Abandon All Hope

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1. To begin at the beginning: what is the best English translation for the Inferno's first line, "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita"? "In the middle of our life's room" "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" "On our way fast down the road" "Halfway on the path of our life"

2. Which ancient Roman poet serves as Dante's guide through the infernal regions? Ovid Catullus Horace Virgil

3. How many circles of hell does Dante pass through? eight nine ten none

4. Which philosophers does Dante encounter in Limbo, the first circle of hell? Socrates and Plato Herakleitos and Plato Plato and Aristotle Socrates and Thales

5. Name the two lustful adulterers whom Dante meets in the second circle of hell. Tristan and Isolde Hero and Leander Abelard and Heloise Paolo and Francesca

6. At the beginning of which century does the poem begin? twelfth thirteenth fourteenth fifteenth

7. What is the Italian term for the ten "evil pockets" in which Dante sees the fraudulent suffering on entering the eighth circle of hell? fiori bolgie cantini abysmos

8. The ninth and lowest circle of hell Dante reserves for what kind of sinners? the heretical the treasonous the slothful the avaricious

9. Now for the big guy himself. What is Satan's punishment for disobeying God? he stands buried to his waist in freezing ice he sits in a desk reading Dante's Inferno he stands engulfed in terrible flames he is eaten alive by other fallen angels

10. After climbing down Satan's shaggy legs, Dante and his guide emerge into what new area? Purgatorio Mt. Etna Paradiso Mt. Vesuvius