Characters
Chapter Summaries 1
Chapter Summaries 2
Book & Author Background
Random Facts
100

This character is a virtuous pagan who guides and instructs Dante on his journey.

What is Virgil?

100

Canto 2: Dante doubts his ability to undertake the journey through hell. He belives he lacks what.

What is strength and courage?

100

This circle housed those who were good but did not worship God (Jesus) or were unbaptized in the Christian faith.

What is the first circle? Limbo

100

This author wrote The Divine Comedy.

What is Dante Alighieri?

100

This NFL team is Mrs. Brownsworth's favorite.

What is the Pittsburgh Steelers?

200

This character initially refuses to ferry Dante across the river Acheron because Dante is a living soul. 

What is Charon?

200

Canto 5: This circle of hell has Minos who is the judge who assigns souls to their respective circles of hell. 

What is the second circle?

200

Canto 15: Brunetto Latini does not stop to talk with Dante because he would have to lie on something for a hundred years.

What is the sands?

200

This was a city that Dante fled to after he was exciled form his own city, Florence. 

What is Bologna?

200

This type of cuisine is usually eaten with chopsticks or with yoru fingers. You can dip it in soy sauce and eat wasabi with it. Mrs. Brownsworths favoirte!

What is sushi?

300

This character's attitude towards sinners changes throughout the journey in hell because they are more confident and less sympathetic.

What is Dante?

300

Canto 10: Dante asks virgilabout the souls in the tombs. He desires to know if he know people from the city where he was from.

What is Florence?

300

In this circle, the sinners are forced to walk backwards as their punishment in this fourth trench. 

What is the 8th circle? Fraud

300

Since there is not a single protagonisst in the book, the main protagonist within the Inferno is something that Dante struggles against.

What is sin?

300

This is the city that Mrs. Brownsworth is planning on traveling to next. (churros, paella, Flamingo dancing)

What is Spain?

400

This character has three mouths that devour the three greatest traitors in history: Judas, Brutus, and Cassius. 

What is Lucifer?

400

This circle, in the Inferno, was the circle for those who were Avaricious (hoarded wealth) or Prodigal (squandered wealth).  

What is the 4th cirlce? Greed

400
In this circle, the character Vanni curses God and ends up having a snake curl around his throat. 

What is the eighth circle? (Blasphmey)

400

This is the woman that Dante loved and used as his muse in several of his poems within The Divine Comedy. 

What is Beatrice?

400

Free Points!

Free Points!

500

In the second circle, Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta were punished by what?

What is being swept by violent storms...endlessly?

500

This circle housed those who were hypocrites, thieves, false counselors, sowers of discord, and falsifiers. 

What is the 8th circle? Fraud

500

Canto 34: Dante encounters this after climbing Lucifer. It is stretching upwards.

What is Lucifers legs?

500

Name all 9 circles of hell

Limbo, Lustful, Gluttonous, Greed, Wrath, Heresy, Violence, Fraud, Treachery

500
This is the ninth planet from the sun?

What is Pluto?