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?
Whitehall

Newcastle

Greece

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

Molière

Thorold

Eusden
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?
Critique Pope

Write poorly about Dulness

Give up writing

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

A fog

A fire

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

Epic

Free Verse

Sonnet
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

Party-Writing

Gaming

the Church
10 What does Bayes make in this book?
A pen after the Dæmon stole his

A throne for him to sit upon as King

An altar for sacrificing

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

Fog

Darkness

A mask
12 Which of these is NOT a name used to refer to Bayes?
King Colley

King Log

Cibber

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

Britannia

Fate

Dulness
14 What makes up the foundation of Bayes' offering?
A Birth-day Ode

Twelve volumes of amplest size

The classics of an age

A folio of all of his works
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 have nothing to do with each other

They care for one another

They blend into one another

They fight one another
17 On what day does Dulness select Bayes to be her instrument?
May Day

Hera Day

Bayes' Birth-Day

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

Fletcher

Dennis

Shakespeare
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?
Genius

Sloth

Wittiness

Pertness
21 What does Dulness anoint Bayes with?
Opium

Holy Water

Oil

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

France

Egypt

Germany
23 What is one thing Dulness cannot do?
Fly

Conquer Britain

Appoint the Successor to the Poet Laureate

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

Metaphors

Mysteries

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

Novels

Magazines

Merceries

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