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Inferno Cantos 22-34 Test Review

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Five citizens of Florence
those who prophesy or advise in Florence when Dante is a magistrate
Ulysses
more famous of the two who blame in the double-headed flame (the other was Diomede)
Fire and the bridge falling out
Tragedies that followed when the Pope cursed Florence
Forgiveness
This soul was asked for advice by Dante and promised what in return?
Remember him
What does the head that the sinner is carrying in Canto 28 ask Dante to do?
A broken engagement and murder
What started the feud between the Guelphs and the Ghibellines?
He continues to claim his innocence
How does the soul who said he could teach the boy to fly show that he deserves to be in hell?
Farts
What slightly inappropriate word is used to describe how a man is split in the opening of the canto?
The counterfeiters are also plagued by thirst
What is the difference in punishment between the alchemist and counterfeiters?
the evil impersonators
Who are the sinners who run through the falsifiers?
different languages
What is the problem that Virgil says Nimrod caused?
They raised their arms against the gods in revolt
Why are the arms of a few of the giants bound five times?
Virgil holds him in his arms
How does Dante know he will be safe as Antaeus lifts him and Virgil and sets them on the final floor of hell?
Cities
What does Dante think that the giants are when he sees them from a distance?
the fortune tellers and diviners
Tears fall on their buttocks as they walk; their heads are turned backwards (type of sinner)
Antenora
The treacherous to country are in this place
flatterers
Walk or lay in river of excrement (type of sinner)
Geryon
Had the face of innocence and hairy paws; has a scorpion tail
thieves
In a pit full of reptiles; transformation occurs with these souls (type of sinner)
panderers
Walk in endless circles (type of sinner)
Myrrha
Disguised self and slept with her father; name represents the type of tree the gods turned her into as punishment
Cocytus
The final pit of hell; Last great body of water in hell
evil counselors
Odysseus is one of these (type of sinner)
Nimrod
Built the tower of Babel
grafters
Lay in sticky pitch (type of sinner)
userers
Envy or stare at others' purses (type of sinner)
hypocrites
Wear robes of lead (type of sinner)
Sinon
Talked Trojans into taking horse into city of Troy; convinced them it was a gift
simoniacs
In tube resembling baptismal fonts (type of sinner)
giants
Guard pit of hell
userers
Have a leather purse bearing a coat of arms around each of their necks (type of sinner)
counterfeiters
Lay in pit covered with scabs; are thirsty (type of sinner)
evil counselors
In the form of flames (type of sinner)
Tiresias
Predicted future in both the Odyssey and Oedipus Rex
Caiaphas
Crucified to the floor of hell
That he could fly
Alchemists promised the king's son what?
The throne
What did the sons of Oedipus fight over and kill themselves over?
Malacoda
The leader of the Malabranche, the demons who guard the Fifth Pouch of the Eighth Circle of Hell. His name means "evil tail"
Falsifiers
Lay in dark circle; afflicted with sword and fever that burns their brain; all senses are afflicted here
Caina
Treacherous to blood ties are here
Alchemists
Make gold
Cacus
Centaur who has a dragon on his back
Muhammad
Responsible for the schism of Christianity
Bertram
Holds his head as a lantern
Impersonators
Preyed upon by own furies and run without pause
Ptolomea
Treacherous to guest and host lie here
Treacherous against the ties of hospitality
Lie with half of their faces out of the ice
Judecca
Sinners in this place are completely submerged
Satan
Beats his wings in hell
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