The Dunciad Quizzes

The Dunciad Quiz: Book 1

1 Which of these is NOT a title used to refer to Dulness?
Mighty Mother

Saturnian Queen

Great Mother

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

Smithfield

Whitehall

Greece
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?
Valiance

Fortitude

Prudence

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

Give up writing

Use common sense

Write poorly about Dulness
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

Mock Heroic

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

Her great fog

Her tears

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

Gaming

Party-Writing

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

An altar for sacrificing

A throne for him to sit upon as King

A pen after the Dæmon stole his
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?
King Colley

Cibber

King Log

Ogilby
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?
The classics of an age

A folio of all of his works

A Birth-day Ode

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

Rhyming Couplets

Sextets

Stanzas
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 care for one another

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

Bayes' Birth-Day

May Day

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

Shakespeare

Molière

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

Wisdom

Eloquence

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

Sloth

Genius

Wittiness
21 What does Dulness anoint Bayes with?
Holy Water

Opium

Oil

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

Germany

Greece

France
23 What is one thing Dulness cannot do?
Appoint the Successor to the Poet Laureate

Fly

Conquer Britain

Die
24 Dulness sees a "Mob of" what advance?
Writers

Mysteries

Similes

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

Magazines

Miscellanies

Merceries

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