The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?
Alliteration

Pathetic Fallacy

Personification

Metaphor
2 Shelley famously admonished which first-generation Romantic poet for his conservative ideals?
John Keats

William Blake

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Wordsworth
3 Which is an example of simile?
"I change, but I cannot die"

"And white the green plains asunder/And then again I dissolve it in rain"

"I am the daughter of Earth and Water"

"Sunbeam-proof, I hang like a roof"
4 The cloud is "the daughter of ______ and ______"
Water and Wind

Earth and Water

Earth and Sky

Sky and Water
5 The Cloud interacts with all but
the mountains

Lightning

the Moon

the Sunrise
6 "I ______, but I cannot die."
trip

fall

sleep

change
7 "The _______ Sunrise, with his meteor eyes"
rosy

sallow

sanguine

red
8 Shelley uses what kind of poetic meter in "The Cloud"?
iambic

anapestic

spondaic

trochaic
9 At the end of stanza three, the Cloud compares itself to what kind of animal?
a bear

an eagle

a dove

a tiger
10 Which of the following is NOT a theme of the poem?
Power

Death

Nature

Rebirth
11 Of all the Romantic poets, Shelley was most known for _______
his radical political beliefs

his admiration for classic poetry

his epic poems

his love for Mary Shelley
12 A cenotaph is ______
an empty tomb or monument

a statue

a sarcophagus

a sign marking a historical location
13 "Like a child from the womb, like a _______ from the tomb"
spirit

skeleton

ghost

body
14 As the Cloud "marches" across the sky, what follows in its wake?
a rainbow

clear skies

sunbeams

all of the above
15 Shelley frequently turned to which source for poetic inspiration and symbolism?
Political philosophy

Nature

His fellow poets

Dreams
16 Shelley was expelled from Oxford because ________
he cheated on his essays

he refused to retract a pamphlet he published on atheism

he refused to respect professors

he never attended class
17 Shelley was a great admirer of ______, a philosopher who was also Mary Shelley's father
Thomas More

Thomas Hobbes

William Godwin

William Wordsworth
18 Shelley drowned off the coast of _______
Italy

France

Spain

England
19 Shelley uses _____ in stanza 1, or the repetition of a single word or phrase at the beginning of several lines
Pathetic Fallacy

Anaphora

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia
20 Which best characterizes the relationships described in "The Cloud"?
Loving

Competitive

Distant

Non-hierarchical
21 Which of the following does the cloud describe as a "pilot"?
The stars

Lightning

Mountains

The sun
22 Which of the following did Shelley NOT advocate for?
Women's Suffrage

Republicanism

Vegetarianism

Atheism
23 "In a cavern under is fettered the thunder, It __ and __ at fits;"
arches and dives

grumbles and groans

struggles and howls

frolics and hops
24 The moon is personified as which of the following?
A nun

A maiden

An old woman

A baby
25 How many stanzas does this poem contain?
six

four

nine

two

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