Problem
1. The Divine Comedy actually consists of three parts, Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. With which Part is "Inferno" concerned?
2. Dante, his own main character, must travel through both hell and purgatory before he gets to Heaven. In each part he needs a different guide. Who acts as Dante's guide through hell?
3. Three beasts prevent Dante's return into the forest of life, a leopard, a lion, and a she-wolf. Since they block Dante's way, he enters into hell. What words are carved above the entrance? (English translation is okay.)
4. Describe any one layer of hell and the punishments endured by the persons trapped there.
5. Who is located at the bottom of hell with three faces each eating a traitor?
6. Dante's trip took three days, Good Friday, Saturday, and Easter Sunday. The poem is written in terza rima (a rhyme scheme based on three lines). What other uses of the number three have you observed in these questions?
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