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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 history of a king.
(b) Physical characteristics.
(c) The sculptor's talent.
(d) Personality and emotion.

2. 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) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Asyndeton.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what does the word "visage" refer to?

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

3. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

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

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

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