Category: Dante

A. Lust is often pure, while love tends to be crude.
B. Lust and love are both sins that place the sinner in hell.
C. Lust involves the subordination of reason to desire.
D. Lust leads to moral improvement, while love is a more destructive force.

A. Sapia
B. Cato
C. Sordello
D. All of the above

A. “The sweet silence”
B. “The sweetness of love”
C. “Sweet and still”
D. “Sweet new style”

A. The absence of heretics and monsters in medieval church history
B. The conflict between ancient Romans and the early Church
C. The impossibility for sinners to repent
D. The righteousness of the Roman Empire over time

A. The movement to write more in vernacular
B. The intellectual movement interested in classical antiquity
C. The scientific movement away from classical antiquity
D. The movement based on literature about courtly love

A. He says that God’s ways are similar to those of Roman emperors.
B. He says that God’s ways are extremely simple.
C. He says that God’s ways are beyond human understanding.
D. He says that God’s ways are only available to those in heaven.

A. The planets
B. The seven deadly sins
C. The Augustan calendar
D. The seven sacraments

A. Love is an ennobling force that offers a chance for salvation.
B. Love is problematic for Dante, because Beatrice is considered impure.
C. Love has little to do with spirituality.
D. Love obscures all possibility for salvation.

A. He must be allowed by Cerberus to pass.
B. He must walk through an immense wall of flames.
C. He must be escorted into the terrace by an angelic messenger.
D. He must first be ferried across the River Lethe.

A. Allegory
B. Metonymy
C. Synesthesia
D. Simile