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Those that buy and sell ecclesiastical pardons are called ___.
Simoniacs
Flatterers
Seducers
Usurers
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What is the Eighth Circle known as?
Dis
Malebolge
Styx
Geryon
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What is the punishment for Astrologers, Diviners, and Magicians?
To walk in hot sand
To look backward forever
To become trees
To become constellations
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What is the punishment for Flatterers?
To live in excrement
To be burned by flames
To eat one another
To have no reflection
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Which other medieval poet famously condemned the church's indulgences?
Julian of Norwich
John Gower
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