Divine Comedy quiz
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What traps Satan at the bottom of Hell?
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Who hangs head-first from Satan's middle mouth?
Answer: Judas
Why: Satan's two side mouths chew Brutus and Cassius, the leaders of the plot that killed Julius Caesar.
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What does Minos wrap around himself to sentence sinners?
Answer: His tail
Why: Each coil counts: the number of times the tail wraps around him tells the soul which circle it must go down to.
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Who praises Saint Francis in the heaven of the Sun?
Answer: Thomas Aquinas
Why: Next the Franciscan Bonaventure praises Saint Dominic, so each order's great teacher honors the other order's founder.
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Who leads the poets who greet Dante in Limbo?
Answer: Homer
Why: Those poets then make Dante one of their own band, so he counts himself sixth among such great minds.
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Why is Dante's poem called a comedy?
Answer: A happy ending
Why: The label also fit its style, since a comedy used humble everyday speech, and Dante wrote in Italian rather than Latin.
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What raised Mount Purgatory out of the sea?
Answer: Satan's fall
Why: Purgatory stands in the southern ocean, on the exact opposite side of the globe from Jerusalem.
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