The Dunciad Quizzes

The Dunciad Quiz: Book 1

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

Saturnian Queen

Mighty Mother

Daughter of Chaos and Eternal Night

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

Smithfield

Greece

Newcastle

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

Molière

Thorold

Caxton

Eusden
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?

Give up writing

Use common sense

Write poorly about Dulness

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

A fog

Dulness' bird

A sheet of Thule

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?

Sheet of Thule

Water from the river Styx

Her great fog

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

Tutoring

Gaming

Party-Writing

the Church
10 What does Bayes make in this book?

A pen after the Dæmon stole his

A printing press for printing Dulness' works

An altar for sacrificing

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

Fog

A mask

Darkness

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

King Colley

Ogilby

Cibber

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

Dulness

Jove

Fate

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

The classics of an age

A folio of all of his works

Twelve volumes of amplest size

A Birth-day Ode
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?

May Day

Bayes' Birth-Day

The evening of Lord Mayor's Day

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

Dennis

Molière

Fletcher

Shakespeare
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?

Sloth

Genius

Wittiness

Pertness
21 What does Dulness anoint Bayes with?

Opium

Holy Water

Ink

Oil
22 Pope refers to the influence of all of these countries EXCEPT...

France

Egypt

Germany

Greece
23 What is one thing Dulness cannot do?

Die

Appoint the Successor to the Poet Laureate

Fly

Conquer Britain
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?

Miscellanies

Merceries

Novels

Magazines

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