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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) Assonance and alliteration.
(b) Metonymy and assonance.
(c) Sibilance and synechdoche.
(d) Synechdoche and metonymy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

2. 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"?

3. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

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

5. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

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