The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?

Pathetic Fallacy

Alliteration

Metaphor

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

William Blake

William Wordsworth

John Keats

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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 ______"

Sky and Water

Earth and Water

Earth and Sky

Water and Wind
5 The Cloud interacts with all but

the Sunrise

the Moon

Lightning

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

trip

sleep

change

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

rosy

sanguine

sallow

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

anapestic

spondaic

trochaic

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

a tiger

a dove

an eagle

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

Nature

Power

Death

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

his admiration for classic poetry

his love for Mary Shelley

his epic poems

his radical political beliefs
12 A cenotaph is ______

a sarcophagus

an empty tomb or monument

a statue

a sign marking a historical location
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

His fellow poets

Nature

Dreams
16 Shelley was expelled from Oxford because ________

he refused to retract a pamphlet he published on atheism

he never attended class

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 More

Thomas Hobbes

William Wordsworth

William Godwin
18 Shelley drowned off the coast of _______

Spain

England

France

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

Alliteration

Anaphora

Pathetic Fallacy

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

Non-hierarchical

Loving

Distant

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

The stars

Lightning

Mountains

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

Atheism

Republicanism

Women's Suffrage

Vegetarianism
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?

A baby

A nun

An old woman

A maiden
25 How many stanzas does this poem contain?

six

nine

four

two

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