According to critics, how does Dante’s underworld differ from Virgil’s hell ?

Related Mcqs:

1. According to most critics, how does Dante distinguish love from lust ?

   A. Lust is often pure, while love tends to be crude.
   B. Lust and love are both sins that place the sinner in hell.
   C. Lust involves the subordination of reason to desire.
   D. Lust leads to moral improvement, while love is a more destructive force.

2. According to Dante, which is the most serious sin in hell ?

   A. Gluttony
   B. Avarice
   C. Heresy
   D. Treachery

3. According to Dr. Mazzotta, what trait distinguishes Dante’s purgatory from his hell ?

   A. Purgatory is less future-oriented.
   B. Purgatory is a place of redemptive intervention.
   C. Purgatory includes references to time.
   D. Purgatory is less rooted in the human, natural world.

4. In The Inferno, what quality does Virgil represent ?

   A. Reason
   B. Compassion
   C. Temperance
   D. Fortitude

5. What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid ?

   A. Augustan
   B. Metaphysical
   C. Romantic
   D. Neo-Romantic

6. What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid ?

   A. Augustan
   B. Metaphysical
   C. Romantic
   D. Neo-Romantic

7. According to Dante, what does the term “gramatica” mean ?

   A. It is static language with unchanging rules.
   B. It is the language spoken by everyday people.
   C. It is the only kind of illustrious vernacular.
   D. It is synonymous with natural language.

8. According to most critics, what does Geryon represent in The Inferno ?

   A. Fraud
   B. Reason
   C. Justice
   D. Lust

9. According to most critics, what does the circular structure of Finnegans Wake represent ?

   A. the impossibility of resurrection
   B. the unconscious
   C. unrequited love
   D. the patterns of birth, life, and death

10. In The Purgatorio, whom does Dante cite as his example of temperance ?

    A. Pope Boniface
    B. Pope Clement
    C. Saint Stephen
    D. John the Baptist