The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?
Alliteration

Pathetic Fallacy

Personification

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

John Keats

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Wordsworth
3 Which is an example of simile?
"I change, but I cannot die"

"Sunbeam-proof, I hang like a roof"

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

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

Sky and Water

Earth and Water

Earth and Sky
5 The Cloud interacts with all but
the Moon

the Sunrise

Lightning

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

change

sleep

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

red

sallow

rosy
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?
a dove

a bear

a tiger

an eagle
10 Which of the following is NOT a theme of the poem?
Death

Rebirth

Power

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

his epic poems

his admiration for classic poetry

his radical political beliefs
12 A cenotaph is ______
a sarcophagus

a statue

an empty tomb or monument

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

ghost

skeleton

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?
Political philosophy

His fellow poets

Nature

Dreams
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
William Godwin

Thomas Hobbes

William Wordsworth

Thomas More
18 Shelley drowned off the coast of _______
England

Spain

Italy

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

Pathetic Fallacy

Anaphora

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

Competitive

Non-hierarchical

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

The stars

Mountains

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

Republicanism

Women's Suffrage

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

arches and dives

frolics and hops

grumbles and groans
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?
four

two

nine

six

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