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?
Greece

Whitehall

Newcastle

Smithfield
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?
Poetic Justice

Fortitude

Valiance

Prudence
5 What does Bayes claim a Dæmon made him do?
Critique Pope

Use common sense

Write poorly about Dulness

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

Dulness' bird

A sheet of Thule

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

Epic

Sonnet

Mock Heroic
8 What does Dulness use to put out Bayes' fire?
Her great fog

Water from the river Styx

Sheet of Thule

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

Tutoring

Gaming

the Church
10 What does Bayes make in this book?
A printing press for printing Dulness' works

A throne for him to sit upon as King

An altar for sacrificing

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

A mask

A silk veil

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

Ogilby

King Log

Cibber
13 Who does NOT call those Pope is critiquing to their work?
Jove

Fate

Britannia

Dulness
14 What makes up the foundation of Bayes' offering?
Twelve volumes of amplest size

The classics of an age

A folio of all of his works

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

Tercets

Sextets

Rhyming Couplets
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?
Bayes' Birth-Day

May Day

The evening of Lord Mayor's Day

Hera Day
18 Who does Bayes NOT claim to have plaigarized from?
Shakespeare

Dennis

Fletcher

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

Eloquence

Emptiness

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

Sloth

Genius

Wittiness
21 What does Dulness anoint Bayes with?
Oil

Holy Water

Ink

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

France

Germany

Greece
23 What is one thing Dulness cannot do?
Fly

Appoint the Successor to the Poet Laureate

Conquer Britain

Die
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?
Magazines

Merceries

Novels

Miscellanies

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