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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

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

3. What technique is used in line 8, "The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed"?

4. What is the likely purpose of capitalizing "Works" (line 11) and "Wreck" (line 13)?

5. How many voices are heard in "Ozymandias"?

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