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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

4. What is the likely purpose of capitalizing "Works" (line 11) and "Wreck" (line 13)?
(a) To stress that these are one and the same thing.
(b) To convey a sense of Ozymandias's hubris.
(c) To draw the reader's attention to the alliteration in these lines.
(d) To draw the reader's attention to the consonant rhyme.

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what techniques are employed?

2. What is the antecedent of the word "them" in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?

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

4. 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"?

5. Which lines contain caesuras?

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