SOME QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER …

Are Dante the pilgrim, and Dante the poet the same person?

What does the pilgrim set out to do?

Who is Virgil, and why is he important to the pilgrim and the poet?

What adjectives describe the setting of the Inferno?

Do the punishments match the sins? Think of the woods of suicide as example.

What is the gravest sin, according to Dante?

How is fraud depicted?