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?
John Keats

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Wordsworth

William Blake
3 Which is an example of simile?
"Sunbeam-proof, I hang like a roof"

"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"
4 The cloud is "the daughter of ______ and ______"
Water and Wind

Earth and Water

Sky and Water

Earth and Sky
5 The Cloud interacts with all but
the Moon

Lightning

the mountains

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

fall

trip

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

sallow

red

rosy
8 Shelley uses what kind of poetic meter in "The Cloud"?
spondaic

trochaic

iambic

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

a tiger

an eagle

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

Rebirth

Nature

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

his epic poems

his love for Mary Shelley

his admiration for classic poetry
12 A cenotaph is ______
an empty tomb or monument

a statue

a sign marking a historical location

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

ghost

spirit

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

a rainbow

sunbeams

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

Political philosophy

Dreams

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

he refused to retract a pamphlet he published on atheism

he refused to respect professors

he cheated on his essays
17 Shelley was a great admirer of ______, a philosopher who was also Mary Shelley's father
Thomas Hobbes

William Wordsworth

William Godwin

Thomas More
18 Shelley drowned off the coast of _______
France

Italy

Spain

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

Anaphora

Pathetic Fallacy

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

Non-hierarchical

Competitive

Distant
21 Which of the following does the cloud describe as a "pilot"?
Mountains

The stars

The sun

Lightning
22 Which of the following did Shelley NOT advocate for?
Vegetarianism

Atheism

Women's Suffrage

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

struggles and howls

grumbles and groans

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

An old woman

A baby

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

four

two

nine

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