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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

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

3. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

4. How many voices are heard in "Ozymandias"?

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

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