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Dante's Inferno | Canto 8 Questions and Answers

Study Questions
1. Who rows the boat for Dante and Virgil?

2. What is the signal used to send for the oarsman?

3. What does the soul in the mud mean when he asks who is here before his time?

4. Why is the oarsman angry when he sees who has come for a ride?

5. What is the name of the soul in the mud who causes Dante to show anger?

6. What is Dante’s reaction to the pulling and hauling that Filippo Argenti receives?

7. Dante says at one point that his gentle father has left him. To whom is he referring?

8. What is the name of the city at which they...

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• - For teachers, the Dante's Inferno Lesson Plan.
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