The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?
Pathetic Fallacy

Metaphor

Alliteration

Personification
2 Shelley famously admonished which first-generation Romantic poet for his conservative ideals?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Keats

William Wordsworth

William Blake
3 Which is an example of simile?
"And white the green plains asunder/And then again I dissolve it in rain"

"I change, but I cannot die"

"I am the daughter of Earth and Water"

"Sunbeam-proof, I hang like a roof"
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 Sunrise

the Moon

the mountains

Lightning
6 "I ______, but I cannot die."
sleep

change

trip

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

red

sanguine

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

spondaic

trochaic

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

a tiger

a dove

an eagle
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 epic poems

his admiration for classic poetry

his love for Mary Shelley
12 A cenotaph is ______
a sign marking a historical location

a sarcophagus

an empty tomb or monument

a statue
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

a rainbow

clear skies

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

Nature

Political philosophy

Dreams
16 Shelley was expelled from Oxford because ________
he cheated on his essays

he never attended class

he refused to respect professors

he refused to retract a pamphlet he published on atheism
17 Shelley was a great admirer of ______, a philosopher who was also Mary Shelley's father
William Godwin

William Wordsworth

Thomas More

Thomas Hobbes
18 Shelley drowned off the coast of _______
Spain

Italy

England

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

Anaphora

Onomatopoeia

Pathetic Fallacy
20 Which best characterizes the relationships described in "The Cloud"?
Non-hierarchical

Loving

Competitive

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

Mountains

The sun

Lightning
22 Which of the following did Shelley NOT advocate for?
Republicanism

Women's Suffrage

Vegetarianism

Atheism
23 "In a cavern under is fettered the thunder, It __ and __ at fits;"
frolics and hops

arches and dives

struggles and howls

grumbles and groans
24 The moon is personified as which of the following?
An old woman

A baby

A maiden

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

six

nine

four

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