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

William Blake

John Keats

William Wordsworth
3 Which is an example of simile?

"I am the daughter of Earth and Water"

"And white the green plains asunder/And then again I dissolve it in rain"

"Sunbeam-proof, I hang like a roof"

"I change, but I cannot die"
4 The cloud is "the daughter of ______ and ______"

Water and Wind

Earth and Sky

Earth and Water

Sky and Water
5 The Cloud interacts with all but

the Moon

Lightning

the mountains

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

trip

fall

sleep

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

sallow

rosy

red

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

anapestic

spondaic

trochaic

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

an eagle

a bear

a tiger

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

Power

Rebirth

Death

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

his admiration for classic poetry

his epic poems

his love for Mary Shelley

his radical political beliefs
12 A cenotaph is ______

a sign marking a historical location

an empty tomb or monument

a sarcophagus

a statue
13 "Like a child from the womb, like a _______ from the tomb"

body

ghost

skeleton

spirit
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

His fellow poets

Political philosophy

Nature
16 Shelley was expelled from Oxford because ________

he refused to respect professors

he cheated on his essays

he never attended class

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

Thomas More

Thomas Hobbes

William Wordsworth
18 Shelley drowned off the coast of _______

Italy

England

Spain

France
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"?

Distant

Loving

Non-hierarchical

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

The sun

Mountains

The stars

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

Women's Suffrage

Republicanism

Atheism

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

grumbles and groans

struggles and howls

frolics and hops

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

A baby

A maiden

An old woman

A nun
25 How many stanzas does this poem contain?

six

four

two

nine

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