The Dunciad Quizzes

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The Dunciad Quiz: Book 1

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

Great Mother

Mighty Mother

Daughter of Chaos and Eternal Night
2 What specific geographic region does Pope give the most attention to?
Greece

Smithfield

Newcastle

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

Thorold

Eusden

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

Prudence

Poetic Justice

Valiance
5 What does Bayes claim a Dæmon made him do?
Give up writing

Use common sense

Write poorly about Dulness

Critique Pope
6 What symbol marks Bayes' coronation as King of Dulness?
A fog

A sheet of Thule

A fire

Dulness' bird
7 What is the poetic genre of The Dunciad?
Mock Heroic

Sonnet

Epic

Free Verse
8 What does Dulness use to put out Bayes' fire?
Her great fog

Water from the river Styx

Her tears

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

Gaming

Party-Writing

the Church
10 What does Bayes make in this book?
A pen after the Dæmon stole his

An altar for sacrificing

A printing press for printing Dulness' works

A throne for him to sit upon as King
11 What covers Dulness' face?
A silk veil

Darkness

Fog

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

King Colley

Cibber

King Log
13 Who does NOT call those Pope is critiquing to their work?
Dulness

Fate

Jove

Britannia
14 What makes up the foundation of Bayes' offering?
The classics of an age

A Birth-day Ode

A folio of all of his works

Twelve volumes of amplest size
15 What basic poetic structure is The Dunciad composed of?
Sextets

Stanzas

Rhyming Couplets

Tercets
16 Under Dulness, what does Pope say happens between Prologues and Prefaces, Tragedy and Comedy, and Epics and Farces?
They have nothing to do with each other

They blend into one another

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

May Day

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

Shakespeare

Fletcher

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

Emptiness

Wisdom

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

Genius

Sloth

Wittiness
21 What does Dulness anoint Bayes with?
Oil

Ink

Opium

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

Greece

Egypt

France
23 What is one thing Dulness cannot do?
Die

Fly

Conquer Britain

Appoint the Successor to the Poet Laureate
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?
Miscellanies

Magazines

Novels

Merceries

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