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