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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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.

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

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