The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?
Metaphor

Personification

Alliteration

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

William Blake

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

"I am the daughter of Earth and Water"

"Sunbeam-proof, I hang like a roof"

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

Earth and Water

Sky and Water

Water and Wind
5 The Cloud interacts with all but
Lightning

the mountains

the Moon

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

fall

change

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

sallow

red

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

iambic

spondaic

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

an eagle

a dove

a tiger
10 Which of the following is NOT a theme of the poem?
Rebirth

Power

Death

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

his radical political beliefs

his love for Mary Shelley

his epic poems
12 A cenotaph is ______
an empty tomb or monument

a sarcophagus

a sign marking a historical location

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?
a rainbow

clear skies

sunbeams

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

Dreams

Political philosophy

Nature
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
Thomas More

William Godwin

William Wordsworth

Thomas Hobbes
18 Shelley drowned off the coast of _______
France

Spain

England

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

Onomatopoeia

Anaphora

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

Competitive

Non-hierarchical

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

The sun

Lightning

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

Atheism

Women's Suffrage

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

arches and dives

grumbles and groans

frolics and hops
24 The moon is personified as which of the following?
A baby

A nun

An old woman

A maiden
25 How many stanzas does this poem contain?
six

two

nine

four

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