The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?
Pathetic Fallacy

Personification

Metaphor

Alliteration
2 Shelley famously admonished which first-generation Romantic poet for his conservative ideals?
John Keats

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Blake

William Wordsworth
3 Which is an example of simile?
"I am the daughter of Earth and Water"

"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"
4 The cloud is "the daughter of ______ and ______"
Sky and Water

Water and Wind

Earth and Sky

Earth and Water
5 The Cloud interacts with all but
the Sunrise

Lightning

the mountains

the Moon
6 "I ______, but I cannot die."
sleep

fall

trip

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

red

rosy

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

spondaic

iambic

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

a bear

a dove

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

Death

Rebirth

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 ______
an empty tomb or monument

a sarcophagus

a statue

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

body

ghost

spirit
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

Nature

Dreams

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
William Godwin

William Wordsworth

Thomas Hobbes

Thomas More
18 Shelley drowned off the coast of _______
France

Spain

Italy

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

Alliteration

Pathetic Fallacy

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

Distant

Non-hierarchical

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

The stars

The sun

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

Vegetarianism

Women's Suffrage

Republicanism
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 nun

A maiden

A baby

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

four

two

nine

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