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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Antithesis.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Asyndeton.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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.

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

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

14. 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.

15. 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) Personality and emotion.
(c) The history of a king.
(d) Physical characteristics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What part of the statue is still standing when the traveler sees it?

3. What part of the statue's face does the traveler describe?

4. Whose hand is being referred to in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?

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

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