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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

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

11. What does Ozymandias's quote imply should be standing around the statue?
(a) Monuments and buildings.
(b) Military weaponry.
(c) Gold and treasure.
(d) The graves of enemy kings.

12. 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.

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

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

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. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

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

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

4. 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"?

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”?

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