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

Mighty Mother

Saturnian Queen

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

Whitehall

Smithfield

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

Thorold

Molière

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

Prudence

Valiance

Poetic Justice
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 fire

A fog

A sheet of Thule

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

Mock Heroic

Free Verse

Epic
8 What does Dulness use to put out Bayes' fire?
Her tears

Sheet of Thule

Water from the river Styx

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

Gaming

the Church

Party-Writing
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?
A silk veil

A mask

Darkness

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

King Log

Cibber

King Colley
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?
A folio of all of his works

A Birth-day Ode

The classics of an age

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

Sextets

Rhyming Couplets

Tercets
16 Under Dulness, what does Pope say happens between Prologues and Prefaces, Tragedy and Comedy, and Epics and Farces?
They fight one another

They care for one another

They blend into one another

They have nothing to do with each other
17 On what day does Dulness select Bayes to be her instrument?
May Day

Hera Day

The evening of Lord Mayor's Day

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

Dennis

Fletcher

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

Emptiness

Wisdom

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

Sloth

Wittiness

Genius
21 What does Dulness anoint Bayes with?
Opium

Holy Water

Oil

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

Greece

Egypt

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

Conquer Britain

Fly

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

Writers

Mysteries

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

Merceries

Novels

Miscellanies

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