The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?

Metaphor

Pathetic Fallacy

Alliteration

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

William Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Keats

William Blake
3 Which is an example of simile?

"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"

"I am the daughter of Earth and Water"
4 The cloud is "the daughter of ______ and ______"

Earth and Sky

Sky and Water

Water and Wind

Earth and Water
5 The Cloud interacts with all but

Lightning

the Sunrise

the Moon

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

fall

trip

change

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

sanguine

red

sallow

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

iambic

anapestic

spondaic

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

a tiger

an eagle

a dove

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

Rebirth

Nature

Death

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

his admiration for classic poetry

his radical political beliefs

his epic poems

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?

clear skies

sunbeams

a rainbow

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

Political philosophy

His fellow poets

Dreams

Nature
16 Shelley was expelled from Oxford because ________

he refused to retract a pamphlet he published on atheism

he cheated on his essays

he refused to respect professors

he never attended class
17 Shelley was a great admirer of ______, a philosopher who was also Mary Shelley's father

William Wordsworth

William Godwin

Thomas More

Thomas Hobbes
18 Shelley drowned off the coast of _______

Italy

France

Spain

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

Anaphora

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration

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

Distant

Competitive

Loving

Non-hierarchical
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?

Women's Suffrage

Republicanism

Atheism

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

frolics and hops

grumbles and groans

struggles and howls

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

An old woman

A nun

A baby

A maiden
25 How many stanzas does this poem contain?

two

four

nine

six

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