The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?
Personification

Metaphor

Alliteration

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

William Blake

John Keats

William Wordsworth
3 Which is an example of simile?
"I change, but I cannot die"

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

Sky and Water

Water and Wind

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

the Sunrise

Lightning

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

trip

sleep

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

rosy

sanguine

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

anapestic

iambic

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?
Death

Power

Rebirth

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

his radical political beliefs

his admiration for classic poetry

his love for Mary Shelley
12 A cenotaph is ______
a sign marking a historical location

an empty tomb or monument

a sarcophagus

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

body

ghost

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

His fellow poets

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 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 Hobbes

William Wordsworth

Thomas More

William Godwin
18 Shelley drowned off the coast of _______
Spain

France

Italy

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

Pathetic Fallacy

Alliteration

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

Loving

Competitive

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

The sun

Mountains

Lightning
22 Which of the following did Shelley NOT advocate for?
Women's Suffrage

Atheism

Republicanism

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

arches and dives

frolics and hops

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

A nun

A maiden

An old woman
25 How many stanzas does this poem contain?
four

nine

two

six

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