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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

7. What does Ozymandias hope to inspire in his audience?
(a) Awe and fear.
(b) Confidence and ambition.
(c) Reverence and respect.
(d) Anxiety and suspicion.

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

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

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

11. 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) The sculptor's talent.
(c) Physical characteristics.
(d) Personality and emotion.

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 1, what word does the speaker use to describe the land where the traveler has been?

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

3. How many voices are heard in "Ozymandias"?

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

5. Which technique is evident in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?

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