The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?

Pathetic Fallacy

Alliteration

Personification

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

William Blake

William Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Keats
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 ______"

Water and Wind

Earth and Water

Sky and Water

Earth and Sky
5 The Cloud interacts with all but

the Moon

the Sunrise

Lightning

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

change

sleep

fall

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

sanguine

rosy

red

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

anapestic

trochaic

iambic

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

a dove

an eagle

a bear

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

Power

Nature

Death

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

his radical political beliefs

his love for Mary Shelley

his admiration for classic poetry

his epic poems
12 A cenotaph is ______

a sarcophagus

a statue

an empty tomb or monument

a sign marking a historical location
13 "Like a child from the womb, like a _______ from the tomb"

skeleton

ghost

spirit

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

sunbeams

clear skies

a rainbow

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

Dreams

Nature

His fellow poets

Political philosophy
16 Shelley was expelled from Oxford because ________

he refused to retract a pamphlet he published on atheism

he refused to respect professors

he cheated on his essays

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 _______

France

Italy

England

Spain
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"?

Distant

Loving

Non-hierarchical

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

Mountains

Lightning

The stars

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

Vegetarianism

Republicanism

Atheism

Women's Suffrage
23 "In a cavern under is fettered the thunder, It __ and __ at fits;"

frolics and hops

arches and dives

grumbles and groans

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

A baby

An old woman

A nun

A maiden
25 How many stanzas does this poem contain?

two

six

four

nine

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