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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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) The history of a king.
(d) Personality and emotion.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

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

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

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

5. Which technique is evident in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?

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