The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?
Alliteration

Metaphor

Personification

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Wordsworth

John Keats
3 Which is an example of simile?
"Sunbeam-proof, I hang like a roof"

"I change, but I cannot die"

"I am the daughter of Earth and Water"

"And white the green plains asunder/And then again I dissolve it in rain"
4 The cloud is "the daughter of ______ and ______"
Earth and Water

Earth and Sky

Sky and Water

Water and Wind
5 The Cloud interacts with all but
the Moon

Lightning

the Sunrise

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

change

fall

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

sanguine

rosy

sallow
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 tiger

an eagle

a bear

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

Death

Power

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

his love for Mary Shelley

his radical political beliefs

his epic poems
12 A cenotaph is ______
a sarcophagus

a sign marking a historical location

a statue

an empty tomb or monument
13 "Like a child from the womb, like a _______ from the tomb"
spirit

skeleton

ghost

body
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?
Dreams

Political philosophy

Nature

His fellow poets
16 Shelley was expelled from Oxford because ________
he refused to respect professors

he never attended class

he cheated on his essays

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
Thomas Hobbes

Thomas More

William Godwin

William Wordsworth
18 Shelley drowned off the coast of _______
Spain

Italy

France

England
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"?
Loving

Non-hierarchical

Distant

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

The stars

Lightning

Mountains
22 Which of the following did Shelley NOT advocate for?
Vegetarianism

Women's Suffrage

Republicanism

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

frolics and hops

arches and dives

grumbles and groans
24 The moon is personified as which of the following?
A nun

A maiden

A baby

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

two

six

nine

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