Locked LessonsInferno escape rooms
6 self-checking escape rooms on Inferno by Dante, one for each section. Every answer comes from the text, so each room checks reading as well as recall, and they work with any edition. For grades 9–12, classical homeschoolers and literature classes.
No logins and nothing to install. Try the first two locks of any room free. See all the classics escape rooms.
Inferno · Cantos 1–6Through the GateFree taster
Inferno · Cantos 7–12The Burning CityFree taster
Inferno · Cantos 13–17The Wood and the SandFree taster
Inferno · Cantos 18–23The Evil DitchesFree taster
Inferno · Cantos 24–29Tongues of FlameFree taster
Inferno · Cantos 30–34The Frozen LakeFree tasterRoom by room
- Cantos 1–6: Through the Gate. Dante lost in the wood, the three beasts and the coming of Virgil, the heavenly ladies who sent him, the gate and the souls who never took a side, Charon and the river, Limbo and the great poets, Minos and the lovers in the storm, and Cerberus and the gluttons.
- Cantos 7–12: The Burning City. The misers and spendthrifts, Virgil's words on Fortune, the angry souls in the Styx, the boatman Phlegyas, the gates of Dis and the Furies, the messenger from heaven, the heretics in their tombs, Farinata and Cavalcante, Virgil's map of hell, and the Minotaur and the centaurs by the river of blood.
- Cantos 13–17: The Wood and the Sand. The wood of those who took their own lives and the Harpies, Pier delle Vigne, the spendthrifts hunted by hounds, the burning sand and Capaneus, the Old Man of Crete and the rivers of hell, Dante's meeting with his old teacher, the three Florentines, and the flight down on Geryon.
- Cantos 18–23: The Evil Ditches. Malebolge and its ditches, the seducers whipped by devils, the churchmen who sold holy things, the seers with their heads turned backwards and the story of Mantua, the grafters and the devils with hooks, the trick of the sinner from Navarre, the escape, and the hypocrites in their heavy cloaks.
- Cantos 24–29: Tongues of Flame. The hard climb out, the thieves and the serpents, Vanni Fucci and the centaur Cacus, the strange changes of shape, Ulysses and Diomedes in one flame and Ulysses' last voyage, Guido da Montefeltro and the pope's false pardon, the sowers of discord, and the falsifiers in the last ditch.
- Cantos 30–34: The Frozen Lake. The falsifiers and the quarrel of Master Adam and Sinon, the giants round the pit, the frozen lake of Cocytus and its zones for traitors, Count Ugolino and the archbishop, Fra Alberigo, Lucifer with his three faces, and the climb out to see the stars.