The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?
Metaphor

Pathetic Fallacy

Personification

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

William Blake

William Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3 Which is an example of simile?
"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"

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

Earth and Water

Earth and Sky

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

the Moon

the mountains

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

sleep

trip

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

sanguine

red

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

trochaic

anapestic

spondaic
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?
Rebirth

Power

Death

Nature
11 Of all the Romantic poets, Shelley was most known for _______
his radical political beliefs

his love for Mary Shelley

his admiration for classic poetry

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

an empty tomb or monument

a sarcophagus

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

spirit

body

ghost
14 As the Cloud "marches" across the sky, what follows in its wake?
a rainbow

sunbeams

clear skies

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

His fellow poets

Nature

Political philosophy
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 _______
England

Spain

France

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

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

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

Distant

Loving

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

The stars

The sun

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

Vegetarianism

Atheism

Women's Suffrage
23 "In a cavern under is fettered the thunder, It __ and __ at fits;"
grumbles and groans

arches and dives

frolics and hops

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

An old woman

A baby

A nun
25 How many stanzas does this poem contain?
four

six

two

nine

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