Cantos 1-3

Assignment
Dantes Inferno

Carolyn Tso-Kuhl

Question # 1
Dante is 35 at the beginning of the story
This is said in the first sentence of the narration, Midway in his allotted threescore years
and ten

Question # 2
He is wandering alone in a dark forest.
Lines 1-3

Question # 3
He lost his way and stumbled into the dark forest, pursued by a she-wolf, a lion and a
leopard.
Lines 33-49

Question # 4
He is terrified of where he has found himself to be.
Lines 85-87

Question # 5
He is writing this book because he has been exiled from Florence and is doing a bit of soul
searching.
Found in Introduction

Question # 6

Dante encounters a she-wolf, a lion and a leopard.

Lines 33-49

Question # 7
Dante knew Virgil from his poetry.
Lines 77-78

Question # 8
Virgil tells Dante to turn his life around and go through hell to get to heaven.
Lines 105-121

Question # 9
Dante mentions the Greyhound.
Lines 95-98

Question # 11
Virgil cannot exit from his portion of hell since it is forbidden.
Lines 115-119