The Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony Quiz

Answer: true

Evagrius Ponticus was an exiled monk who first exposed the eight deadly temptations that plagued monks. Evagrius Ponticus wrote his list specifically for members of the church sometime between AD 345 and AD 399. Gluttony was placed first on the list because Evagrius believed that the desire for food would make people focus more on their next meal rather than on God. Or that it could lead to crimes against other people (e.g. hoarding food from the poor).

Answer: eating before/after prayer

St. Thomas Aquinas was a philosopher and theologian. Aquinas made his list sometime between AD 1225 and AD 1274 to battle the sin of gluttony. The six ways that he listed to commit gluttony were eating too soon, eating too expensively, eating too much, eating too eagerly, eating too daintily (savoring or taking small bites so the food will last longer), and eating wildly.

Answer: Ashes

Aquinas sprinkled ash on his food to keep himself from enjoying it. Had he totally refrained from eating, which he considered the best way to avoid gluttony, he might have seemed ungrateful when at the tables of people who had given him food and lodging for the night.

Answer: true

The purpose for this room was so that if the monks sinned it would not count against them. It wouldn't count against them is because the room was not considered part of the monastery.

Answer: third

On the third circle, the gluttonous are guarded by Cerberus and forced to lie in a slush made of freezing rain, black snow, and hail. The slush is symbolic of the waste that the gluttonous people made of themselves when they were alive.

Answer: avoid food in all of its forms

According to Dante if the soul doesn't eat it wastes away to nothing just as a living being does. However, in the case of a sinner that is good because it kills the shade that possessed the soul and forced it to sin in life.

Answer: Beelzebub

In the book each Demon was assigned a place in Satan's army and was commanded by a demonic lord. And just like gluttony each of the demonic lords was in command of a sin. As is typical of Demons, they also all possess the ability to possess humans.

Answer: Hog

The hog is the symbol of gluttony because they are well known for eating anything. The pig is also a symbol of gluttony because like the hog they will eat anything that is placed in front of them.

Answer: Orange

Orange is a common color of gluttony because the color itself represents fall or the harvest season, a time when food would be abundant. Orange also acts as an appetite stimulant.

Answer: Abstinence

In this case, abstinence means to abstain from food or fast. Therefore, fasting is the modern interpretation of abstinence, since Jesus resisted the temptation of gluttony by fasting, Catholics often give up something for Lent as a tribute to this.