TeachersFirst Quiz for The Divine Comedy

Dante's Divine Comedy is complex and full of allusions. The questions below will check your understanding of the important elements that contributed to Dante's work.

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1. The Divine Comedy is made up of cantos.

2. There are 33 cantos in each section with one extra canto in

3. The Divine Comedy was not written in Latin, but rather in vernacular

4. The verse form of The Divine Comedy is called

5. In the story, Virgil represents
6. In the story, Beatrice represents
7. A literary type that, by using symbolic fictional characters and actions, expresses truths about human conduct and experience, is an
8. A long narrative poem with an exalted style, theme and hero is called an
9. The main character of The Divine Comedy is .
10. guides Dante through The Inferno and The Purgatorio.
11. guides Dante through The Paradisio.


12. The primary goal of the medieval philosophy of Scholasticism was to unite

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