Circle 5 (and some Circle 8)
The contrapasso for the wrathful.
What is thrashing about in the slime in frustration and fighting each other?
In the heretics circle, the epicureans are there for their lack of belief in this.
What is the afterlife?
The creature who is half bull half man who menaces the poets as they're descending the rock wall to circle 7.
What is the Minotaur?
The way Dante and Virgil get down to the 8th circle of Fraud.
What is on the back of Geryon?
The contrapasso of those who betrayed their kin.
What is being in ice except for necks and heads (they are able to shed tears)?
The contrapasso for the sullen.
What is lying entombed below the slime, gargling a meaningless song?
The contrapasso for the heretics.
What is trapped in burning tombs?
What the River is made of in this circle that punishes the violent.
What is blood?
The contrapasso of the flatterers.
What is lying in a river of excrement, knocking and thumping themselves, and "blubbering through their snouts?
The contrapasso of being in ice except for only half their faces; necks are bent backwards and tears freeze in their eye sockets to deny them the comfort of tears is for these particular betrayers.
What are those who betrayed guests and hosts?
(From circle 8) The sinner who is laying on the ground crucified while other sinners walk over him.
Who is Caiaphas?
When the tombs of the heretics will be closed.
What is the second coming?
The contrapasso for the violent against their neighbors.
What is being immersed in boiling blood and shot by arrows if they come out?
The contrapasso of the simoniacs.
What is being turned upside down in crevices of rock with their feet sticking out and on fire?
The contrapasso of those in the very bottom, round 4 Judecca, those who betrayed their masters.
What is they are completely frozen under the ice?
Who arrives when Virgil and Dante can’t get past the rebellious angels at the Gate of Dis.
Who is the Heavenly Messenger (angel)?
(Circle 8) The contrapasso of the sowers of discord and one of the sinners.
What is having their bodies severely dismembered; Mohammed/Ali?
The contrapasso for the violent against themselves.
What is being encased in trees while harpies eat them; they can only talk when they bleed?
The contrapasso of the fortune tellers.
What is having their heads turned backward and having to walk backwards through all eternity?
Why Ugalino and Ruggieri are in Round 2 of Circle 9 and what Ugolino is doing to Ruggieri.
What is because they both betrayed their city and Ruggieri also betrayed Ugalino, and Ugolino is gnawing on Ruggieri's neck?
(From Circle 8) The contrapasso for the evil counselors and 1 of the sinners in this bolgia.
They are encased in flames; Ulysses?
What is being predicted by Cavalcante here: "But the face of her who reigns in Hell shall not be fifty times rekindled in its course before you learn what griefs attend that art."
What is Dante's exile/banishment?
The contrapasso for the violent against God, Nature, Art.
What is being rained on by flakes of fire on a desert, some lie on the sand, some run in endless circles, and some huddle on the sands?
The contrapasso of the hypocrites.
What is walking around with extremely heavy leaden robes that are decorated on the outside?
Who are Brutus, Cassius, Judas because they betrayed their masters?