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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the best description of the statue's expression?

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

3. What is the rhyme scheme of "Ozymandias"?

4. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

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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