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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 convey a sense of Ozymandias's hubris.
(c) To draw the reader's attention to the alliteration in these lines.
(d) To draw the reader's attention to the consonant rhyme.

3. 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) Physical characteristics.
(c) The sculptor's talent.
(d) The history of a king.

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what techniques are employed?

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

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

5. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

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