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

Mighty Mother

Saturnian Queen

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

Newcastle

Whitehall

Smithfield

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

Caxton

Thorold

Eusden

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

Poetic Justice

Prudence

Valiance

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

Give up writing

Write poorly about Dulness

Use common sense

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

Dulness' bird

A fire

A fog

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

Free Verse

Mock Heroic

Sonnet

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

Water from the river Styx

Her great fog

Sheet of Thule

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

the Church

Tutoring

Party-Writing

Gaming
10 What does Bayes make in this book?

A pen after the Dæmon stole his

A printing press for printing Dulness' works

A throne for him to sit upon as King

An altar for sacrificing
11 What covers Dulness' face?

Fog

A silk veil

Darkness

A mask
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?

Dulness

Britannia

Fate

Jove
14 What makes up the foundation of Bayes' offering?

A Birth-day Ode

Twelve volumes of amplest size

A folio of all of his works

The classics of an age
15 What basic poetic structure is The Dunciad composed of?

Stanzas

Sextets

Rhyming Couplets

Tercets
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?

May Day

Hera Day

Bayes' Birth-Day

The evening of Lord Mayor's Day
18 Who does Bayes NOT claim to have plaigarized from?

Dennis

Fletcher

Molière

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

Emptiness

Eloquence

Criticism

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

Pertness

Genius

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...

Greece

Germany

Egypt

France
23 What is one thing Dulness cannot do?

Die

Conquer Britain

Appoint the Successor to the Poet Laureate

Fly
24 Dulness sees a "Mob of" what advance?

Metaphors

Similes

Writers

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

Merceries

Novels

Miscellanies

Magazines

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