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Inferno

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Inferno game quiz
"Quick quiz on the Inferno. Have fun!"

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1. Who is the author of Inferno?
    Niccolo Machiavelli
    Petrarch
    John Milton
    Dante Alighieri


2. Who is the pilgrim's guide through Hell?
    Homer
    Aeneas
    Ovid
    Virgil


3. What word is the last word of the last sentence used in Inferno?
    Answer: (It is also the last word of Purgatorio and Paradiso.)


4. On what holiday does the pilgrim's trip through Hell occur?
    Christmas Day
    Good Friday
    Easter Sunday
    New Year's Day


5. In which part of Hell would you find the virtuous unbaptized, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and others?
    Limbo
    Marsh of Styx
    City of Dis
    River Phlegethon


6. In the second circle, what was the punishment for those who were lustful on Earth?
    To crash into each other with large rolling weights
    To run from snakes and serpents
    To walk eternally in lead-lined cloaks
    To be thrown about in an eternal windstorm


7. Whose job is it to judge the condemned souls, and wraps his tail around his body to signify which circle they belong in?
    Chiron
    Geryon
    Minos
    Lucifer


8. In which circle are those who comitted one of ten types of fraud kept in 'malebolge?'
    the ninth circle
    The eighth circle
    the sixth circle
    the seventh circle


9. Which area is not part of the ninth circle?
    Ptolomea
    Romena
    Caina
    Judecca


10. Which pope is found among the simoniacs, suffering even worse than the others?
    Nicholas III
    Benedict XI
    BonifaceVIII
    Clement V


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Compiled Jun 28 12