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