The Dunciad Quizzes

The Dunciad Quiz: Book 1

1 Which of these is NOT a title used to refer to Dulness?
Saturnian Queen

Great Mother

Daughter of Chaos and Eternal Night

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

Newcastle

Greece

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

Thorold

Caxton

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

Poetic Justice

Valiance

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

Use common sense

Write poorly about Dulness

Critique Pope
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?
Sonnet

Epic

Mock Heroic

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

Water from the river Styx

Her tears

Her great fog
9 Which of these is NOT one of the fields Bayes considers turning to should he give up writing?
Tutoring

Gaming

the Church

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

A printing press for printing Dulness' works

An altar for sacrificing

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

Darkness

A silk veil

Fog
12 Which of these is NOT a name used to refer to Bayes?
Cibber

King Colley

King Log

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?
The classics of an age

A folio of all of his works

Twelve volumes of amplest size

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

Sextets

Tercets

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?
May Day

The evening of Lord Mayor's Day

Bayes' Birth-Day

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

Molière

Fletcher

Shakespeare
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?
Pertness

Wittiness

Sloth

Genius
21 What does Dulness anoint Bayes with?
Oil

Ink

Opium

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

Germany

Greece

France
23 What is one thing Dulness cannot do?
Fly

Appoint the Successor to the Poet Laureate

Die

Conquer Britain
24 Dulness sees a "Mob of" what advance?
Metaphors

Similes

Writers

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

Magazines

Merceries

Novels

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