The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?
Pathetic Fallacy

Alliteration

Personification

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Blake

John Keats
3 Which is an example of simile?
"Sunbeam-proof, I hang like a roof"

"I am the daughter of Earth and Water"

"I change, but I cannot die"

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

the Sunrise

Lightning

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

sleep

fall

trip
7 "The _______ Sunrise, with his meteor eyes"
red

rosy

sanguine

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

anapestic

spondaic

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

a tiger

a bear

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

Death

Nature

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

his radical political beliefs

his admiration for classic poetry

his epic poems
12 A cenotaph is ______
a sign marking a historical location

a sarcophagus

a statue

an empty tomb or monument
13 "Like a child from the womb, like a _______ from the tomb"
ghost

skeleton

body

spirit
14 As the Cloud "marches" across the sky, what follows in its wake?
sunbeams

a rainbow

clear skies

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

His fellow poets

Dreams

Political philosophy
16 Shelley was expelled from Oxford because ________
he refused to respect professors

he cheated on his essays

he refused to retract a pamphlet he published on atheism

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

Thomas Hobbes

William Godwin

Thomas More
18 Shelley drowned off the coast of _______
Spain

England

France

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

Anaphora

Pathetic Fallacy

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

Non-hierarchical

Loving

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

The sun

The stars

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

Women's Suffrage

Atheism

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

frolics and hops

grumbles and groans

struggles and howls
24 The moon is personified as which of the following?
A nun

A baby

An old woman

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

four

two

nine

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