"Inferno": oral quiz in class
1. Where is the virus located? Be more specific with the name of the tourist spot.
2. For what special occasion for the tourists populated in this place by the time Professor and WHO reached there?
3. Why Istanbul was chosen as the hidden place by the psycho?
4. Who was the bad guy in WHO in the film? The black guy or the woman head?
5. Do you think the romance between Elizabeth, the WHO woman head, and Professor Langdon, like Beatrice and Dante, is necessary?
6. What happened to Beatrice and Dante? Why does it matter?
7. Why does the Mickey Mouse watch mean a lot to Professor Langdon? From whom did he get it?
8. Do you feel sorry for Sienna Brook, a young ER doctor with quaint knowledge and frenzied affection on a weirdo but with no bookish temperament and scholar style like Alissa, the notorious alumna youtuber?
9. The secret organization hired by the psycho scientist and Sienna is controversial. What’s your opinion on that? Do you believe the non-governmental or non-official institutes or people like secret agencies or private investigators need to be existed to balance the forces or to protect people? Or, most of the time, they are getting loose because nobody is watching or evaluate them?
10. “The Inferno” begins in Florence and ends in Istanbul. The dome and the minarets of the famous tourist spot are the symbols of the Istanbul. This is the only building to have to serve as a Catholic cathedral and as the seat of two religion, Greek Orthodox Christianity and Sunni Islam. Identify the name of the tourist spot, just like Professor Langdon could tell where he was by the sight of the Florence tower.
potential answer keys:
1. The sunken palace (Basilica Cistern)
2. Summer solstice concert
3. The meeting place of the east and the west
https://www.istanbulview.com/istanbul-secrets-revealed-in-dan-browns-latest-novel-inferno/
https://www.florenceinferno.com/the-city-of-istanbul/