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