The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?
Alliteration

Personification

Pathetic Fallacy

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 am the daughter of Earth and Water"

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

"I change, but I cannot die"

"Sunbeam-proof, I hang like a roof"
4 The cloud is "the daughter of ______ and ______"
Earth and Water

Water and Wind

Earth and Sky

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

the mountains

the Sunrise

Lightning
6 "I ______, but I cannot die."
trip

fall

sleep

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

red

sanguine

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

iambic

trochaic

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

a tiger

an eagle

a dove
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 epic poems

his love for Mary Shelley

his admiration for classic poetry

his radical political beliefs
12 A cenotaph is ______
a sarcophagus

a sign marking a historical location

an empty tomb or monument

a statue
13 "Like a child from the womb, like a _______ from the tomb"
skeleton

spirit

ghost

body
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?
His fellow poets

Dreams

Political philosophy

Nature
16 Shelley was expelled from Oxford because ________
he never attended class

he refused to retract a pamphlet he published on atheism

he refused to respect professors

he cheated on his essays
17 Shelley was a great admirer of ______, a philosopher who was also Mary Shelley's father
Thomas Hobbes

William Wordsworth

William Godwin

Thomas More
18 Shelley drowned off the coast of _______
Italy

England

Spain

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

Pathetic Fallacy

Alliteration

Anaphora
20 Which best characterizes the relationships described in "The Cloud"?
Non-hierarchical

Loving

Competitive

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?
Republicanism

Women's Suffrage

Vegetarianism

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

A maiden

A nun

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

two

six

four

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