Percy Bysshe Shelley - Quiz
Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • 1. What year was Percy Bysshe Shelley born?
A) 1800
B) 1785
C) 1792
D) 1810
  • 2. Who was Shelley's second wife?
A) Emilia Viviani
B) Harriet Westbrook
C) Mary Shelley
D) Claire Clairmont
  • 3. In which country did Shelley spend his final years?
A) Italy
B) Germany
C) France
D) Spain
  • 4. What school was Shelley expelled from for writing The Necessity of Atheism?
A) University of Oxford
B) Harrow School
C) University of Cambridge
D) Eton College
  • 5. Which contemporary poet critiqued Shelley's work in the Edinburgh Review?
A) John Keats
B) Francis Jeffrey
C) Lord Byron
D) William Wordsworth
  • 6. What was the title of Shelley's first major poem published in 1813?
A) Queen Mab
B) Alastor
C) The Cenci
D) Rosalind and Helen
  • 7. What was Percy Bysshe Shelley's occupation?
A) Poet
B) Politician
C) Lawyer
D) Doctor
  • 8. Which novel did Percy Bysshe Shelley co-write with Mary Shelley?
A) Frankenstein
B) The Vampyre
C) Dracula
D) The Monk
  • 9. Which poem by Shelley is known for its famous line 'O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being'?
A) Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
B) To a Skylark
C) Ode to the West Wind
D) Adonais
  • 10. Which of Shelley's works is inspired by the Greek myth of Prometheus?
A) To a Skylark
B) Prometheus Unbound
C) Julian and Maddalo
D) Ozymandias
  • 11. What was the name of Percy Bysshe Shelley's first wife?
A) Claire Clairmont
B) Mary Shelley
C) Emilia Viviani
D) Harriet Westbrook
  • 12. What was the title of Shelley's first novel published during his time at Eton?
A) The Necessity of Atheism
B) Queen Mab
C) St. Irvine; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance
D) Zastrozzi
  • 13. Who was Shelley's closest friend at Oxford?
A) Charles Howard
B) Thomas Jefferson Hogg
C) William Godwin
D) Robert Southey
  • 14. Where did Shelley and Harriet get married for the first time?
A) Oxford
B) Warnham, Sussex
C) London
D) Edinburgh, Scotland
  • 15. Which poem by Shelley is known for its theme of impermanence and decay?
A) The Mask of Anarchy
B) Adonais
C) Ozymandias
D) To a Skylark
  • 16. Who was Shelley's mentor at Eton College?
A) James Lind
B) Thomas Jefferson Hogg
C) Robert Southey
D) George Rowley
  • 17. What is the title of Shelley's verse drama written in 1819?
A) Prometheus Unbound
B) The Cenci
C) Hellas
D) Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude
  • 18. What was Shelley's relationship with his cousin Harriet Grove?
A) Sibling-like friendship
B) Romantic, which later broke down
C) Professional collaboration
D) Platonic and lifelong
  • 19. What did Shelley propose for his communal household with Elizabeth Hitchener?
A) Sharing all property
B) Focusing on religious studies
C) Engaging in political activism
D) Living in separate quarters
  • 20. Which Irish political figure did Shelley meet during his stay in Ireland?
A) Daniel O'Connell
B) Charles Howard
C) William Godwin
D) Robert Southey
  • 21. What was the relationship between Mary Godwin and William Godwin?
A) Uncle and niece
B) Brother and sister
C) Cousins
D) Father and daughter
  • 22. Who accompanied Shelley and Mary on their elopement?
A) Harriet Westbrook
B) Claire Clairmont, Mary's step-sister
C) William Godwin
D) Hannah Williams
  • 23. What was Mary's situation after their return to England?
A) She moved to France with Shelley
B) She was pregnant, lonely, depressed, and ill
C) She quickly found a new home in London
D) She reconciled with Harriet
  • 24. What is the title of Shelley's work that was an atheistic response to Coleridge's 'Hymn before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamoni'?
A) "Prometheus Unbound"
B) "The Sensitive Plant"
C) "Mont Blanc"
D) "A Defence of Poetry"
  • 25. On what date did Percy Bysshe Shelley and Edward Williams sail to Livorno?
A) 1 July 1822
B) 8 July 1822
C) 10 July 1822
D) 16 August 1822
  • 26. On what date was Shelley's body cremated near Viareggio?
A) 1 July 1822
B) 10 July 1822
C) 16 August 1822
D) 8 July 1822
  • 27. Which new journal were Shelley, Leigh Hunt, and Byron planning to arrange in Livorno?
A) The Liberal
B) The Courier
C) Queen Mab
D) A Philosophical View of Reform
  • 28. Which Shelley work was originally written in Italian?
A) 'Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things'
B) 'Una Favola (A Fable)'
C) 'The Coliseum, A Fragment'
D) 'The Assassins, A Fragment of a Romance'
  • 29. Which of Shelley's dramas was left unfinished at the time of his death?
A) The Cenci
B) Prometheus Unbound
C) Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant
D) Charles the First
  • 30. What Latin inscription is on Shelley's grave?
A) Nothing of him that doth fade
B) Cor Cordium
C) Sea change
D) Ariel's Song
  • 31. Where did Shelley's body wash ashore after the shipwreck?
A) Lerici
B) Livorno
C) Rome
D) Viareggio
  • 32. Who initially preserved the scorched heart in spirits of wine?
A) Mary Shelley
B) Trelawny
C) Byron
D) Hunt
  • 33. What did Hazlitt describe as 'a passionate dream, a straining after impossibilities'?
A) Shelley's style
B) Shelley's political views
C) Shelley's personal life
D) Shelley's social interactions
  • 34. What was the name of Shelley's son who died in June 1819?
A) Percy Florence
B) Charles
C) William
D) Alba
  • 35. Which society was inspired by Shelley's life and works to be founded in England?
A) The Health Reform Society
B) The Natural Living Association
C) The Animal Rights Society
D) The Vegetarian Society
  • 36. Which of Shelley's works was a collaboration with Mary Shelley and published in 1820?
A) Midas
B) 'Una Favola (A Fable)'
C) History of a Six Weeks' Tour
D) Proserpine
  • 37. In what year was Shelley's 'Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things' rediscovered?
A) 1985
B) 2006
C) 2014
D) 1999
  • 38. How was Alastor received upon publication?
A) It became an instant bestseller
B) It won a prestigious literary award
C) It had poor sales and largely unfavourable reviews from the conservative press
D) It was ignored by critics
  • 39. Which work by Percy Bysshe Shelley was a collaboration with Mary Shelley and published in 1820?
A) Proserpine
B) 'Una Favola (A Fable)'
C) History of a Six Weeks' Tour
D) Midas
  • 40. Which organ from Shelley's body resisted burning and was retrieved by Trelawny?
A) Arm
B) Liver
C) Jawbone
D) Heart
  • 41. Which ancient author did NOT influence Shelley's vegetarianism according to the text?
A) Homer
B) Pythagoras
C) Socrates
D) Plato
  • 42. Which poem by Shelley was inspired by his relationship with Teresa (Emilia) Viviani?
A) "Epipsychidion"
B) "A Defence of Poetry"
C) "Ode to the West Wind"
D) "The Triumph of Life"
  • 43. How many legitimate children did Shelley have with his first wife Harriet?
A) Four
B) One
C) Two
D) Three
  • 44. Which Shelley work was published in 1822 and is a chapbook?
A) Zastrozzi
B) Wolfstein; or, The Mysterious Bandit
C) St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian
D) Hellas
  • 45. Which political thinker was not an influence on Shelley's radical views?
A) Paine
B) Byron
C) Rousseau
D) Godwin
  • 46. Which poet described Shelley as a 'beautiful and ineffectual angel'?
A) Percy Bysshe Shelley
B) Matthew Arnold
C) Lord Byron
D) John Keats
  • 47. In which city did Shelley and Mary experience a decline in health due to the death of their son William?
A) Florence
B) Rome
C) Pisa
D) Livorno
  • 48. In what year did Claire initiate a sexual relationship with Lord Byron?
A) June 1815
B) July 1818
C) May 1817
D) April 1816
  • 49. Who argued that Percy Bysshe Shelley significantly contributed to Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' and should be considered a collaborator?
A) D. H. Reiman
B) Fiona Sampson
C) Charles E. Robinson
D) Charlotte Gordon
  • 50. What did Shelley work on while living in Bishopsgate?
A) A novel about his elopement
B) Alastor, a long poem in blank verse
C) A series of essays on political reform
D) A collection of love letters
  • 51. Who identified Shelley's body at Viareggio?
A) Leigh Hunt
B) Mary Shelley
C) Trelawny
D) Byron
  • 52. Who was the direct influencer of Shelley's conversion to a vegetable diet through his work 'The Return to Nature, or, A Defence of the Vegetable Regimen'?
A) William Wordsworth
B) Lord Byron
C) John Frank Newton
D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • 53. Which philosopher's materialist arguments influenced Shelley's atheism?
A) Nietzsche
B) Holbach
C) Kant
D) Hegel
  • 54. Which city did Shelley move to in January 1820, ostensibly for medical consultation?
A) Rome
B) Pisa
C) Florence
D) Livorno
  • 55. Which Irish figure did Shelley sympathize with but not support in terms of violent rebellion?
A) Eamon de Valera
B) Michael Collins
C) Daniel O'Connell
D) Robert Emmet
  • 56. In early March 1812, Shelley converted to what type of diet?
A) gluten-free
B) pescatarian
C) meat-based
D) vegetable
  • 57. Which poem did Shelley write in memory of John Keats?
A) "Adonais"
B) "Ozymandias"
C) "The Cloud"
D) "To a Skylark"
  • 58. What was the name of the 19-year-old daughter Shelley met in Pisa?
A) Emilia Viviani
B) Jane Williams
C) Claire Clairmont
D) Mary Godwin
  • 59. Which literary critic described Shelley as 'a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival'?
A) F.R. Leavis
B) Allen Tate
C) Harold Bloom
D) T.S. Eliot
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