English 12
Mrs. Nollette
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Name ________________________________________________ Period _________
From what country was Dante? During what time period did he live and write?
What was significant about the language of Inferno?
Inferno is an ___________________ poem, the story of Dante’s journey through
______________. It is part of the ______________________________________ trilogy.
Dante’s vision of Hell contained _______________________ levels.
Sins were divided into three groups:
Sins of _________________________________________________
Sins of _________________________________________________
Sins of _________________________________________________
What category of sins is placed in the Ninth Circle of Hell?
Canto XXXIV (Circle 9—Cocytus, Round 4—Judecca)
1. What is Satan’s position in Hell? What is the irony of this?
2. How are the “souls of the last class” of sinners punished? Why can’t Dante talk to them?
3. What is Dante’s reaction to seeing Satan?
4. How does Dante describe the size of Satan?
5. List the colors of Satan’s faces.
6. What other details about Satan’s appearance does Dante provide?
7. Whom does Dante place in Satan’s central mouth? What other details about this sinner’s
punishment does Dante describe?
8. Who is in the other two mouths of Satan? How is their position different from the sinner in
Satan’s central mouth?
9. How does Dante escape from Hell?
10. How is this symbolically appropriate?