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?
Newcastle

Smithfield

Greece

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

Thorold

Eusden

Caxton
4 Which of these is NOT one of the four guardian Virtues that support Dulness?
Poetic Justice

Valiance

Fortitude

Prudence
5 What does Bayes claim a Dæmon made him do?
Give up writing

Critique Pope

Use common sense

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

A fog

Dulness' bird

A fire
7 What is the poetic genre of The Dunciad?
Free Verse

Epic

Sonnet

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

Sheet of Thule

Her tears

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

Gaming

the Church

Tutoring
10 What does Bayes make in this book?
A throne for him to sit upon as King

An altar for sacrificing

A printing press for printing Dulness' works

A pen after the Dæmon stole his
11 What covers Dulness' face?
Darkness

A silk veil

Fog

A mask
12 Which of these is NOT a name used to refer to Bayes?
Cibber

King Colley

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?
Twelve volumes of amplest size

The classics of an age

A Birth-day Ode

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

Tercets

Sextets

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

They have nothing to do with each other

They care for one another

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

Bayes' Birth-Day

The evening of Lord Mayor's Day

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

Molière

Shakespeare

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

Criticism

Emptiness

Wisdom
20 Dulness says she was once called another name. What is it?
Genius

Pertness

Sloth

Wittiness
21 What does Dulness anoint Bayes with?
Holy Water

Ink

Opium

Oil
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

Conquer Britain

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

Writers

Similes

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

Miscellanies

Merceries

Novels

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