alliteration
c. Simile
d. Irony
24. What is the punishment of the souls for those treacherous to guests and hosts?
a. On their backs on a lake of fire; cannot cry for the heat
b. On their backs on a frozen lake; tears never come for the cold
c. On their backs on a lake of fire; cannot quench the fire with their tears
d. On their backs on a frozen lake; tears freeze over eyes
25. Although individuals in the third round of Hell have not yet died, their crimes are so great that
their souls have entered Hell.
a. True
b. False
26. Why does the man gnawing on the head of another offer to tell Dante his story?
a. Hopes it brings justice to his victim
b. Hopes it brings condemnation to his victim
c. Hopes it brings relief to his situation
d. Hopes it brings aide to Dante (learn from his situation)
Canto 34/ Multiple Choice: Choose the best answer
27. Evil exists independently.
a. True
b. False
28. Why does Dante not describe all the sights he sees in Canto XXXIV?
a. he cannot clearly see his surroundings
b. Dante does not have the words to describe all the sights
c. Dante’s vocabulary is too limited
d. he faints
e. he has nothing to compare it to
29. What name does Dante call Satan in Canto XXXIV?
a. Dante calls Satan Lucifer
b. Dante calls Satan Mephistopholis
c. Dante calls Satan Dis
d. Dante calls Satan Satan
e. Dante calls Satan Devil
30. Satan is taller than the giants; they come only to his armpits.
a. True
b. False
31. Satan has retained the beauty he had in heaven.
a. True
b. False
32. Who are the three individuals in Satan’s mouths?
a. Judas, Oedipus, and Titus
b. Calchas, Galileo, and Caesar
c. Brutus, Judas, and Caesar
d. Cassius, Odysseus, and Oedipus
e. Brutus, Cassius, and Judas
33. All the sinners in Satan’s mouth are punished in the same manner.
a. True
b. False
34. Satan’s wings are …..
a. feathered and heavy
b. smooth and small
c. rough and large
d. bat like and moving
e. scaled and smooth
35. Why does Satan weep?
a. it is how he shows happiness
b. it is because he longs for peace
c. it is why he is in hell
d. it is because he wants to escape
e. it is because he is sad
36. What is the literal cause of the frozen environment in hell?
a. the common belief
b. the movement of Satan’s wings
c. it is the exhalations of the sinners
d. the center of the earth is frozen
e. reflects the lack of loyalty of the inhabitants
37. What is the figurative cause of the frozen environment in hell?
a. it is the opposite of the warmer levels of hell
b. the imagination of Dante
c. the inhabitants have used up the love of God
d. it is the exact opposite of the warmth and illumination of God
e. it reflects the emptiness of the sinners
38. What repeated action does Satan do?
a. looks from side to side
b. nods up and down
c. chews constantly
d. tears at the ice with his claws
e. moans in-between his sniffles
39. Dante exits hell clinging to Virgil’s back.
a. True
b. False
40. What day does Dante emerge from hell?
a. Friday
b. Saturday
c. Sunday
d. Monday
41. What is symbolic about the time and date that Dante emerged from hell?
a. hope
b. renewal
c. retribution
d. incubation
e. opportunity
42. How did the earth respond to Satan’s plunge from heaven?
a. no response
b. it rippled and returned to its former formation
c. it ballooned out toward heaven
d. in terror it fled north and up leaving a cavern
e. it created a cavern and fled south
43. How does Dante know he has escaped the dreadful chamber?
a. he sees the sea
b. he sees a mountain peak
c. he sees the cavern
d. he sees the stars
e. he sees a cloudless sky
44. Who will be Dante’s guide when Virgil leaves?
a. Judas
b. Cassius
c. Friar Albiergo
d. Beatrice
e. Angel