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?
Whitehall

Smithfield

Greece

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

Thorold

Molière

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

Valiance

Prudence

Poetic Justice
5 What does Bayes claim a Dæmon made him do?
Use common sense

Critique Pope

Give up writing

Write poorly about Dulness
6 What symbol marks Bayes' coronation as King of Dulness?
A fire

Dulness' bird

A sheet of Thule

A fog
7 What is the poetic genre of The Dunciad?
Free Verse

Sonnet

Epic

Mock Heroic
8 What does Dulness use to put out Bayes' fire?
Water from the river Styx

Her tears

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?
Gaming

Party-Writing

Tutoring

the Church
10 What does Bayes make in this book?
A throne for him to sit upon as King

An altar for sacrificing

A printing press for printing Dulness' works

A pen after the Dæmon stole his
11 What covers Dulness' face?
A silk veil

Fog

Darkness

A mask
12 Which of these is NOT a name used to refer to Bayes?
King Log

Ogilby

Cibber

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

Jove

Fate

Dulness
14 What makes up the foundation of Bayes' offering?
A folio of all of his works

Twelve volumes of amplest size

A Birth-day Ode

The classics of an age
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 blend into one another

They have nothing to do with each other

They fight one another

They care for one another
17 On what day does Dulness select Bayes to be her instrument?
The evening of Lord Mayor's Day

Hera Day

Bayes' Birth-Day

May 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?
Eloquence

Wisdom

Emptiness

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

Wittiness

Sloth

Genius
21 What does Dulness anoint Bayes with?
Oil

Opium

Holy Water

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

Egypt

Greece

Germany
23 What is one thing Dulness cannot do?
Die

Appoint the Successor to the Poet Laureate

Conquer Britain

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

Metaphors

Similes

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

Magazines

Miscellanies

Novels

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