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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

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