The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?
Personification

Alliteration

Metaphor

Pathetic Fallacy
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?
"Sunbeam-proof, I hang like a roof"

"I am the daughter of Earth and Water"

"I change, but I cannot die"

"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

Water and Wind

Earth and Sky

Earth and Water
5 The Cloud interacts with all but
Lightning

the mountains

the Sunrise

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

sleep

trip

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

rosy

red

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

iambic

spondaic

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

a tiger

a dove

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

Power

Nature

Death
11 Of all the Romantic poets, Shelley was most known for _______
his admiration for classic poetry

his radical political beliefs

his love for Mary Shelley

his epic poems
12 A cenotaph is ______
a statue

an empty tomb or monument

a sarcophagus

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

spirit

ghost

skeleton
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?
His fellow poets

Political philosophy

Nature

Dreams
16 Shelley was expelled from Oxford because ________
he refused to respect professors

he never attended class

he refused to retract a pamphlet he published on atheism

he cheated on his essays
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 _______
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
Pathetic Fallacy

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration

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

Non-hierarchical

Competitive

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

Mountains

The stars

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

Atheism

Republicanism

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

frolics and hops

struggles and howls

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?
two

nine

four

six

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