The Dunciad Quizzes

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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

Great Mother

Saturnian Queen
2 What specific geographic region does Pope give the most attention to?

Smithfield

Newcastle

Greece

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

Caxton

Molière

Eusden

Thorold
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?

Write poorly about Dulness

Use common sense

Critique Pope

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

A fog

Dulness' bird

A fire

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

Sonnet

Epic

Mock Heroic

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

Her great fog

Water from the river Styx

Her tears

Sheet of Thule
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 throne for him to sit upon as King

A pen after the Dæmon stole his

An altar for sacrificing

A printing press for printing Dulness' works
11 What covers Dulness' face?

A silk veil

Fog

A mask

Darkness
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

Jove

Fate

Britannia
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

Rhyming Couplets

Sextets

Tercets
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?

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?

Eloquence

Emptiness

Criticism

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

Genius

Wittiness

Sloth

Pertness
21 What does Dulness anoint Bayes with?

Oil

Ink

Opium

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

Egypt

Greece

France

Germany
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?

Writers

Mysteries

Metaphors

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

Novels

Magazines

Miscellanies

Merceries

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