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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose hand is being referred to in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?

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

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

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

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