The Dunciad Quizzes

The Dunciad Quiz: Book 1

1 Which of these is NOT a title used to refer to Dulness?
Mighty Mother

Saturnian Queen

Daughter of Chaos and Eternal Night

Great Mother
2 What specific geographic region does Pope give the most attention to?
Greece

Whitehall

Newcastle

Smithfield
3 What is the name of the poet laureate whose death Dulness announces?
Eusden

Caxton

Molière

Thorold
4 Which of these is NOT one of the four guardian Virtues that support Dulness?
Fortitude

Prudence

Poetic Justice

Valiance
5 What does Bayes claim a Dæmon made him do?
Critique Pope

Write poorly about Dulness

Use common sense

Give up writing
6 What symbol marks Bayes' coronation as King of Dulness?
A fog

Dulness' bird

A fire

A sheet of Thule
7 What is the poetic genre of The Dunciad?
Mock Heroic

Epic

Sonnet

Free Verse
8 What does Dulness use to put out Bayes' fire?
Her tears

Her great fog

Water from the river Styx

Sheet of Thule
9 Which of these is NOT one of the fields Bayes considers turning to should he give up writing?
Party-Writing

Gaming

Tutoring

the Church
10 What does Bayes make in this book?
A printing press for printing Dulness' works

A throne for him to sit upon as King

A pen after the Dæmon stole his

An altar for sacrificing
11 What covers Dulness' face?
A mask

Fog

Darkness

A silk veil
12 Which of these is NOT a name used to refer to Bayes?
King Colley

King Log

Ogilby

Cibber
13 Who does NOT call those Pope is critiquing to their work?
Britannia

Fate

Dulness

Jove
14 What makes up the foundation of Bayes' offering?
The classics of an age

Twelve volumes of amplest size

A Birth-day Ode

A folio of all of his works
15 What basic poetic structure is The Dunciad composed of?
Stanzas

Rhyming Couplets

Sextets

Tercets
16 Under Dulness, what does Pope say happens between Prologues and Prefaces, Tragedy and Comedy, and Epics and Farces?
They fight one another

They care for one another

They have nothing to do with each other

They blend into one another
17 On what day does Dulness select Bayes to be her instrument?
Hera Day

The evening of Lord Mayor's Day

May Day

Bayes' Birth-Day
18 Who does Bayes NOT claim to have plaigarized from?
Fletcher

Dennis

Shakespeare

Molière
19 Bayes says he is inspired by both Dulness and who else?
Emptiness

Eloquence

Wisdom

Criticism
20 Dulness says she was once called another name. What is it?
Sloth

Pertness

Genius

Wittiness
21 What does Dulness anoint Bayes with?
Oil

Ink

Opium

Holy Water
22 Pope refers to the influence of all of these countries EXCEPT...
Germany

Greece

France

Egypt
23 What is one thing Dulness cannot do?
Conquer Britain

Fly

Die

Appoint the Successor to the Poet Laureate
24 Dulness sees a "Mob of" what advance?
Mysteries

Writers

Similes

Metaphors
25 Which of these does Pope NOT mark as a form of writing plagued so often by Dulness?
Magazines

Novels

Merceries

Miscellanies

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