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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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) Asyndeton.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

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

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

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

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