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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which lines contain caesuras?

3. 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”?

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

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

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