A. The planets
B. The seven deadly sins
C. The augustan calendar
D. The seven sacraments
A. The ability to move from purgatory into heaven
B. The translation of culture from one civilization to another
C. The movement from one circle of hell to another
D. The idea that the punishment fits the crime
A. The punishments prevent hope from being reborn in sinners.
B. The punishments keep the sinners from entering the path to salvation.
C. The punishments allow the sinners to purge their sins.
D. The punishments remind the sinners that they are damned to hell.
A. Rachel and leah
B. Brutus and cassius
C. Dido and aeneas
D. Pope boniface and pope clement
A. He must be allowed by cerberus to pass.
B. He must walk through an immense wall of flames.
C. He must be escorted into the terrace by an angelic messenger.
D. He must first be ferried across the river lethe.
A. Purgatory is less future-oriented.
B. Purgatory is a place of redemptive intervention.
C. Purgatory includes references to time.
D. Purgatory is less rooted in the human, natural world.
A. The penitent life
B. The afterlife existence for mortal sinners
C. The heavenly paradise
D. The earthly paradise
A. The souls of those who are ready to enter heaven
B. The souls of those who are not yet ready to purge their sins
C. The souls of those who are about to enter hell
D. The souls of the repentant who are punished for their sins
A. The poet’s attempt to climb the mountain
B. The poet’s attempt to find his way back to florence from jerusalem
C. The poet’s descent into hell
D. The poet’s tour of earthly paradise
A. Francesca
B. Judas
C. Ciacco
D. Alberigo