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Inferno

Dante Alighieri

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Cantos 18-20 Quiz

Further Study Cantos 18-20 Quiz

1 of 5
Those that buy and sell ecclesiastical pardons are called ___.

Simoniacs
Flatterers
Seducers
Usurers

2 of 5
What is the Eighth Circle known as?

Dis
Malebolge
Styx
Geryon

3 of 5
What is the punishment for Astrologers, Diviners, and Magicians?

To walk in hot sand
To look backward forever
To become trees
To become constellations

4 of 5
What is the punishment for Flatterers?

To live in excrement
To be burned by flames
To eat one another
To have no reflection

5 of 5
Which other medieval poet famously condemned the church's indulgences?

Julian of Norwich
John Gower
Shakespeare
Chaucer

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