Category: Dante

A. Christmas
B. All Saint’s Day
C. All Soul’s Day
D. Good Friday

A. The punishments prevent hope from being reborn in sinners.
B. The punishments keep the sinners from entering the path to salvation.
C. The punishments allow the sinners to purge their sins.
D. The punishments remind the sinners that they are damned to hell.

A. Vita Nuova
B. The Convivio
C. De Vulgari Eloquentia
D. The Divine Comedy

A. Both believed that reason was unrelated to faith.
B. Both believed in the joint power of the Church and the State.
C. Both believed that only faith was an important part of the Christian worldview.
D. Both believed that reason and faith were part of the quest for truth.

A. Natural light
B. Revelations
C. The light of grace
D. All of the above

A. He believed that eternal life in heaven was the real one.
B. Because he was pagan, he did not believe in heaven.
C. Because he was an early Christian, he believed that heaven was inaccessible.
D. He believed that heaven, hell, and earth were indistinguishable.

A. It is static language with unchanging rules.
B. It is the language spoken by everyday people.
C. It is the only kind of illustrious vernacular.
D. It is synonymous with natural language.

A. Unlike Virgil’s hell, Dante’s underworld focuses on punishment for sins.
B. Unlike Virgil’s hell, Dante’s underworld is concerned with destiny and future.
C. Unlike Virgil’s hell, Dante’s underworld is not expected to last forever.
D. Unlike Virgil’s hell, Dante’s underworld does not include examples of justice.

A. The Italian Renaissance
B. The Black Death
C. The Crusades
D. The Enlightenment

A. A place for cleansing and purification
B. The place of transition between earth, heaven, and hell
C. The setting for the middle portion of Dante’s The Divine Comedy
D. All of the above