The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?
Alliteration

Personification

Metaphor

Pathetic Fallacy
2 Shelley famously admonished which first-generation Romantic poet for his conservative ideals?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Wordsworth

John Keats

William Blake
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 ______"
Earth and Sky

Water and Wind

Earth and Water

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

the mountains

Lightning

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

change

fall

sleep
7 "The _______ Sunrise, with his meteor eyes"
rosy

sanguine

sallow

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?
a dove

an eagle

a bear

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

Rebirth

Nature

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

his epic poems

his admiration for classic poetry

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

a sign marking a historical location

a sarcophagus

an empty tomb or monument
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

sunbeams

a rainbow

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

His fellow poets

Nature

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

he refused to retract a pamphlet he published on atheism

he cheated on his essays

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

William Godwin

Thomas More

William Wordsworth
18 Shelley drowned off the coast of _______
England

France

Spain

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

Alliteration

Pathetic Fallacy

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

Non-hierarchical

Loving

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

Mountains

The sun

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

Vegetarianism

Atheism

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

grumbles and groans

frolics and hops

struggles and howls
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?
nine

six

two

four

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