Canto I-III Assignment

Option A

1.How old is Dante?

Dante is 35 years old in Canto I.

Midway in our lifes journey(1)

2.Where is Dante?
Dante is in the Dark Wood of error.
I went astray from the straight road and
woke to find myself alone in a dark
wood.(1-3)

3.Why/How did he arrive there?

He woke up and find himself there
I went astray from the straight road and
woke to find myself alone in a dark
wood.(1-3)

4.How did he feel?

Dante is frightened.
I never saw so drear, so rank, so arduous a
wilderness!(4-5)

5.Why he is writing this book?

Dante wrote this book in order to reveal Gods
grace
But since it came to good,I will recount all
that I found revealed there by Gods
grace.(8-9)

6.What are the three animals that

Dante encounter?
Leopard,Lion and Wolf.
I faced a spotted Leopard,all tremor and flow and
gaudy pelt.(33-34)

Yet not so much but what I shook with dread at sight of

a great lion that broke upon me raging with
hunger,(43-44)

And down his track, a She-wolf drove upon me,(47-48)

7.How did Dante already know

Virgil?
Virgil was a great poet and Dante read his
poem before.
And are you then that Virgil and that
fountain of purest speech?(77-78)

8.What advice does Virgil give to

Dante?
Follow him.
Therefore, for your own good, I think it well
you follow me and I will be your
guide.(105-107)

9.What is the animal Virgil mentions?What

purpose will the coming of this animal fulfill?

She-Wolf, Which suppose to Harry all to

Death.(pg.9)

10.Why must Virgil entrust Dante to someone

else for the third part of the journey?

Because Virgil rebelled against his law.

who reigns on high, forbids me to come there
since, living, I rebelled against his law.(117-119)