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?
Greece

Newcastle

Whitehall

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

Molière

Eusden

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

Fortitude

Valiance

Poetic Justice
5 What does Bayes claim a Dæmon made him do?
Use common sense

Critique Pope

Give up writing

Write poorly about Dulness
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

Sonnet

Mock Heroic

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

Sheet of Thule

Water from the river Styx

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

Tutoring

Gaming

Party-Writing
10 What does Bayes make in this book?
An altar for sacrificing

A pen after the Dæmon stole his

A throne for him to sit upon as King

A printing press for printing Dulness' works
11 What covers Dulness' face?
A mask

A silk veil

Fog

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

Ogilby

King Colley

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

Dulness

Britannia

Fate
14 What makes up the foundation of Bayes' offering?
A folio of all of his works

Twelve volumes of amplest size

A Birth-day Ode

The classics of an age
15 What basic poetic structure is The Dunciad composed of?
Rhyming Couplets

Sextets

Tercets

Stanzas
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 fight one another

They have nothing to do with each other

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

May Day

Hera Day

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

Fletcher

Dennis

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

Criticism

Wisdom

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

Sloth

Pertness

Genius
21 What does Dulness anoint Bayes with?
Holy Water

Oil

Ink

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

Egypt

Greece

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

Die

Conquer Britain

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

Similes

Mysteries

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

Miscellanies

Magazines

Novels

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