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Percy Bysshe Shelley - Quiz
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  • 1. What year was Percy Bysshe Shelley born?
A) 1792
B) 1800
C) 1810
D) 1785
  • 2. Who was Shelley's second wife?
A) Emilia Viviani
B) Mary Shelley
C) Harriet Westbrook
D) Claire Clairmont
  • 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 Oxford
B) Eton College
C) University of Cambridge
D) Harrow School
  • 5. Which contemporary poet critiqued Shelley's work in the Edinburgh Review?
A) John Keats
B) William Wordsworth
C) Francis Jeffrey
D) Lord Byron
  • 6. What was the title of Shelley's first major poem published in 1813?
A) Alastor
B) Rosalind and Helen
C) The Cenci
D) Queen Mab
  • 7. What was Percy Bysshe Shelley's occupation?
A) Doctor
B) Politician
C) Lawyer
D) Poet
  • 8. Which novel did Percy Bysshe Shelley co-write with Mary Shelley?
A) Frankenstein
B) The Monk
C) The Vampyre
D) Dracula
  • 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) Julian and Maddalo
C) Ozymandias
D) Prometheus Unbound
  • 11. What was the name of Percy Bysshe Shelley's first wife?
A) Emilia Viviani
B) Claire Clairmont
C) Mary Shelley
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) Queen Mab
D) St. Irvine; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance
  • 13. Who was Shelley's closest friend at Oxford?
A) William Godwin
B) Charles Howard
C) Thomas Jefferson Hogg
D) Robert Southey
  • 14. Where did Shelley and Harriet get married for the first time?
A) Oxford
B) London
C) Warnham, Sussex
D) Edinburgh, Scotland
  • 15. Which poem by Shelley is known for its theme of impermanence and decay?
A) To a Skylark
B) The Mask of Anarchy
C) Ozymandias
D) Adonais
  • 16. Who was Shelley's mentor at Eton College?
A) George Rowley
B) Thomas Jefferson Hogg
C) James Lind
D) Robert Southey
  • 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) Romantic, which later broke down
B) Professional collaboration
C) Platonic and lifelong
D) Sibling-like friendship
  • 19. What did Shelley propose for his communal household with Elizabeth Hitchener?
A) Sharing all property
B) Engaging in political activism
C) Focusing on religious studies
D) Living in separate quarters
  • 20. Which Irish political figure did Shelley meet during his stay in Ireland?
A) Robert Southey
B) Daniel O'Connell
C) William Godwin
D) Charles Howard
  • 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) Hannah Williams
B) Harriet Westbrook
C) Claire Clairmont, Mary's step-sister
D) William Godwin
  • 23. What was Mary's situation after their return to England?
A) She was pregnant, lonely, depressed, and ill
B) She quickly found a new home in London
C) She moved to France with Shelley
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) "The Sensitive Plant"
B) "Mont Blanc"
C) "Prometheus Unbound"
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) 16 August 1822
D) 10 July 1822
  • 26. On what date was Shelley's body cremated near Viareggio?
A) 1 July 1822
B) 16 August 1822
C) 10 July 1822
D) 8 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) The Courier
D) Queen Mab
  • 28. Which Shelley work was originally written in Italian?
A) 'The Assassins, A Fragment of a Romance'
B) 'The Coliseum, A Fragment'
C) 'Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things'
D) 'Una Favola (A Fable)'
  • 29. Which of Shelley's dramas was left unfinished at the time of his death?
A) The Cenci
B) Prometheus Unbound
C) Charles the First
D) Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant
  • 30. What Latin inscription is on Shelley's grave?
A) Nothing of him that doth fade
B) Sea change
C) Cor Cordium
D) Ariel's Song
  • 31. Where did Shelley's body wash ashore after the shipwreck?
A) Viareggio
B) Rome
C) Lerici
D) Livorno
  • 32. Who initially preserved the scorched heart in spirits of wine?
A) Hunt
B) Trelawny
C) Byron
D) Mary Shelley
  • 33. What did Hazlitt describe as 'a passionate dream, a straining after impossibilities'?
A) Shelley's political views
B) Shelley's style
C) Shelley's social interactions
D) Shelley's personal life
  • 34. What was the name of Shelley's son who died in June 1819?
A) Alba
B) Percy Florence
C) William
D) Charles
  • 35. Which society was inspired by Shelley's life and works to be founded in England?
A) The Health Reform Society
B) The Animal Rights Society
C) The Vegetarian Society
D) The Natural Living Association
  • 36. Which of Shelley's works was a collaboration with Mary Shelley and published in 1820?
A) Midas
B) Proserpine
C) History of a Six Weeks' Tour
D) 'Una Favola (A Fable)'
  • 37. In what year was Shelley's 'Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things' rediscovered?
A) 1999
B) 2006
C) 1985
D) 2014
  • 38. How was Alastor received upon publication?
A) It was ignored by critics
B) It had poor sales and largely unfavourable reviews from the conservative press
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) Liver
B) Heart
C) Jawbone
D) Arm
  • 41. Which ancient author did NOT influence Shelley's vegetarianism according to the text?
A) Homer
B) Plato
C) Socrates
D) Pythagoras
  • 42. 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"
  • 43. How many legitimate children did Shelley have with his first wife Harriet?
A) One
B) Four
C) Three
D) Two
  • 44. Which Shelley work was published in 1822 and is a chapbook?
A) St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian
B) Zastrozzi
C) Hellas
D) Wolfstein; or, The Mysterious Bandit
  • 45. Which political thinker was not an influence on Shelley's radical views?
A) Godwin
B) Byron
C) Rousseau
D) Paine
  • 46. Which poet described Shelley as a 'beautiful and ineffectual angel'?
A) Matthew Arnold
B) Percy Bysshe Shelley
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) Livorno
B) Pisa
C) Florence
D) Rome
  • 48. In what year did Claire initiate a sexual relationship with Lord Byron?
A) July 1818
B) April 1816
C) June 1815
D) May 1817
  • 49. Who argued that Percy Bysshe Shelley significantly contributed to Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' and should be considered a collaborator?
A) Charlotte Gordon
B) Charles E. Robinson
C) D. H. Reiman
D) Fiona Sampson
  • 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) A collection of love letters
D) Alastor, a long poem in blank verse
  • 51. Who identified Shelley's body at Viareggio?
A) Mary Shelley
B) Leigh Hunt
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) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B) Lord Byron
C) William Wordsworth
D) John Frank Newton
  • 53. Which philosopher's materialist arguments influenced Shelley's atheism?
A) Holbach
B) Nietzsche
C) Hegel
D) Kant
  • 54. Which city did Shelley move to in January 1820, ostensibly for medical consultation?
A) Florence
B) Livorno
C) Pisa
D) Rome
  • 55. 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
  • 56. In early March 1812, Shelley converted to what type of diet?
A) vegetable
B) meat-based
C) pescatarian
D) gluten-free
  • 57. Which poem did Shelley write in memory of John Keats?
A) "To a Skylark"
B) "Ozymandias"
C) "Adonais"
D) "The Cloud"
  • 58. What was the name of the 19-year-old daughter Shelley met in Pisa?
A) Mary Godwin
B) Emilia Viviani
C) Jane Williams
D) Claire Clairmont
  • 59. 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
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