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Quiz about Dantes Divine Comedy
Quiz about Dantes Divine Comedy

Dante's Divine Comedy Trivia Quiz


Multiple choice trivia about arguably the best poem ever written. Dante e' in gamba!

A multiple-choice quiz by maggie99. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
maggie99
Time
3 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
22,584
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
1820
Last 3 plays: Guest 47 (8/10), Guest 195 (8/10), Peachie13 (10/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. The city from which Dante was exiled when he wrote the Divine Comedy and on which his text makes many comments was: Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Who is Dante's guide through Hell and Purgatory? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. What woman occupies Dante's mind more than anyone else? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. How old was Dante when he met this special lady? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. What are the physical settings of Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. How many circles of Hell are there? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. How many rivers are named in Hell? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. What ISN'T God in the Divine Comedy? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Whom does Dante NOT meet in the Divine Comedy? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Where and when (approximately) did Dante live? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. The city from which Dante was exiled when he wrote the Divine Comedy and on which his text makes many comments was:

Answer: Florence

Florence is like a 'sick woman that can find no rest on her bed of down but with turning seeks to ease her pain.' Purgatorio VI 149-151.
2. Who is Dante's guide through Hell and Purgatory?

Answer: Virgil

Virgil does not bring Dante all the way to Paradise because he was a Pagan and a permanent resident of Limbo.
3. What woman occupies Dante's mind more than anyone else?

Answer: Beatrice

4. How old was Dante when he met this special lady?

Answer: 9

Yes, at the tender age of nine Dante saw Beatrice, also nine, on the street. She was was wearing a red coat, and he was instantly enamoured. They never talked, although when Dante was eighteen (nine times two!) she passed him on the street and said 'excuse me.' That was enough that he needed to go home and lie down for awhile. Sadly, Beatrice and Dante each married someone else, and Beatrice died at twenty five. Dante was crushed.
5. What are the physical settings of Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso?

Answer: Pit, Mountain, Universe

First Dante descends into the pit of Hell, then he climbs the mountain of Purgatory, then he travels away from the earth into the universe.
6. How many circles of Hell are there?

Answer: 9

Number nine pops up again! In order of least offense to greatest: 1. Limbo- virtuous Pagans. 2. Lascivious. 3. Gluttons. 4. Avaricious and Spendthrifts. 5. Wrathful. 6. Heretics. 7. Violent. 8. Fraudulent. 9. Treacherous.
7. How many rivers are named in Hell?

Answer: 4

In order as Dante sees them: 1. Acheron (root word 'ache'): all souls cross it on the way into Hell. 2. Styx: the wrathful souls are submerged in it and are beating eachother up. 3. Phlegethon: the river of blood in which those violent against others are boiling. 4. Cocytus: the iced lake of the treacherous with Lucifer frozen in the middle.

There is a fifth river, Lethe, the river of forgetfulness, but Dante doesn't give its name.
8. What ISN'T God in the Divine Comedy?

Answer: a man sitting on the moon

The idea of God as the center AND that which surrounds a sphere is one of the coolest paradoxes of Paradiso. In Dante's rendition, God is the most distant shell that surrounds the geocentric universe. But once Dante travels almost to that point, he converges from an outside sphere to God at the very center of that sphere. For anyone mathematically inclined, check out Riemann's idea of a hypersphere.
9. Whom does Dante NOT meet in the Divine Comedy?

Answer: his mother

He gets a blissful and transcedental moment with God, Beatrice meets him in Purgatory and takes him almost all the way to God, Minos is the judge of the condemned souls in the second circle of Hell.
10. Where and when (approximately) did Dante live?

Answer: Italy, 1300

Come on, he's Italian. That's not too hard.
Source: Author maggie99

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