The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?

Metaphor

Alliteration

Pathetic Fallacy

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

William Wordsworth

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"

"I am the daughter of Earth and Water"

"I change, but I cannot die"

"Sunbeam-proof, I hang like a roof"
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 Sunrise

the Moon

Lightning

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

sleep

fall

trip

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

sallow

rosy

red

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

trochaic

iambic

anapestic

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

a dove

an eagle

a tiger

a bear
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 love for Mary Shelley

his radical political beliefs

his epic poems

his admiration for classic poetry
12 A cenotaph is ______

an empty tomb or monument

a statue

a sign marking a historical location

a sarcophagus
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?

clear skies

sunbeams

a rainbow

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

Thomas Hobbes

Thomas More

William Wordsworth

William Godwin
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

Pathetic Fallacy

Anaphora

Alliteration

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

Competitive

Loving

Distant

Non-hierarchical
21 Which of the following does the cloud describe as a "pilot"?

Mountains

The stars

Lightning

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

Women's Suffrage

Republicanism

Vegetarianism

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

frolics and hops

struggles and howls

grumbles and groans

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

An old woman

A baby

A maiden

A nun
25 How many stanzas does this poem contain?

nine

six

four

two

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