The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?
Pathetic Fallacy

Metaphor

Personification

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

John Keats

William Blake

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3 Which is an example of simile?
"Sunbeam-proof, I hang like a roof"

"I change, but I cannot die"

"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 ______"
Sky and Water

Earth and Water

Water and Wind

Earth and Sky
5 The Cloud interacts with all but
Lightning

the Sunrise

the mountains

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

sleep

trip

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

sanguine

red

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

anapestic

trochaic

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

a tiger

an eagle

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

Power

Rebirth

Death
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 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"
body

ghost

skeleton

spirit
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?
His fellow poets

Dreams

Nature

Political philosophy
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
Thomas Hobbes

Thomas More

William Godwin

William Wordsworth
18 Shelley drowned off the coast of _______
England

France

Italy

Spain
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"?
Non-hierarchical

Loving

Distant

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

The sun

Mountains

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

Women's Suffrage

Republicanism

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

grumbles and groans

frolics and hops

arches and dives
24 The moon is personified as which of the following?
A baby

An old woman

A maiden

A nun
25 How many stanzas does this poem contain?
four

nine

six

two

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