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

Great Mother

Mighty Mother

Saturnian Queen
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?

Thorold

Eusden

Molière

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

Fortitude

Poetic Justice

Valiance

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

Critique Pope

Write poorly about Dulness

Use common sense

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

A sheet of Thule

A fire

Dulness' bird

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

Epic

Mock Heroic

Sonnet

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

Her tears

Water from the river Styx

Her great fog

Sheet of Thule
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 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?

Fog

Darkness

A silk veil

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

King Log

King Colley

Ogilby

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

Fate

Jove

Dulness

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

A Birth-day Ode

The classics of an age

Twelve volumes of amplest size

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

Rhyming Couplets

Tercets

Sextets

Stanzas
16 Under Dulness, what does Pope say happens between Prologues and Prefaces, Tragedy and Comedy, and Epics and Farces?

They care for one another

They blend into one another

They have nothing to do with each other

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

May Day

Bayes' Birth-Day

Hera Day

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

Dennis

Fletcher

Molière

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

Wisdom

Emptiness

Eloquence

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

Genius

Wittiness

Pertness

Sloth
21 What does Dulness anoint Bayes with?

Holy Water

Ink

Opium

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

Germany

France

Egypt

Greece
23 What is one thing Dulness cannot do?

Die

Conquer Britain

Fly

Appoint the Successor to the Poet Laureate
24 Dulness sees a "Mob of" what advance?

Mysteries

Similes

Writers

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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