The Dunciad Quizzes

The Dunciad Quiz: Book 1

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

Daughter of Chaos and Eternal Night

Mighty Mother

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

Greece

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?
Valiance

Fortitude

Prudence

Poetic Justice
5 What does Bayes claim a Dæmon made him do?
Give up writing

Critique Pope

Write poorly about Dulness

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

A fog

Dulness' bird

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

Free Verse

Epic

Sonnet
8 What does Dulness use to put out Bayes' fire?
Water from the river Styx

Her tears

Her great fog

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

An altar for sacrificing

A pen after the Dæmon stole his
11 What covers Dulness' face?
A silk veil

A mask

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?
Jove

Fate

Dulness

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

A folio of all of his works

The classics of an age

Twelve volumes of amplest size
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 care for 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?
The evening of Lord Mayor's Day

May Day

Bayes' Birth-Day

Hera Day
18 Who does Bayes NOT claim to have plaigarized from?
Molière

Shakespeare

Fletcher

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

Emptiness

Criticism

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

Sloth

Pertness

Wittiness
21 What does Dulness anoint Bayes with?
Opium

Ink

Oil

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

Greece

Egypt

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

Die

Conquer Britain

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

Writers

Metaphors

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

Magazines

Miscellanies

Novels

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