The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?
Metaphor

Personification

Alliteration

Pathetic Fallacy
2 Shelley famously admonished which first-generation Romantic poet for his conservative ideals?
John Keats

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Blake

William Wordsworth
3 Which is an example of simile?
"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"

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

Sky and Water

Earth and Sky

Water and Wind
5 The Cloud interacts with all but
Lightning

the Moon

the Sunrise

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

change

sleep

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

rosy

sanguine

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

trochaic

anapestic

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

a tiger

an eagle

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

Rebirth

Power

Death
11 Of all the Romantic poets, Shelley was most known for _______
his radical political beliefs

his admiration for classic poetry

his epic poems

his love for Mary Shelley
12 A cenotaph is ______
a statue

a sign marking a historical location

a sarcophagus

an empty tomb or monument
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

clear skies

sunbeams

all of the above
15 Shelley frequently turned to which source for poetic inspiration and symbolism?
Political philosophy

His fellow poets

Dreams

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

he refused to retract a pamphlet he published on atheism

he refused to respect professors

he cheated on his essays
17 Shelley was a great admirer of ______, a philosopher who was also Mary Shelley's father
Thomas Hobbes

Thomas More

William Wordsworth

William Godwin
18 Shelley drowned off the coast of _______
England

Italy

Spain

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

Onomatopoeia

Pathetic Fallacy

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

Loving

Non-hierarchical

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

Mountains

The sun

The stars
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;"
struggles and howls

grumbles and groans

frolics and hops

arches and dives
24 The moon is personified as which of the following?
An old woman

A nun

A maiden

A baby
25 How many stanzas does this poem contain?
two

four

nine

six

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