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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?
(a) Ballade.
(b) Villanelle.
(c) Rondeau.
(d) Sonnet.

2. In line 1, what word does the speaker use to describe the land where the traveler has been?
(a) "Far-off."
(b) "Foreign."
(c) "Mystic."
(d) "Antique."

3. What does Ozymandias's quote imply should be standing around the statue?
(a) Monuments and buildings.
(b) Gold and treasure.
(c) Military weaponry.
(d) The graves of enemy kings.

4. What is the meter of the poem's first two lines?
(a) Two iambs and two trochees.
(b) Iambic tetrameter.
(c) Iambic pentameter.
(d) Four iambs and a trochee.

5. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?
(a) His army.
(b) Future civilizations.
(c) His subjects.
(d) Other kings.

6. 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"?
(a) The history of a king.
(b) Personality and emotion.
(c) The sculptor's talent.
(d) Physical characteristics.

7. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what techniques are employed?
(a) Sibilance and synechdoche.
(b) Assonance and alliteration.
(c) Metonymy and assonance.
(d) Synechdoche and metonymy.

8. What technique is used in line 8, "The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed"?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Chiasmus.
(c) Parallelism.
(d) Paradox.

9. 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) Asyndeton.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Antithesis.

10. What does Ozymandias hope to inspire in his audience?
(a) Confidence and ambition.
(b) Reverence and respect.
(c) Awe and fear.
(d) Anxiety and suspicion.

11. What is the likely purpose of capitalizing "Works" (line 11) and "Wreck" (line 13)?
(a) To convey a sense of Ozymandias's hubris.
(b) To draw the reader's attention to the alliteration in these lines.
(c) To draw the reader's attention to the consonant rhyme.
(d) To stress that these are one and the same thing.

12. What is the antecedent of the word "them" in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?
(a) Lifeless things.
(b) Passions.
(c) Visage.
(d) Sculptor.

13. Which technique is evident in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?
(a) Consonance.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Personification.
(d) Anaphora.

14. Whose "passions" are referred to in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?
(a) The speaker's.
(b) The traveler's.
(c) Ozymandias's.
(d) The sculptor's.

15. Which is the best description of the statue's expression?
(a) Startled and bewildered.
(b) Cold and contemptuous.
(c) Passionate and angry.
(d) Impassive and distant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of landscape has the traveler been traveling through?

2. Which lines contain caesuras?

3. How many voices are heard in "Ozymandias"?

4. Whose hand is being referred to in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?

5. What part of the statue's face does the traveler describe?

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