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

Mighty Mother

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

Whitehall

Greece

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

Thorold

Eusden

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

Valiance

Poetic Justice

Fortitude
5 What does Bayes claim a Dæmon made him do?
Use common sense

Critique Pope

Give up writing

Write poorly about Dulness
6 What symbol marks Bayes' coronation as King of Dulness?
Dulness' bird

A sheet of Thule

A fog

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

Mock Heroic

Epic

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?
the Church

Gaming

Party-Writing

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

An altar for sacrificing

A pen after the Dæmon stole his

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

A mask

A silk veil

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

King Colley

Ogilby

Cibber
13 Who does NOT call those Pope is critiquing to their work?
Dulness

Fate

Jove

Britannia
14 What makes up the foundation of Bayes' offering?
Twelve volumes of amplest size

A Birth-day Ode

A folio of all of his works

The classics of an age
15 What basic poetic structure is The Dunciad composed of?
Stanzas

Tercets

Sextets

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

They blend into 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

Hera Day

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

Fletcher

Molière

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

Eloquence

Criticism

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

Pertness

Wittiness

Sloth
21 What does Dulness anoint Bayes with?
Holy Water

Oil

Ink

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

Germany

Egypt

Greece
23 What is one thing Dulness cannot do?
Fly

Appoint the Successor to the Poet Laureate

Conquer Britain

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

Writers

Similes

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

Merceries

Magazines

Miscellanies

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