Purgatorio Quizzes

Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Purgatorio? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. What happens every time a penitent soul becomes purged?


The sky fills with smoke
Mount Purgatory trembles
They cut away from the regularly scheduled Purgatory Network programming to bring you a breaking news special report
Purgatory is flooded with a brilliant and ephemeral light
Q. About what does Bonagiunta da Lucca talk with Dante?


Poetry
Free will
Heaven
His rapidly declining job performance
Q. What souls are in the seventh and final terrace of Purgatory?


The Flatulent
The Gluttonous
The Avaricious
The Lustful
Q. What does Beatrice rebuke Dante for doing?


Refusing to walk through a wall of flames
Not finishing his vegetables
Entering the Earthly Paradise without permission
Crying over Virgil’s disappearance
Q. What does Matilda do to Dante at the end of the book?


She erases his mind
She immerses him in water
She slices his hands with a sword
She offers him a three-picture deal with merchandising rights