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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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"?
(a) Personality and emotion.
(b) The history of a king.
(c) Physical characteristics.
(d) The sculptor's talent.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In line 1, what word does the speaker use to describe the land where the traveler has been?

4. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

5. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

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