The Dunciad Quizzes

The Dunciad Quiz: Book 1

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

Great Mother

Daughter of Chaos and Eternal Night

Saturnian Queen

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

Newcastle

Whitehall

Greece

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

Molière

Eusden

Thorold

Caxton
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?

Give up writing

Critique Pope

Write poorly about Dulness

Use common sense
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?

Sonnet

Epic

Free Verse

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

Sheet of Thule

Water from the river Styx

Her great fog

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

the Church

Party-Writing

Gaming

Tutoring
10 What does Bayes make in this book?

An altar for sacrificing

A throne for him to sit upon as King

A printing press for printing Dulness' works

A pen after the Dæmon stole his
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?

Ogilby

Cibber

King Log

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

Dulness

Jove

Fate

Britannia
14 What makes up the foundation of Bayes' offering?

Twelve volumes of amplest size

The classics of an age

A Birth-day Ode

A folio of all of his works
15 What basic poetic structure is The Dunciad composed of?

Tercets

Sextets

Stanzas

Rhyming Couplets
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 fight one another

They blend into one another

They care for one another
17 On what day does Dulness select Bayes to be her instrument?

May Day

Hera Day

Bayes' Birth-Day

The evening of Lord Mayor's Day
18 Who does Bayes NOT claim to have plaigarized from?

Dennis

Molière

Fletcher

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

Emptiness

Wisdom

Eloquence

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

Wittiness

Genius

Pertness

Sloth
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

Greece

France

Germany
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

Miscellanies

Novels

Merceries

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