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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) The torso and head.
(b) Just the head.
(c) Just the legs.
(d) The legs and torso.

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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 speaker's.
(d) The traveler's.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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