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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which technique is evident in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?

2. What part of the statue's face does the traveler describe?

3. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what does the word "visage" refer to?

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

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

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