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

Greece

Whitehall

Smithfield
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?
Valiance

Prudence

Poetic Justice

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

Write poorly about Dulness

Give up writing

Use common sense
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?
Mock Heroic

Sonnet

Epic

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

Water from the river Styx

Sheet of Thule

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

the Church

Tutoring

Gaming
10 What does Bayes make in this book?
A pen after the Dæmon stole his

An altar for sacrificing

A printing press for printing Dulness' works

A throne for him to sit upon as King
11 What covers Dulness' face?
Darkness

A mask

A silk veil

Fog
12 Which of these is NOT a name used to refer to Bayes?
Ogilby

Cibber

King Colley

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

Britannia

Dulness

Jove
14 What makes up the foundation of Bayes' offering?
Twelve volumes of amplest size

A Birth-day Ode

The classics of an age

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

Tercets

Rhyming Couplets

Stanzas
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 care for one another

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

Hera Day

The evening of Lord Mayor's Day

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

Molière

Dennis

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

Criticism

Eloquence

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

Sloth

Genius

Pertness
21 What does Dulness anoint Bayes with?
Opium

Oil

Ink

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

Egypt

France

Germany
23 What is one thing Dulness cannot do?
Fly

Conquer Britain

Die

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

Mysteries

Metaphors

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

Magazines

Novels

Merceries

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