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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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. What is the meter of the poem's first two lines?

3. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

4. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

5. What part of the statue's face does the traveler describe?

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