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

Mighty Mother

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

Smithfield

Greece

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

Caxton

Thorold

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

Poetic Justice

Valiance

Prudence
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

A fire

Dulness' bird

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

Mock Heroic

Epic

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

Her tears

Water from the river Styx

Her great fog
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?
An altar for sacrificing

A throne for him to sit upon as King

A pen after the Dæmon stole his

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

Fog

A mask

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

Cibber

King Log

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

Dulness

Jove

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

A Birth-day Ode

Twelve volumes of amplest size

The classics of an age
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 fight one another

They care for one another

They have nothing to do with each other

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

Hera Day

May Day

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

Dennis

Shakespeare

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

Eloquence

Wisdom

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

Pertness

Wittiness

Genius
21 What does Dulness anoint Bayes with?
Holy Water

Oil

Opium

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

Germany

Egypt

France
23 What is one thing Dulness cannot do?
Conquer Britain

Appoint the Successor to the Poet Laureate

Die

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

Similes

Writers

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

Merceries

Novels

Miscellanies

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