The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?

Personification

Metaphor

Pathetic Fallacy

Alliteration
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?

"I am the daughter of Earth and Water"

"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"
4 The cloud is "the daughter of ______ and ______"

Earth and Water

Earth and Sky

Water and Wind

Sky and Water
5 The Cloud interacts with all but

the Sunrise

the Moon

Lightning

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

trip

change

sleep

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

rosy

sallow

red

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

anapestic

iambic

spondaic

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

a dove

a bear

an eagle

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

Rebirth

Power

Death

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

his love for Mary Shelley

his admiration for classic poetry

his radical political beliefs

his epic poems
12 A cenotaph is ______

a statue

a sarcophagus

a sign marking a historical location

an empty tomb or monument
13 "Like a child from the womb, like a _______ from the tomb"

body

ghost

spirit

skeleton
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?

His fellow poets

Political philosophy

Nature

Dreams
16 Shelley was expelled from Oxford because ________

he refused to retract a pamphlet he published on atheism

he cheated on his essays

he refused to respect professors

he never attended class
17 Shelley was a great admirer of ______, a philosopher who was also Mary Shelley's father

William Godwin

Thomas More

William Wordsworth

Thomas Hobbes
18 Shelley drowned off the coast of _______

Spain

Italy

France

England
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

Competitive

Loving

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

Mountains

The stars

Lightning

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

Republicanism

Atheism

Vegetarianism

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

arches and dives

grumbles and groans

struggles and howls

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

A baby

A maiden

An old woman

A nun
25 How many stanzas does this poem contain?

four

nine

six

two

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