The Dunciad Quizzes

The Dunciad Quiz: Book 1

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

Daughter of Chaos and Eternal Night

Saturnian Queen

Great Mother

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

Whitehall

Smithfield

Newcastle

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

Thorold

Eusden

Caxton

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

Fortitude

Poetic Justice

Prudence

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

Give up writing

Use common sense

Critique Pope

Write poorly about Dulness
6 What symbol marks Bayes' coronation as King of Dulness?

Dulness' bird

A sheet of Thule

A fire

A fog
7 What is the poetic genre of The Dunciad?

Free Verse

Mock Heroic

Epic

Sonnet
8 What does Dulness use to put out Bayes' fire?

Her great fog

Water from the river Styx

Sheet of Thule

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

Gaming

Tutoring

the Church

Party-Writing
10 What does Bayes make in this book?

A pen after the Dæmon stole his

A throne for him to sit upon as King

A printing press for printing Dulness' works

An altar for sacrificing
11 What covers Dulness' face?

A mask

Darkness

Fog

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

Cibber

King Colley

King Log

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

Britannia

Dulness

Fate

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?

Tercets

Sextets

Stanzas

Rhyming Couplets
16 Under Dulness, what does Pope say happens between Prologues and Prefaces, Tragedy and Comedy, and Epics and Farces?

They fight one another

They have nothing to do with each other

They care for one another

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

Bayes' Birth-Day

Hera Day

The evening of Lord Mayor's Day

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

Molière

Dennis

Fletcher

Shakespeare
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?

Genius

Pertness

Wittiness

Sloth
21 What does Dulness anoint Bayes with?

Ink

Opium

Oil

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?

Die

Fly

Appoint the Successor to the Poet Laureate

Conquer Britain
24 Dulness sees a "Mob of" what advance?

Mysteries

Metaphors

Writers

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

Novels

Magazines

Merceries

Miscellanies

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