The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?

Pathetic Fallacy

Metaphor

Alliteration

Personification
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"

"Sunbeam-proof, I hang like a roof"

"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 ______"

Earth and Water

Sky and Water

Earth and Sky

Water and Wind
5 The Cloud interacts with all but

the mountains

Lightning

the Moon

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

sleep

change

fall

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

sallow

red

rosy

sanguine
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 bear

a dove

an eagle

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

Nature

Power

Rebirth

Death
11 Of all the Romantic poets, Shelley was most known for _______

his epic poems

his love for Mary Shelley

his radical political beliefs

his admiration for classic poetry
12 A cenotaph is ______

a statue

an empty tomb or monument

a sign marking a historical location

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

spirit

body

ghost

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?

Dreams

His fellow poets

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 _______

Italy

Spain

France

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

Pathetic Fallacy

Onomatopoeia

Anaphora

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

Competitive

Loving

Distant

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

Mountains

The sun

Lightning

The stars
22 Which of the following did Shelley NOT advocate for?

Women's Suffrage

Atheism

Republicanism

Vegetarianism
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 maiden

A baby

An old woman

A nun
25 How many stanzas does this poem contain?

four

two

six

nine

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