Dante Exam 2 Purgatory Questions and
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First Terrace - ✔✔Pride
Second Terrace - ✔✔Envy
Third Terrace - ✔✔Wrath
Fourth Terrace - ✔✔Sloth
Fifth Terrace - ✔✔Avaricious / Prodigals
Sixth Terrace - ✔✔Gluttony
Seventh Terrace - ✔✔Lust
First section of Purgatory - ✔✔Ante-Purgatory
What's above the seventh terrace? - ✔✔Eden
Who guards the mountain of Purgatory? - ✔✔Cato of Utica. Suicide over
submission to Tyranny.
What does Cato represent? - ✔✔Freedom
What is purgatory? - ✔✔Second realm of Christian afterlife
Souls who died in God's grace
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,Fire and Purgatory - ✔✔Purging fire for souls who had habits of sin
How do sinners shorten their time in Purgatory? - ✔✔The prayers from
people on Earth.
When does Dante start his journey into Purgatory? - ✔✔Easter Sunday,
1300
Who are in Ante-Purgatory? - ✔✔Late repentants, excommunicated souls,
indolent, unabsolved, and rulers
Who are the indolent? - ✔✔ante-purg for apathy or laziness in repenting
Who are the unabsolved? - ✔✔Those who repented before they died.
Why are rulers in ante-purg? - ✔✔Because they had delayed repentance
bc of their political obligations
Four cardinal virtues: - ✔✔Prudence, justice, courage, temperance
Three theological virtues - ✔✔Faith, Hope, Charity
Where is Ante-Purgatory? - ✔✔Between the island's shoreline and the gate
of P.
Bea is represented by what planet? - ✔✔Venus. Canto I
How does Cato of Utica feel about his wife? - ✔✔Detached. "She's in hell.
Oh well."
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, Virgil makes mistakes because - ✔✔faith is superior to reason. V doesn't
have faith because he is reason.
What directions does Cato give Dante and V? - ✔✔Follow the sun. There
wasn't a sun in hell.
How do the sinners know D is human? - ✔✔He casts a shadow
Four kinds of interpretation - ✔✔literal
allegorical
moral
anagogical
the late repentants are singing - ✔✔in exit israel de Aegypto"
death / burial song
Who does Dante see in Ante-Purg / hugs? - ✔✔D's friend Casella.
River where souls wait for Purgatory's angel? - ✔✔Lazio / Tiber River
Contrapasso for late repentants? - ✔✔They took their time repenting, so in
Purgatory, they waste their time.
What excommunicated / kingly soul does Dante recognize? - ✔✔Manfred,
illegit son of F2 of SS.
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First Terrace - ✔✔Pride
Second Terrace - ✔✔Envy
Third Terrace - ✔✔Wrath
Fourth Terrace - ✔✔Sloth
Fifth Terrace - ✔✔Avaricious / Prodigals
Sixth Terrace - ✔✔Gluttony
Seventh Terrace - ✔✔Lust
First section of Purgatory - ✔✔Ante-Purgatory
What's above the seventh terrace? - ✔✔Eden
Who guards the mountain of Purgatory? - ✔✔Cato of Utica. Suicide over
submission to Tyranny.
What does Cato represent? - ✔✔Freedom
What is purgatory? - ✔✔Second realm of Christian afterlife
Souls who died in God's grace
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,Fire and Purgatory - ✔✔Purging fire for souls who had habits of sin
How do sinners shorten their time in Purgatory? - ✔✔The prayers from
people on Earth.
When does Dante start his journey into Purgatory? - ✔✔Easter Sunday,
1300
Who are in Ante-Purgatory? - ✔✔Late repentants, excommunicated souls,
indolent, unabsolved, and rulers
Who are the indolent? - ✔✔ante-purg for apathy or laziness in repenting
Who are the unabsolved? - ✔✔Those who repented before they died.
Why are rulers in ante-purg? - ✔✔Because they had delayed repentance
bc of their political obligations
Four cardinal virtues: - ✔✔Prudence, justice, courage, temperance
Three theological virtues - ✔✔Faith, Hope, Charity
Where is Ante-Purgatory? - ✔✔Between the island's shoreline and the gate
of P.
Bea is represented by what planet? - ✔✔Venus. Canto I
How does Cato of Utica feel about his wife? - ✔✔Detached. "She's in hell.
Oh well."
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, Virgil makes mistakes because - ✔✔faith is superior to reason. V doesn't
have faith because he is reason.
What directions does Cato give Dante and V? - ✔✔Follow the sun. There
wasn't a sun in hell.
How do the sinners know D is human? - ✔✔He casts a shadow
Four kinds of interpretation - ✔✔literal
allegorical
moral
anagogical
the late repentants are singing - ✔✔in exit israel de Aegypto"
death / burial song
Who does Dante see in Ante-Purg / hugs? - ✔✔D's friend Casella.
River where souls wait for Purgatory's angel? - ✔✔Lazio / Tiber River
Contrapasso for late repentants? - ✔✔They took their time repenting, so in
Purgatory, they waste their time.
What excommunicated / kingly soul does Dante recognize? - ✔✔Manfred,
illegit son of F2 of SS.
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