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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many voices are heard in "Ozymandias"?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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) Physical characteristics.
(c) The sculptor's talent.
(d) Personality and emotion.

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

15. What title does Ozymandias give himself in the statue's inscription?
(a) Egypt's King.
(b) King of Kings.
(c) Fearsome King.
(d) All-Powerful King.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

3. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what techniques are employed?

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

5. What part of the statue is still standing when the traveler sees it?

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