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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 does the word "visage" refer to?
(a) An eye.
(b) A face.
(c) A piece of armor.
(d) A weapon.

2. 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."

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

10. 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 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 consonant rhyme.

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

12. 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) Antithesis.
(c) Asyndeton.
(d) Alliteration.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ozymandias hope to inspire in his audience?

3. Whose "passions" are referred to in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?

4. Which is the best description of the statue's expression?

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

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