1. Whose hand is being referred to in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?
(a) Rival kings.
(b) Ozymandias's.
(c) Ozymandias's subjects.
(d) The sculptor's.

2. What kind of landscape has the traveler been traveling through?
(a) Swampland.
(b) Desert.
(c) Mountains.
(d) Savannah.

3. What is the rhyme scheme of "Ozymandias"?
(a) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
(b) ABAB ACDC EDEF EF.
(c) ABAB ACAC ADAD EE.
(d) ABAB BCBC CDCD EF.

4. What technique is employed in the poem's final two lines, "Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare/ The lone and level sands stretch far away”?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Asyndeton.
(d) Antithesis.

5. Which lines contain caesuras?
(a) Lines 5 and 6.
(b) Lines 11 and 12.
(c) Lines 2 and 3.
(d) Lines 8 and 9.

Short Answer Questions

1. In lines 6 and 7, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read/ Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things," what it is that is "stamped," on the "lifeless things"?

2. Which technique is evident in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?

3. What does Ozymandias hope to inspire in his audience?

4. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

5. What is the likely purpose of capitalizing "Works" (line 11) and "Wreck" (line 13)?

(see the answer key)

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