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

Saturnian Queen

Mighty Mother

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

Smithfield

Greece

Newcastle

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

Molière

Caxton

Thorold

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?

Write poorly about Dulness

Give up writing

Critique Pope

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

Dulness' bird

A fog

A sheet of Thule

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

Sonnet

Mock Heroic

Epic

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

Sheet of Thule

Water from the river Styx

Her great fog

Her tears
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 throne for him to sit upon as King

A pen after the Dæmon stole his

An altar for sacrificing

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?

Ogilby

Cibber

King Log

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

Fate

Jove

Britannia

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

The classics of an age

Twelve volumes of amplest size

A Birth-day Ode

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

Sextets

Tercets

Stanzas

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

They have nothing to do with each other

They fight one another

They care for one another

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

The evening of Lord Mayor's Day

Hera Day

May Day

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

Molière

Dennis

Shakespeare

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

Wisdom

Criticism

Eloquence

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

Sloth

Pertness

Genius

Wittiness
21 What does Dulness anoint Bayes with?

Opium

Holy Water

Ink

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

Greece

Egypt

France

Germany
23 What is one thing Dulness cannot do?

Fly

Conquer Britain

Die

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

Metaphors

Mysteries

Similes

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

Miscellanies

Novels

Merceries

Magazines

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