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Dante's Inferno
Federigo's Falcon
Vocabulary
Vocabulary, Cont.
Asian literature
100
This demon ferries souls to the dead
Who is Charon?
100
After becoming poor, Federigo is left with these two things.
What are a small farm and a falcon?
100
To look down on or treat with contempt
What is disdain?
100
Talk, conversation.
What is discourse?
100
He said "To study without thinking is futile. To think without studying is dangerous.
Who is Confucius?
200
The place where the lustful go after death.
What is the second level of hell?
200
What Monna Giovanna's son says will make him feel better.
What is the falcon?
200
Unfortunate
What is hapless?
200
Courage.
What is fortitude?
200
The highest ideal for moral behavior in Confucian thought.
What is humanity?
300
Dis, a giant creature with three hideous faces
Who is the ruler of hell?
300
The reason Federigo cries when Monna Giovanna asks him for the falcon.
What is they just ate the falcon for dinner?
300
An irresistible impluse to act.
What is compulsion?
300
To jut out; project
What is protrude?
300
Proper conduct, from everyday manners to religious observances.
What is ritual?
400
Dante's last name.
What is Alighieri?
400
The work of literature "Federigo's Falcon" comes from.
What is The Decameron?
400
French word for rebirth.
What is Renaissance?
400
In the Ramayana, the hero Rama was unable to be affected or harmed by anything. In other words he was this.
What is impervious?
400
Lao-Tzu is credited with being the first to practice this philosophy.
What is Taoism?
500
Those who reside in the lowest level of hell.
What are betrayers?
500
The author of The Decameron.
Who is Giovanni Boccaccio?
500
If you are in accord, you are in this.
What is agreement?
500
An unusually heavy or destructive flood, like the one from The Bible and The Epic of Gilgamesh.
What is a deluge?
500
Tanka poetry later inspired this other, shorter form of poetry.
What is Haiku?