The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?
Pathetic Fallacy

Metaphor

Personification

Alliteration
2 Shelley famously admonished which first-generation Romantic poet for his conservative ideals?
William Blake

John Keats

William Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3 Which is an example of simile?
"I am the daughter of Earth and Water"

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

"Sunbeam-proof, I hang like a roof"

"I change, but I cannot die"
4 The cloud is "the daughter of ______ and ______"
Earth and Sky

Water and Wind

Sky and Water

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

the Moon

Lightning

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

fall

sleep

trip
7 "The _______ Sunrise, with his meteor eyes"
red

rosy

sanguine

sallow
8 Shelley uses what kind of poetic meter in "The Cloud"?
trochaic

iambic

spondaic

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

an eagle

a tiger

a bear
10 Which of the following is NOT a theme of the poem?
Death

Nature

Rebirth

Power
11 Of all the Romantic poets, Shelley was most known for _______
his love for Mary Shelley

his admiration for classic poetry

his epic poems

his radical political beliefs
12 A cenotaph is ______
an empty tomb or monument

a sarcophagus

a sign marking a historical location

a statue
13 "Like a child from the womb, like a _______ from the tomb"
skeleton

body

ghost

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

sunbeams

clear skies

all of the above
15 Shelley frequently turned to which source for poetic inspiration and symbolism?
His fellow poets

Nature

Dreams

Political philosophy
16 Shelley was expelled from Oxford because ________
he never attended class

he refused to retract a pamphlet he published on atheism

he cheated on his essays

he refused to respect professors
17 Shelley was a great admirer of ______, a philosopher who was also Mary Shelley's father
William Godwin

William Wordsworth

Thomas Hobbes

Thomas More
18 Shelley drowned off the coast of _______
England

France

Italy

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

Onomatopoeia

Pathetic Fallacy

Alliteration
20 Which best characterizes the relationships described in "The Cloud"?
Distant

Non-hierarchical

Competitive

Loving
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?
Republicanism

Atheism

Vegetarianism

Women's Suffrage
23 "In a cavern under is fettered the thunder, It __ and __ at fits;"
frolics and hops

grumbles and groans

struggles and howls

arches and dives
24 The moon is personified as which of the following?
An old woman

A nun

A baby

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

two

four

nine

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