Please help me on this fast! Oh! No mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived.

The Divine Comedy: Inferno

by Dante Alighieri (excerpt)

From the first circle I descended thus

Down to the second, which, a lesser space

Embracing, so much more of grief contains

Provoking bitter moans. There, Minos stands

Grinning with ghastly feature: he, of all

Who enter, strict examining the crimes,

When they arrive before the ruinous sweep,

There shrieks are heard, there lamentations, moans,

And blasphemies 'gainst the good Power in heaven.

Select all the correct answers.

Read the excerpts from Frankenstein and The Divine Comedy. The first excerpt describes the reaction of the character Victor Frankenstein to a monster he has created. The second excerpt describes the character Dante’s encounter with King Minos and other creatures as he journeys through hell. Which two statements correctly describe the connection between these two excerpts?

1.Both narrators describe gazing upon a hideous being.

2.Frankenstein believes his monster to be even more gruesome looking than the creatures Dante faced in hell.

3.Frankenstein’s monster reminds him of Minos from Dante’s Inferno.

4.Minos from Dante’s Inferno and Frankenstein’s monster are one and the same.

5.Frankenstein purposely creates a monster that physically represents the creatures in Dante’s Inferno.