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Dante/Inferno test material!

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