The Dunciad Quizzes

The Dunciad Quiz: Book 1

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

Daughter of Chaos and Eternal Night

Mighty Mother

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

Newcastle

Greece

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

Caxton

Thorold

Molière
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?
Critique Pope

Give up writing

Write poorly about Dulness

Use common sense
6 What symbol marks Bayes' coronation as King of Dulness?
A fog

A sheet of Thule

Dulness' bird

A fire
7 What is the poetic genre of The Dunciad?
Epic

Mock Heroic

Sonnet

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

Sheet of Thule

Her great fog

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

the Church

Gaming

Tutoring
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?
Darkness

Fog

A silk veil

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

King Log

King Colley

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

Jove

Dulness

Fate
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?
Sextets

Tercets

Stanzas

Rhyming Couplets
16 Under Dulness, what does Pope say happens between Prologues and Prefaces, Tragedy and Comedy, and Epics and Farces?
They fight one another

They have nothing to do with each other

They blend into 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

Bayes' Birth-Day

Hera Day

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

Shakespeare

Molière

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

Wisdom

Emptiness

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

Sloth

Genius

Pertness
21 What does Dulness anoint Bayes with?
Oil

Holy Water

Opium

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

Germany

France

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?
Mysteries

Writers

Metaphors

Similes
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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