That's What I Figured

When I was in my Sophomore year of college, I had to read Dante's Divine Comedy (which means Inferno/Hell, Purgatory & Paradise). I got through all of (and out of) Hell with our guide, Virgil. I made it about halfway through Purgatory, and then got really really bored and pretty much started faking it. I didn't read hardly any of Paradisio-- which, in many ways, is a boring repetition of Purgatory. I figured that said something about the state of my soul. (I got a good grade on the exam, though! Wooh!)

So this morning, after seeing the quiz on Terry's site, I tried Dante's Inferno test. I answered as honestly as possible... and I got these results. Which pretty much match up with what my record of reading Dante shows. Pretty funny! If it makes you feel any better and you haven't read Dante, Purgatory is only moderately less bad than Hell. You suffer pretty much the same torments, but there's "hope" for you to be saved (which mostly has to do with the simple act of believing in God & feeling bad about your sins.) But Purgatory is still a place of punishment, according to Dante, where your sins are purged (get it-- PURG-atory) from you through torment. In Hell, you're just tormented, and have no chance of getting out. In Paradise, according to Dante, you pretty much just sit around all the time trying to be even better & get to a higher level of boring sitting around trying to be good. (And there is a lot of singing.) Sort of like American Idol.

The Dante's Inferno Test has sent you to Purgatory!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	High
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	High
Level 2 (Lustful)	Moderate
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	Low
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	Very Low
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	Very Low
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Very Low
Level 7 (Violent)	Low
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	Low
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	Very Low

Take the Dante's Inferno Test