Friday's Assignment

When you finish reading through the "Virtual Tour of Dante's Hell" and posting your two comments per section, move to the posts for today. You will need your literature book.

Open to page 659. You will be reading and answering the questions in the yellow boxes. Each question is posted on the blog, so you do not have to hand write your answers. Type them. The first person to answer the question correctly will get extra points. If the question has been answered when you get there, your responsibility is to comment on that post, to add a quote that supports or refutes it, ask a thought-provoking question, or answer someone else's thought-provoking question.

If you do not finish this assignment today, it is for homework. Since the questions are in your book, you may complete the on the blog or as handwritten answers.

Lines 1-12

Dante enters the last circle of Hell and sees the fearsome sight of Satan.

According to Dante, what is this final circle of Hell?

Lines 22-27

Why does Dante ask the reader to "imagine for yourself what I became"?

Lines 37-57

How many faces does Stan have, and what colors are they? What are his wings like? What is his "eternal dinner"?

Lines 61-68

Who are the three sinners being chewed by Satan? What sin have theses greatest of all sinners committed?

Line 84

What are the "stairs" to which Virgil refers?

Line 93

What is Dante perplexed by?

Lines 115-117

115-117. Why do you think Dante mentions Christ at this point in the poem?

Lines 136-143

136-143. Dante and Virgil emerge from Hell. What might the stars symbolize in these lines?

"The Dark Wood of Error"

The Vestibule: "Opportunists"

Circle One: "The Virtuous Pagans"

Circle Two: "The Lustful"

Circle Three: "The Gluttonous"

Circle Four: "Hoarders and Wasters"

Circle Five: "The Wrathful"

Circle Six: "The Heretics"

Circle Seven: "The Violent"

Circle Eight: "The Fraudulent"

Circle Nine: "The Treacherous"