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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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) Alliteration.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Asyndeton.
(d) Antithesis.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the rhyme scheme of "Ozymandias"?

4. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

5. What does Ozymandias's quote imply should be standing around the statue?

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