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