The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

By Jacqueline Lucente · Edited by Eleanor Stern · Last reviewed July 07, 2021

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?

Metaphor

Alliteration

Pathetic Fallacy

Personification
2 Shelley famously admonished which first-generation Romantic poet for his conservative ideals?

John Keats

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Blake

William Wordsworth
3 Which is an example of simile?

"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"

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

Sky and Water

Earth and Water

Earth and Sky

Water and Wind
5 The Cloud interacts with all but

Lightning

the Moon

the Sunrise

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

sleep

fall

trip

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

rosy

sanguine

sallow

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

anapestic

spondaic

trochaic

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

a tiger

a bear

an eagle

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

Nature

Death

Power

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

his love for Mary Shelley

his epic poems

his admiration for classic poetry

his radical political beliefs
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"

skeleton

body

spirit

ghost
14 As the Cloud "marches" across the sky, what follows in its wake?

clear skies

sunbeams

a rainbow

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 cheated on his essays

he refused to retract a pamphlet he published on atheism

he never attended class

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

Thomas More

William Godwin

William Wordsworth

Thomas Hobbes
18 Shelley drowned off the coast of _______

France

Italy

England

Spain
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"?

Distant

Competitive

Loving

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?

Atheism

Vegetarianism

Republicanism

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

frolics and hops

struggles and howls

grumbles and groans

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

A nun

An old woman

A maiden

A baby
25 How many stanzas does this poem contain?

two

four

nine

six

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