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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

15. 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”?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Asyndeton.
(d) Antithesis.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

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

3. Which lines contain caesuras?

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

5. What title does Ozymandias give himself in the statue's inscription?

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