The Dunciad Quizzes

The Dunciad Quiz: Book 1

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

Saturnian Queen

Mighty Mother

Daughter of Chaos and Eternal Night
2 What specific geographic region does Pope give the most attention to?
Greece

Newcastle

Smithfield

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

Molière

Eusden

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

Prudence

Fortitude

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

Write poorly about Dulness

Use common sense

Critique Pope
6 What symbol marks Bayes' coronation as King of Dulness?
A fog

Dulness' bird

A fire

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

Sonnet

Free Verse

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

Sheet of Thule

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

the Church

Gaming

Tutoring
10 What does Bayes make in this book?
A throne for him to sit upon as King

A pen after the Dæmon stole his

A printing press for printing Dulness' works

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?
Ogilby

King Colley

Cibber

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

Dulness

Britannia

Jove
14 What makes up the foundation of Bayes' offering?
A folio of all of his works

Twelve volumes of amplest size

The classics of an age

A Birth-day Ode
15 What basic poetic structure is The Dunciad composed of?
Tercets

Rhyming Couplets

Sextets

Stanzas
16 Under Dulness, what does Pope say happens between Prologues and Prefaces, Tragedy and Comedy, and Epics and Farces?
They fight one another

They have nothing to do with each other

They care for one another

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

May Day

Bayes' Birth-Day

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

Dennis

Shakespeare

Molière
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?
Wittiness

Genius

Pertness

Sloth
21 What does Dulness anoint Bayes with?
Ink

Holy Water

Oil

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

Egypt

France

Greece
23 What is one thing Dulness cannot do?
Die

Appoint the Successor to the Poet Laureate

Fly

Conquer Britain
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?
Novels

Magazines

Merceries

Miscellanies

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