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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?
(a) Lord Byron.
(b) William Wordsworth.
(c) William Blake.
(d) Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What title does Ozymandias give himself in the statue's inscription?

2. In line 1, what word does the speaker use to describe the land where the traveler has been?

3. What is the meter of the poem's first two lines?

4. What is the antecedent of the word "them" in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?

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

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