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?
Newcastle

Whitehall

Smithfield

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

Molière

Thorold

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

Valiance

Fortitude

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

Critique Pope

Give up writing

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

A sheet of Thule

A fire

A fog
7 What is the poetic genre of The Dunciad?
Mock Heroic

Free Verse

Sonnet

Epic
8 What does Dulness use to put out Bayes' fire?
Her tears

Her great fog

Water from the river Styx

Sheet of Thule
9 Which of these is NOT one of the fields Bayes considers turning to should he give up writing?
Gaming

the Church

Party-Writing

Tutoring
10 What does Bayes make in this book?
An altar for sacrificing

A printing press for printing Dulness' works

A throne for him to sit upon as King

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

A mask

Darkness

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

Ogilby

Cibber

King Log
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?
Twelve volumes of amplest size

A folio of all of his works

The classics of an age

A Birth-day Ode
15 What basic poetic structure is The Dunciad composed of?
Tercets

Sextets

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 fight one another

They care for one another

They have nothing to do with each other
17 On what day does Dulness select Bayes to be her instrument?
Hera Day

May Day

The evening of Lord Mayor's Day

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

Molière

Shakespeare

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

Criticism

Wisdom

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

Wittiness

Sloth

Pertness
21 What does Dulness anoint Bayes with?
Opium

Ink

Holy Water

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

Egypt

France

Greece
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?
Metaphors

Mysteries

Writers

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

Miscellanies

Novels

Magazines

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