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Dante was a native of what European land whose vernacular language he helped to develop?
Italy
Spain
England
Poland
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What province of Italy was Dante's home until he was exiled from it following a political upheaval?
Cremona
Florence
Asti
Belluno
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What is the collective name of Dante's series of texts in which a fictional version of himself traversed the Christian realms of the afterlife?
The Divine Comedy
The Iliad
St. Bartholomew's Day
The Vulgate Cycle
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What is the name of the first text of the Divine Comedy in which Dante travels through Hell?
Inferno
Lacrimosa
Requiem
Dies Irae
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Dante was exiled from Florence because he was a member of what political faction that opposed the Black Guelphs and their vision of granting the Pope great control over Florence?
The White Guelphs
The Limerick Party
The Prosperity Sphere
The Verdant Horizon
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What famous poet guided Dante through Hell in Inferno?
Virgil
Homer
Sophocles
David
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How many circles made up Hell in Dante's Inferno?
3
5
7
9
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At the end of Inferno, Dante reveals that the bottom circle of Hell is meant to punish what sin?
Sloth
Greed
Lust
Treachery
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At the bottom circle of Hell, Dante depicted Satan gnawing on all of the following famous betrayers except whom?
Brutus
Horus
Cassius
Judas
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Dante and the poets Boccaccio and Petrarch, are commonly known by what collective nickname that refers to their impact on Italian literature?
The Three Towers
The Three Words
The Three Swords
The Three Crowns
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What is the name of the second text of the Divine Comedy which detailed Dante's journey through Purgatory?
Consequencia
Purgatorio
Voidies
Astra
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What is the name of the third and final text of the Divine Comedy where Dante traveled through Heaven?
Paradiso
Heavenum
Hosana
Salvacion
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What is the name of the lady, whom Dante had affection for in real life before her passing, that guides Dante through much of Heavan in Paradiso?
Beatrice
Reanelle
Lucrezia
Ophelia
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What Saint of Clairvaux acted as Dante's final guide in Paradiso helping the poet to return to Earth?
St. Pius I
St. Alexandros
St. Dominic
St. Bernard
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The tomb of Dante Alighieri is located in what Italian city that is the capital of the province of Ravenna?
Lorranz
Ravenna
Venice
Rome
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