The Dunciad Quizzes

The Dunciad Quiz: Book 1

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

Daughter of Chaos and Eternal Night

Great Mother

Saturnian Queen
2 What specific geographic region does Pope give the most attention to?
Greece

Smithfield

Newcastle

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

Eusden

Molière

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

Valiance

Prudence

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 fire

A sheet of Thule

A fog

Dulness' bird
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 great fog

Water from the river Styx

Her tears

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

Tutoring

the Church

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

A throne for him to sit upon as King

A pen after the Dæmon stole his

An altar for sacrificing
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?
King Colley

Ogilby

King Log

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

Dulness

Fate

Jove
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?
Stanzas

Rhyming Couplets

Sextets

Tercets
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 fight one another

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

Bayes' Birth-Day

The evening of Lord Mayor's Day

May Day
18 Who does Bayes NOT claim to have plaigarized from?
Fletcher

Molière

Dennis

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

Wisdom

Emptiness

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

Pertness

Sloth

Genius
21 What does Dulness anoint Bayes with?
Ink

Opium

Holy Water

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

Greece

Egypt

France
23 What is one thing Dulness cannot do?
Conquer Britain

Fly

Appoint the Successor to the Poet Laureate

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?
Magazines

Merceries

Miscellanies

Novels

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