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Inferno X-XIII
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Undergraduate 1
03/20/2013

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Who is in the 6th circle
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Heretics
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The particular group that pursued please and did not believe in the afterlife
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Epicureans
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What the voice addressed Dante as
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A Tuscan
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Who calls on Dante
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Fari-nata, a political leader of Dante's time
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Who interrupts Dante and the voice
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Cavelcante d' Calvelcanti, father of Dante's friend Guido
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Why Guido did not come
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He holds Virgil/God in disdain
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Part of Heretics punishment
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They can see the future but not present
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What Florentine predicts
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Dante's exile from Florence
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What stops V and D at the outside of the seventh circle
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A stentch
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Where they go to adjust
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Pope Ana-Stas-ius
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Subdivisions of 7th circle
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Violence against neighbor, self, God
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Worse than violence/8 and 9 circle
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Fraud, because it breaks trust and opposes the virtue of love
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8th circle (3)
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"normal fraud": trust between people- flattery and hypocrisy
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9th circle (7)
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set of Dis; betrayal/breaking special trust; loyalty to kin, party, benefactors, guests, country
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3 dispositions of God's will according to who
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Incontinence, malice, insane brutality
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Why usury is a sin
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Usurers make their money not from an art of skill as Genesis says to but from making money more money
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What stops them at the 7th circle
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A minotaur
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What the river of blood is
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Where those who sin against their neighbor boil
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Who guards the river of blood
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Centaurs with bows and arrows
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What the centaurs do
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Shoot anyone who rises their head out of the blood higher than their sin merits
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