The Dunciad Quizzes

The Dunciad Quiz: Book 1

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

Daughter of Chaos and Eternal Night

Saturnian Queen

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

Smithfield

Newcastle

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

Caxton

Thorold

Molière
4 Which of these is NOT one of the four guardian Virtues that support Dulness?
Prudence

Valiance

Poetic Justice

Fortitude
5 What does Bayes claim a Dæmon made him do?
Write poorly about Dulness

Use common sense

Give up writing

Critique Pope
6 What symbol marks Bayes' coronation as King of Dulness?
A fire

A fog

Dulness' bird

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

Sonnet

Free Verse

Epic
8 What does Dulness use to put out Bayes' fire?
Water from the river Styx

Sheet of Thule

Her great fog

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

Tutoring

Gaming

the Church
10 What does Bayes make in this book?
An altar for sacrificing

A pen after the Dæmon stole his

A throne for him to sit upon as King

A printing press for printing Dulness' works
11 What covers Dulness' face?
A silk veil

A mask

Fog

Darkness
12 Which of these is NOT a name used to refer to Bayes?
King Colley

Cibber

Ogilby

King Log
13 Who does NOT call those Pope is critiquing to their work?
Jove

Fate

Britannia

Dulness
14 What makes up the foundation of Bayes' offering?
A Birth-day Ode

Twelve volumes of amplest size

The classics of an age

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

Stanzas

Tercets

Sextets
16 Under Dulness, what does Pope say happens between Prologues and Prefaces, Tragedy and Comedy, and Epics and Farces?
They have nothing to do with each other

They blend into one another

They fight one another

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

The evening of Lord Mayor's Day

Bayes' Birth-Day

May Day
18 Who does Bayes NOT claim to have plaigarized from?
Fletcher

Shakespeare

Molière

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

Criticism

Wisdom

Eloquence
20 Dulness says she was once called another name. What is it?
Wittiness

Genius

Pertness

Sloth
21 What does Dulness anoint Bayes with?
Oil

Opium

Ink

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

Egypt

Greece

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

Appoint the Successor to the Poet Laureate

Fly

Die
24 Dulness sees a "Mob of" what advance?
Metaphors

Mysteries

Similes

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

Magazines

Merceries

Novels

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