The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?
Pathetic Fallacy

Personification

Metaphor

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?
"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

Sky and Water

Water and Wind

Earth and Water
5 The Cloud interacts with all but
Lightning

the Moon

the mountains

the Sunrise
6 "I ______, but I cannot die."
sleep

trip

fall

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

sallow

sanguine

rosy
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

an eagle

a bear

a dove
10 Which of the following is NOT a theme of the poem?
Rebirth

Death

Power

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 sarcophagus

an empty tomb or monument

a sign marking a historical location

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

skeleton

spirit

body
14 As the Cloud "marches" across the sky, what follows in its wake?
sunbeams

a rainbow

clear skies

all of the above
15 Shelley frequently turned to which source for poetic inspiration and symbolism?
His fellow poets

Dreams

Political philosophy

Nature
16 Shelley was expelled from Oxford because ________
he never attended class

he refused to retract a pamphlet he published on atheism

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 Godwin

William Wordsworth
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
Anaphora

Onomatopoeia

Pathetic Fallacy

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

Distant

Non-hierarchical

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

Lightning

The sun

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

Vegetarianism

Atheism

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

arches and dives

frolics and hops

struggles and howls
24 The moon is personified as which of the following?
A maiden

A nun

A baby

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

two

four

nine

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