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?

Whitehall

Greece

Newcastle

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

Thorold

Caxton

Eusden

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

Fortitude

Poetic Justice

Prudence

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

Critique Pope

Give up writing

Write poorly about Dulness

Use common sense
6 What symbol marks Bayes' coronation as King of Dulness?

A fog

A fire

Dulness' bird

A sheet of Thule
7 What is the poetic genre of The Dunciad?

Mock Heroic

Epic

Sonnet

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

Her tears

Her great fog

Water from the river Styx

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

Party-Writing

Gaming

the Church

Tutoring
10 What does Bayes make in this book?

A printing press for printing Dulness' works

A pen after the Dæmon stole his

A throne for him to sit upon as King

An altar for sacrificing
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?

Cibber

Ogilby

King Colley

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

Jove

Fate

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?

Tercets

Stanzas

Sextets

Rhyming Couplets
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?

Hera Day

May Day

The evening of Lord Mayor's Day

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

Fletcher

Shakespeare

Dennis

Molière
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?

Wittiness

Pertness

Genius

Sloth
21 What does Dulness anoint Bayes with?

Opium

Ink

Oil

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

Greece

Germany

France

Egypt
23 What is one thing Dulness cannot do?

Die

Fly

Appoint the Successor to the Poet Laureate

Conquer Britain
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?

Miscellanies

Merceries

Magazines

Novels

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