The Dunciad Quizzes

The Dunciad Quiz: Book 1

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

Daughter of Chaos and Eternal Night

Saturnian Queen

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

Greece

Smithfield

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

Molière

Caxton

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

Fortitude

Valiance

Prudence
5 What does Bayes claim a Dæmon made him do?
Write poorly about Dulness

Critique Pope

Use common sense

Give up writing
6 What symbol marks Bayes' coronation as King of Dulness?
A fog

A sheet of Thule

A fire

Dulness' bird
7 What is the poetic genre of The Dunciad?
Mock Heroic

Epic

Free Verse

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

Sheet of Thule

Her tears

Water from the river Styx
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 printing press for printing Dulness' works

A throne for him to sit upon as King

A pen after the Dæmon stole his

An altar for sacrificing
11 What covers Dulness' face?
A mask

A silk veil

Fog

Darkness
12 Which of these is NOT a name used to refer to Bayes?
King Colley

Cibber

Ogilby

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 Birth-day Ode

Twelve volumes of amplest size

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

Stanzas

Tercets

Sextets
16 Under Dulness, what does Pope say happens between Prologues and Prefaces, Tragedy and Comedy, and Epics and Farces?
They care for one another

They have nothing to do with each other

They blend into one another

They fight 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?
Dennis

Shakespeare

Fletcher

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

Wisdom

Criticism

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

Wittiness

Pertness

Genius
21 What does Dulness anoint Bayes with?
Ink

Opium

Holy Water

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

Greece

Germany

Egypt
23 What is one thing Dulness cannot do?
Appoint the Successor to the Poet Laureate

Conquer Britain

Die

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

Mysteries

Writers

Metaphors
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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