The Cloud Quizzes

The Cloud Quiz

1 Shelley utilizes which literary device most frequently?
Metaphor

Pathetic Fallacy

Alliteration

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

John Keats

William Wordsworth

William Blake
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 ______"
Earth and Sky

Earth and Water

Water and Wind

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

the mountains

Lightning

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

change

trip

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

rosy

red

sanguine
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 dove

an eagle

a bear

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

Rebirth

Nature

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

his admiration for classic poetry

his epic poems

his radical political beliefs
12 A cenotaph is ______
a statue

an empty tomb or monument

a sarcophagus

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

spirit

skeleton

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

Political philosophy

His fellow poets

Nature
16 Shelley was expelled from Oxford because ________
he cheated on his essays

he refused to respect professors

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
Thomas More

William Wordsworth

Thomas Hobbes

William Godwin
18 Shelley drowned off the coast of _______
Spain

Italy

France

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

Pathetic Fallacy

Onomatopoeia

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

Loving

Non-hierarchical

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

The sun

Lightning

The stars
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;"
arches and dives

grumbles and groans

frolics and hops

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

A baby

An old woman

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

nine

six

two

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