Dante's Inferno | Canto 26 Questions and Answers

Study Questions
1. Dante begins Canto XXVI with irony. Describe this irony.

2. How are the Counselors of Fraud punished?

3. What does Virgil think of Dante’s desire to speak to the flame?

4. Does Dante get to ask his questions?

5. Who is the flame who tells them of his travels?

6. What was the Palladium?

7. How was Eteocles killed?

8. What was unusual about the funeral pyre of Eteocles and his brother?

9. How was Ulysses killed?

10. What...


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