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Question | Answer |
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Who murdered Francesca and Paolo? | Giovanni |
What is the allegorical idea represented by Minos? | conscience |
Who is punished in the vestibule? | indecisive |
Who was guilty of lust and murdered by husband? | Francesca |
Who was punished in Limbo? | Unbaptized |
What is Judgement day called? | Jehosophat |
What idea is allegorically personified as Virgil? | reason |
What mountain is seen by Ulysses? | Purgatory |
Virgil wrote what and predicted Christ? | Eclogue |
who was one of the worst sinners of all? | Judas |
What pope was hated by dante? | Boniface VIII |
Whose statue was stolen from Troy? | Athena |
Who was one of the greatest poets of all time? | Homer |
Which Ghibelline is guilty of heresy? | Farinata |
The castle and its light represent what? | Knowledge |
Where is a heretic kept? | Sepulchar |
who was 'the coward who made the great refusal'? | Pilate |
Which angel was cast out of heaven? | Lucifer |
Who was the likker of Julius Ceasar and was an honorable man? | Brutus |
Allegorically, Beatrice represents what concept? | grace |
What is a story with characters and settings representing abstract ideas? | Allegory |
Who is one of the fraudulent counselors? | Ulysses |
Who was chewed on by Satan? | Cassius |
What was the language of the common people? | Vernacular |
What river did you cross to get into Hell and Hades? | Acheron |
the last circle is covered in what? | Ice |
Whose apocryphal gospel tells of the harrowing? | Nicodemus |
Christ took the believers out of hell at what? | Harrowing |
Who was Ulysses partner in deception? | Diomedes |
What is 'punishment fits the crime'? | Contrapasso |
What is the river of forgetfullness, begins with Hades, goes to the top of purgatory? | Lethe |
Who is killed by his brother for an adultress affair? | Paolo |
What does farinata predict will happen to Dante? | Exile |
What country does Ulysses and Diomedes defeat with a trick? | Troy |
What political party is in opposition of Dante's family? | Ghibellines |
What Florentine party does Dante's family belong to? | Guelphs |
Who is the boatman of Hades? | Charon |
What has no bars, people enter at their own free will? | Hells gate |
What was Virgil's great epic of the founding of Rome? | Aeneid |
Who was one of the virtuous pagens, a Trojan? | Hector |
dante represents what concept in the allegory? | Mankind |
Being lost in sin is like being lost in what place? | Woods |
Where are the opportunists punished? | Vestibule |
What greek soldier lusted after Polyxena? | Achilles |
What sinners are punished by being blown back in a black wind? | Lustful |
What is going against the teachings of the church called? | Heresy |
How many canticles are there? | Three |
What was the black death brought by? | Rats |
Where was the best place to study law and rhetoric? | University of Rologna |
Dante's hometown | Florence |
Wandering minstrels who sang love songs | Troubadours |
Charles Martel defeated the Moors at this battle | Battle of Tours |
Hero of the French epic | Roland |
Official languague of the church | Latin |
Roman Empire was eventually split in two and the main ciity in the east was this | Constantinople |
the chalice of Christ | Holy Grail |
The literary work about a knight on a grail quest has this title | Perceval |
An important archetype in the middle ages- it isfound in the Divine Comedy | Quest |
the author of the Divine Comedy | Dante |
Spanish, French, and Italian are all what kind of languages? | Romantic |
He was Dante's guide through Hell and Purgatory? | Virgil |
The Moors were followers of this religion | Islam |
He was crowned Holy Roman Empire by Pope Leo III | Charlemaine |
the battles between the Moors and the Christians in the holy Land were called this | The Crusades |
the best place to go to sudy theology and philoshy | University of Paris |
this was the story of a person visiting hell, heaven and purgatory | The Divine Comedy |