The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?
Personification

Metaphor

Pathetic Fallacy

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

John Keats

William Blake

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3 Which is an example of simile?
"I change, but I cannot die"

"I am the daughter of Earth and Water"

"Sunbeam-proof, I hang like a roof"

"And white the green plains asunder/And then again I dissolve it in rain"
4 The cloud is "the daughter of ______ and ______"
Water and Wind

Sky and Water

Earth and Water

Earth and Sky
5 The Cloud interacts with all but
Lightning

the mountains

the Sunrise

the Moon
6 "I ______, but I cannot die."
sleep

trip

change

fall
7 "The _______ Sunrise, with his meteor eyes"
sanguine

red

rosy

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

trochaic

iambic

spondaic
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?
Death

Nature

Rebirth

Power
11 Of all the Romantic poets, Shelley was most known for _______
his epic poems

his admiration for classic poetry

his radical political beliefs

his love for Mary Shelley
12 A cenotaph is ______
a sarcophagus

an empty tomb or monument

a statue

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

body

spirit

skeleton
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?
His fellow poets

Dreams

Nature

Political philosophy
16 Shelley was expelled from Oxford because ________
he refused to respect professors

he cheated on his essays

he refused to retract a pamphlet he published on atheism

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

William Wordsworth

Thomas More

William Godwin
18 Shelley drowned off the coast of _______
Spain

France

England

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

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

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

Loving

Competitive

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

The sun

The stars

Mountains
22 Which of the following did Shelley NOT advocate for?
Atheism

Vegetarianism

Women's Suffrage

Republicanism
23 "In a cavern under is fettered the thunder, It __ and __ at fits;"
frolics and hops

struggles and howls

arches and dives

grumbles and groans
24 The moon is personified as which of the following?
A baby

An old woman

A nun

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

four

nine

two

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