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

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

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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 convey a sense of Ozymandias's hubris.
(c) To draw the reader's attention to the consonant rhyme.
(d) To stress that these are one and the same thing.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Which lines contain caesuras?

5. What does Ozymandias's quote imply should be standing around the statue?

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