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English-Inferno
Inferno Unit Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence | Fraud |
| Fraud-Part of speech | Noun/verb |
| Requiring great exertion, laborious; difficult | Arduous |
| Arduous- Part of speech | Adjective |
| A person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money. | Miser |
| Miser- Part of speech | Noun |
| Violent and noisy commotion or disturbance of a crown or mob; uproar. | Tumult |
| Tumult- Part of speech | Noun |
| Anything that pricks or wounds like a stick. | Goad |
| Goad- Part of speech | Noun |
| Disgusting; revolting; repulsive. | Loathsome |
| Loathsome- Part of speech | Adjective |
| Impious utterance or action concerning God or sacred things. | Blasphemy |
| Blasphemy- Part of speech | Noun |
| Of, pertaining to, or having the form of a beast. | Bestial |
| Bestial- Part of speech | Adjective |
| Odd or unnatural in shape or appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd. | Grotesque |
| Grotesque- Part of speech | Adjective |
| The state of being depraved. | Depravity |
| Depravity- Part of speech | Noun |
| Involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous. | Perilous |
| Perilous- Part of speech | Adjective |
| To faint; loose consciousness. | Swoon |
| Swoon- Part of speech | Verb |
| Wind or twist together; interweave. | Entwine |
| Entwine- Part of speech | Verb |
| To tend to meet in a point or line. | Converge |
| Converge- Part of speech | Verb |
| Skill in using the hands or body; agility. | Dexterity |
| Dexterity- Part of speech | Noun |
| Circle 1 | Limbo |
| Circle one- who and punishment | People who never did anything in life. Floating |
| Circle 2 | The Lustful |
| Circle 2- Who and punishment | Adultery. Spinning in tornadoes. |
| Circle 3 | The Gluttonous |
| Circle 3- Who and punishment | Those who took more than needed. People eat their flesh. |
| Circle 4 | The Avaricious and Prodigal |
| Circle 4- Who | Greedy and wasteful. |
| Circle 5 | The Wrathful and Sullen |
| Circle 5- Who | Angry and depressed. |
| Circle 6 | Heretics |
| Circle 6- Who and punishment | Bad priests. Constantly on fire. |
| Circle 7 | The violent |
| Circle 7- Who | Committed violent crimes...killers, rapists, etc. |
| Circle 8 | Fraud |
| Circle 8- Who | Liars, tricked those who cared for them. |
| Circle 9 | Treachery |
| Circle 9- Who | Killed friends or relatives. |
| Compares two or more things using the words like or as. | Simile |
| Compares two things using like or as, but the comparison is so long that it often interrupts the plot of the epic. | Epic simile |
| Verse form that is written in 3 line stanzas called tercets. The lines rhyme aba and each line is composed of 10 or 11 syllables. | Terza Rime |
| "The Tortoise and the Hare" | Allegory |
| A story in which most or all elements have symbolic meanings. The story itself has 2 levels of meaning- Literal and symbolic. | Allegory |
| Very popular during the Middle Ages- most about religion. | allegory |
| Symbolic meaning of the lion... | Violence and ambition |
| Symbolic meaning of the She-Wolf | Incontinence |
| Wrote the Iniad | Virgil |
| How old is Dante at the beginning of the poem? | 35 |
| How many times does Dante swoon? | Twice |
| Vesitbule | Lobby |
| Vestibule of hell means... | not there yet |
| Judecca is named for... | Judas Iscarriot |
| Season? | Easter |
| Play starts on.... | Good Friday |
| Setting at the beginning? | Dark forest |
| Who does Dante discover in the woods at the beginning? | The ghost of Virgil |
| What does Dante realize at the beginning? | He has strayed from Worldliness(The True Way into the Dark Wood of error) |
| Sun is the symbol of... | Divine Illumination |
| Dante sets out to climb... | The Mount of Joy |
| Who are the three beasts of worldliness? | The Leopard of Malice and Fraud, The Lion of Violence and Ambition, and the She-Wolf of Incontinence |
| What is Virgil a symbol of to Dante? | Human Reason |
| Who was sent to lead Dante from error? | Virgil |
| Start at Inferno, then to Purgatorio, then to... | Paradisio |
| Who offers to guide Dante? | Virgil |
| Who is the symbol of divine love? | Beatrice |
| Who is Dante's guide through Paradisio? | Beatrice |
| Why does Beatrice have to take over? | Human Reason is self-limited. |
| Incontinence | Lack of self-restraint |
| The sun was symbolic for... | God as He who lights man's way |
| What are the three divisions of hell? | Incontinence, violence, and fraud |
| Weakening | Attrition |
| A region of northern, Italy | Lombard |
| The birthplace of Virgil | Mantua |
| Laughs scornfully | Fleers |
| Damanation | The second death |
| A burning mountain | The Mountain of Purgatory |
| The gate of Purgatory | Peter's Gate |
| Who does Dante first see in Hell? | The Opportunists |
| Who are the Opportunists? | Those souls who in life were neither for good nor evil but were only for themselves |
| Who are the outcasts in hell? | Those who took no sides in the Rebellion of the Angels. They are eternally unclassified. |
| What is the outcasts punishment? | They race round and round for the banner and get stung by bees and wasps. They have a constant flow of blood that trickles down their bodies and is feasted upon by maggots and worms who coat the ground. |
| What is the Law of Dante's Hell? | The law of symbolic retribution. As they sinned, so they are punished. |
| Who does Dante recognize in Hell? | Pope Celestine V |
| What is the first river in Hell? | Acheron |
| Who ferries the souls over to their punishment? | Charon |
| When does Dante reawaken after his last swoon? | When he gets to the other side |
| Who is the semi-bestial judge of the damned who assigns to each soul its eternal torments? | Minos |
| Who were those who betrayed reason to their appetites? | The Carnal's |
| What was the Carnal's sin? | To abandon themselves to the tempest of their passions. They are swept forever in the tempest of Hell, forever denied the light of reason and of God. |
| Who does Virgil identify in the second circle? | Semiramis, Dido, Cleopatra, Helen, Achilles, Paris, and Tristan |
| Who does Dante see swept together? | Paola and Francesca |
| Queen and founder of Carthage | Dido |
| Dido's husband | Sichaes |
| Dido fell in love with... | Aeneas |
| How did Dido kill herself? | She stabbed herself on a funeral prye she had prepared |
| The queen of Egypt | Cleopatra |
| The wife of the king of Sparta | Helen |
| Greatest warrior for the Greeks during the Trojan War. Killed by Paris because of his love for Polyxena | Achilles |
| A knight sent to Ireland by King Mark of Cornwall to bring back Isolde. They fell and love and tragically died together | Tristan |
| A river of northern Italy | Po |
| Unconfessed | unshriven |
| Fate already decided. Performed acts of treachery | Caina |
| Satan clamps a sinner in each mouth who he rips with his teeth. Who is in the central mouth? | Judas Iscariot |
| Who are in the side mouths? | Brutus and Cassius |
| Beelzebub is another name for... | Satan |
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