The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?

Alliteration

Metaphor

Pathetic Fallacy

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

John Keats

William Blake

William Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3 Which is an example of simile?

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

"Sunbeam-proof, I hang like a roof"

"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 Sky

Water and Wind

Earth and Water
5 The Cloud interacts with all but

the Sunrise

the Moon

Lightning

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

fall

sleep

trip

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

sallow

sanguine

rosy

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

trochaic

iambic

anapestic

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

an eagle

a bear

a tiger

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

Power

Death

Rebirth

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

his radical political beliefs

his love for Mary Shelley

his admiration for classic poetry

his epic poems
12 A cenotaph is ______

a statue

an empty tomb or monument

a sarcophagus

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?

clear skies

a rainbow

sunbeams

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

Political philosophy

Dreams

His fellow poets

Nature
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

William Godwin

Thomas Hobbes

Thomas More

William Wordsworth
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

Onomatopoeia

Pathetic Fallacy

Alliteration

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

Non-hierarchical

Distant

Loving

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

Lightning

The sun

Mountains

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

Vegetarianism

Atheism

Republicanism

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

arches and dives

struggles and howls

frolics and hops

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

An old woman

A baby

A nun

A maiden
25 How many stanzas does this poem contain?

two

nine

four

six

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