Name: __________________

Quiz on Inferno 12-34

Are these sins fraud, violence, or incontinence? Put an F, V, or I next to each.
1. ___ Lust 8. ___ Hypocrisy
2. ___ Seduction 9. ___ Usury
3. ___ Graft (bribe-taking) 10. ___ Suicide
4. ___ Heresy 11. ___ Miserliness
5. ___ Sodomy 12. ___ Simony
6. ___ Gluttony 13. ___ Seduction
7. ___ Flattery 14. ___ Counterfeiting

15. Dantes earthly teacher, a Florentine poet found in the circle of sodomites, was named
____________________.
16. Blasphemers, sodomites, and usurers are located in circle 7, on the ______________________.
17. Draw Geryon.

18. How does Virgil summon Geryon?

19. Other than sodomy and blasphemy, what is the other main sin punished in the 7th circle, a sin
which is considered against nature?

20. How many bolgias are there?

21. How do Jacopo Rusticucci, Guido Guerra, and Tegghiaio Aldobrandini avoid being burned in
one place for another 100 years while they stop to speak with Dante?

22. The ___________________s shoot arrows at the violent to keep them in the river of boiling
blood.
23. Jason is located in the first bolgia because he was guilty of __________________ Medea.
24. Certain popes, including Nicholas III, are shoved into a hole, with their feet on fire. This is their
punishment for the sin of ____________________.
25. The first pope to sin in this way was Sylvester, who gave temporal power to
___________________, at least according to the false legends believed in Dantes time.
 Name: __________________
26. The bridge over the 6th bolgia was broken when the __________________________ of
________________ happened.
27. The grafters are being boiled in ___________________, because that substance was used in the
bribery-filled shipbuilding trade of Venice.
28. One demon tries to catch a Navarrese grafter by diving at him like a falcon diving at a wild
_________________.
29. ___________________ is the leader of the devils who ends Canto XXI with a fart, which is
appropriate since his name means evil tail.
30. Draw the punishment of the high priest Caiaphas who presided over the trial of Jesus before the
Sanhedrin.

31. Draw the punishment of a diviner or soothsayer who tried to see the future.

32. Wide-winged they are, with human necks and faces, their feet are clawed, their bellies fat and
feathered; perched in the trees they shriek their strange laments. This is a description of the
______________________.
33. What happens to the thieves when the snakes bite them?

34. What happens to another thief when a six-footed serpent-lizard jumps on him?

35. The first river, Acheron, is crossed in a boat piloted by the boatman _________________.
36. The second river, called _________________, is full of wrathful people fighting with each other,
and is crossed by a boat piloted by ______________________.
37. The third river is the ________________________ (name).
38. The last river is the _______________________, though it does not flow at all.
39. Friar Alberigo says that Branca DOria is dead, but Dante thought he was alive. Whats the
explanation for this confusion?

40. _______________________ is chewing on the head of Archbishop Ruggieri.

41. _______________________ and _______________________ are in a single flame of fire,
being punished for the theft of the Palladium and for other acts of fraud.
42. Extra credit: Fill in the blanks: So you are still like all the other fools?
In this place _________ lives when _________ is dead.