The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?
Personification

Alliteration

Pathetic Fallacy

Metaphor
2 Shelley famously admonished which first-generation Romantic poet for his conservative ideals?
William Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Blake

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

"I am the daughter of Earth and Water"

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

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

Water and Wind

Sky and Water

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

the Sunrise

Lightning

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

sleep

fall

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

rosy

sallow

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

anapestic

spondaic

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

an eagle

a bear

a dove
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 epic poems

his love for Mary Shelley

his admiration for classic poetry

his radical political beliefs
12 A cenotaph is ______
an empty tomb or monument

a sign marking a historical location

a statue

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

ghost

body

spirit
14 As the Cloud "marches" across the sky, what follows in its wake?
a rainbow

sunbeams

clear skies

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

Dreams

Nature

His fellow poets
16 Shelley was expelled from Oxford because ________
he never attended class

he cheated on his essays

he refused to retract a pamphlet he published on atheism

he refused to respect professors
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

England

Spain

France
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

Loving

Non-hierarchical

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

Mountains

Lightning

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

Women's Suffrage

Vegetarianism

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

arches and dives

grumbles and groans

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

A nun

An old woman

A maiden
25 How many stanzas does this poem contain?
nine

six

two

four

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