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Dante's Inferno
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English
12th Grade
09/17/2014

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when did dante's journey begin?
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1300 on good friday
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who was his guide up the hill?
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virgil the angel
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who sent virgil?
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beatrice
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who met Dante at the top of the hill?
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a leopard, lion, and she-wolf
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whats the name of the first river
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acheron
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who's the ferryman
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charon
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what was the name of the ring of those who weren't baptized or didn't no christ>
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limbo
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who lives in limbo?
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homer,virgil, horace, ovid, lucan
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second ring of hell
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lust, minos who assigns ppl to rings, Francesca and Paolo da Rimini
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3rd circle
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gluttonous
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4th circle
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avaricious and prodigal
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5th circle of hell river?
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styx
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Dis
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satan 3 heads
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6th circle
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heretics
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first ring of seventh circle
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those who were violent to others
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second ring of seventh circle
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those who were violent to themselves suicide
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deeper circles of 7th ring
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those who sinned toward god
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who takes virgil and dante across to 8th ring?
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geryon takes them across abyss
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9th circle of hell
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cocytus the frozen lake
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1st ring of 9th circle
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those who betray their kin
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2nd ring in 9th circle
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those who betray their country
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3rd ring of 9th circle
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those who betrayed their guests
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4th ring of 9th circle
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Judecca, those who betray their benefactors
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who's heads does lucifer chew on?
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Judas brutus and cassius
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what is the river of forgetfulness?
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lethe
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what country/state does he use as a motif throughout hell?
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florence italy
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what level before hell was saved for the indifferent?
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the vestibule
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when does dante stop feeling pity?
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once he crosses archeron
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she-wolf
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lack of control, lust
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darkwood
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sin
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darkness
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absence of god
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sun
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presence of god
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eternal
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hell
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last circle of upper hell?
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5th circle
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phlegyas
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boatman of styx
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two models for inferno?
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bible and aenid
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3 divisions of divine comedy represent
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the holy trinity
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leopard
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fraud
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lion
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pride
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straight way
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course of the just man leading to god
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the 2nd death
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eternal damnation
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hell was damaged when
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christ was crucified
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virgil
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voice of all reason
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dante
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speaking for all sinners
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