Percy Shelley: Poems Quizzes

Percy Shelley: Poems Quiz 1

By Kory French · Edited by Adam Kissel · Last reviewed August 29, 2010

1 What are the two objects humans are compared with in "Mutability"?

The sun and the moon

The moon and the clouds

Clouds and lyres

Strings and mouthpieces
2 In "Mutability," what is an issue regarding our thoughts?

They are confused with emotions

They change

They overtake us

They rest
3 What two opposing emotions are put in parallel in "Mutability"?

Certainty and confusion

Fear and courage

Anger and calm

Joy and sorrow
4 In "Mutability," what is mankind's only guarantee?

Change

The next generation

Endurance

Memory
5 What is a hymn? Choose the best answer corresponding with Shelley's poetry.

A church song

A poem of joy

A poem of lament

A poem of praise
6 What is "intellectual beauty"?

The human mind at work

The human mind dreaming

The human mind solving political problems

Reason pushing away emotions
7 What things are compared with "intellectual beauty"?

Demons, ghosts, and superstitions

Mist, music, and moonlight

Music, moonlight, and sunlight

Sages, musicians, and poets
8 Where does intellectual beauty come from?

God

The soul

Nature

Communication
9 What are the "poisonous names" in the "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"? Choose the most likely answer.

Names from politics

Names in the poet's family

Names of British kings

Names from religion
10 What is the poet's question for Intellectual Beauty?

Dare I eat a peach?

Did I not find you sleeping?

What is virtue?

Have I not kept the vow?
11 In "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty," what does "noon" signify?

The middle of the year

The mid-stage of the poet's maturation

The highest point of knowledge

The mid-stage of the poet's life of understanding
12 What poem is "Mont Blanc" often considered an answer to?

"Ode to the West Wind" by Percy Shelley

"Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Tintern Abbey" by William Wordsworth

"Ode to the Nightingale" by John Keats
13 Where is the poet as he gets the idea for "Mont Blanc"?

Riding a horse up a low slope of the mountain

Standing on a bridge in a valley of the mountain

At a desk reading about the majesty of the mountain

Sitting at the top of the mountain
14 What does the river in "Mont Blanc" represent?

The power of nature or of understanding

The permanence of the natural cycle

Endless change

The flowing of contrary thoughts
15 What two powers are juxtaposed in "Mont Blanc"?

Weather and the mountain

God and nature

England and Italy

Nature and mind
16 What "sublime and strange" state is the poet in when looking at the mountain?

Release

A trance

Euphoria

Frustration
17 In "Mont Blanc," why does the poet wonder if he is asleep?

Spirits are speaking to him, so it is probably a dream

The mountain is so powerful and moving, it could be a dream in his overactive mind

A minute ago he was falling asleep at his desk

He is feeling very awake but should be tired, so he must be dreaming
18 What does it mean that "Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal / Large codes of fraud and woe"?

Failing to understand the mountain will lead to misery

Human things are usually the causes of fraud and woe, but the mountain will stand in our way

The natural beauty of the mountain has a way of putting superstition and bad laws to shame

The mountain is covered with fraud and woe, but this can be undone
19 In what part of "Mont Blanc" does Shelley refer to "the everlasting universe of things"?

The beginning of the third stanza

The last line

The exact middle of the poem

The first line
20 At the end of "Mont Blanc," what is the relationship between nature and the human mind?

The power of nature is meaningful because it is in the mind

If there were no minds to know nature, it would not exist

Imagining nature is a strong sign of its reality

The mind appreciates nature best by emptying itself of all cares
21 Who is Ozymandias?

Shelley

A traveler

A sculptor

King Ramses II
22 Where is Ozymandias' statue now?

In the professor's study

London

In the desert

Rome
23 What is the main problem with the statue?

It is chipped

It fails to capture the passions of the king

Its inscription has many spelling errors

Its inscription is sadly and ironically outdated
24 What is around the statue of Ozymandias?

The bones of the sculptor

Pedestals and monuments

Mummies of the king's entourage

Nothing but sand
25 In which poetic form is "Ozymandias" written?

Ballade

Hymn

Ode

Sonnet

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