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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What part of the statue is still standing when the traveler sees it?
(a) Just the head.
(b) The legs and torso.
(c) Just the legs.
(d) The torso and head.

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

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

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

5. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what does the word "visage" refer to?
(a) A piece of armor.
(b) An eye.
(c) A face.
(d) A weapon.

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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) Antithesis.
(d) Asyndeton.

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

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

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

15. What part of the statue's face does the traveler describe?
(a) The eyes.
(b) The brow.
(c) The jaw.
(d) The mouth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

2. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

3. What is the rhyme scheme of "Ozymandias"?

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

5. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

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