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Who is Dante's guide through Hell in "Inferno?"
Dante Alighieri
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In Dante's Inferno, how many heads does Satan have?
Inferno
Dante Alighieri
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What was the name of the woman from Florence who inspired Dante?
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Dante's Divine Comedy was originally titled what?
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All three books in Dante's "Divine Comedy" end with the same word. What is it?
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What do you call the literary device where a reference to something else (typically a place, a person, or another work of literature) is used to convey a particular meaning, but it is left to the reader to make the actual connection?
(E.g., "I had not thought death had undone so many" -- from The Waste Land, by T.S. Eliot -- contains such a reference to "An interminable train of souls pressed on, so many that I wondered how death could have undone so many" from Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy Part 1: Inferno.)
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In Dante's Inferno, which sin receives the harshest punishment?
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In what language were the first limericks composed, according to poet John Ciardi in the foreword to Limericks—Too Gross?
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What fate do false prophets encounter in Inferno by Dante Alighieri?
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Where, in Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso, is Limbo located?
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According to Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso, which of the following groups of people are sent to Limbo after they die?
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The title of Isaac Asimov's novel The Gods Themselves is taken from a quotation by which author?
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Who (possibly in translation) described critics in the following unflattering terms?
"Those chicken-hearted chicken-shits
Jerk off their weak and venomous wits"
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"Cerberus, monster cruel and uncouth,
With his three gullets like a dog is barking
Over the people that are there submerged.
Red eyes he has, and unctuous beard and black,
And belly large, and armed with claws his hands;
He rends the spirits, flays, and quarters them.
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When Cerberus perceived us, the great worm!
His mouths he opened, and displayed his tusks;
Not a limb had he that was motionless.
And my Conductor, with his spans extended,
Took of the earth, and with his fists well filled,
He threw it into those rapacious gullets."
Who wrote this?
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Which of these characters does NOT appear in Dante Alighieri's The Inferno?
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Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso) was Dante Alighieri's epic poem's original title.
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Which mystery writer translated Dante's The Divine Comedy?
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Which famous epic poet (and his greatest work) does Pococurante, in Voltaire's Candide, describe as being "that barbarian who made a tedious commentary on the first chapter of Genesis in ten books of rugged verse. That clumsy imitator of the Greeks, who disfigures the creation and, instead of representing the Eternal Being, as Moses does, creating the universe at a word, makes the Messiah take a large pair of compasses from one of the cupboards of heaven to draw a plan of his intended work. Do you expect me to appreciate the man ... who disguises Lucifer first as a toad and then as a pigmy, who makes him repeat the same speeches a hundred times, and even argue about theology?"
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Who was the first American poet to have published a translation of Dante Alighieri's "The Divine Comedy"?
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The subject of the Auguste Rodin sculpture "The Thinker" was the poet Dante.
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Which of the following poets and their respective muses are mismatched?
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