Grammar Questions for Week of 1/8/07

Canto 18
1. Where does Geryon take Virgil and Dante to? (lines 1-19)
2. What is the name given to this place and what does it mean? Note you need to
look in the footnotes to find the meaning.
3. What description is given of this place in lines 1-19?
4. What two groups of people are seen in the first pouch? Describe what they are
doing and what their punishment is.
5. Who is in the 2nd pouch and what is their punishment? (lines 93f)

Canto 19
1. Simon Magus is a Biblical character. Tell me about him and where in scripture we find his story.
2. In this canto Dante talks to a man being punished in the 3rd pouch. What group
is punished here and what is their punishment?
3. What 3 popes are referred to in this canto as being guilty of simony? Does
history support that claim?
4. Are lines 85-90 scripturally correct? If so what scriptures support these lines?

5. Did Dante feel pity for Nicholas III? (lines 91-94)
6. Who does Dante say the whore in Rev. 17:1-4 is? (lines 100-102) Does this
agree with what Pastor Swartz taught?

Canto 20
1. The 4th pouch of the 8th circle is visited in this canto. What group of sinners are
there and what is their punishment.
2. Why did Virgil rebuke Dante in lines 19-20? Is this rebuke Biblically correct?
3. Did you enjoy the anatomical descriptions given in this canto?

Canto 21
1. The 5th pouch of the 8th circle is visited in this canto. Who is punished here and
what is their punishment?
2. What is the sacred face in line 49?
3. Describe the demon who threw the sinner into the pouch. (lines 28-31)
4. Why did they have to change their path a little? (105-110)
5. Give the meaning of the following names: Malebolge, Malebranche, Malacoda.
6. What signal was given by the demons and then what signal was given by their leader at the end of this canto?

Canto 22
1. In what pouch does the action of this canto take place?
2. Summarize the action in this canto after the shade from Navarre was caught.

Canto 23
1. How did Virgil and Dante escape from the angry demons of pouch 5 who had
had their victim escape back into the boiling pitch?
2. Who is punished in the 6th pouch and what is their punishment?
3. Who is trampled underfoot in this pouch? (lines 106-118)

Cantos 24 & 25
1. These cantos are difficult to follow. The footnote to 25:137-139 suggests that
this may have been on purpose. Seven specific thieves are referred to—the 1st
only in canto 24 and all 7 in canto 25. Name all seven.
2. Who is punished in 7th pouch and what is their punishment. .