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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 8 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of landscape has the traveler been traveling through?

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

3. What is the meter of the poem's first two lines?

4. What title does Ozymandias give himself in the statue's inscription?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly summarize the action of the poem.

2. What poetic techniques create impact in the line, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies" (line 4)?

3. How does the epithet that Ozymandias gives himself help the reader understand the intentions behind his quote?

4. Describe the poem's form.

5. What claims does the poem make about the statue's sculptor?

6. How does the poem's setting support its main point?

7. Identify the three voices heard in "Ozymandias."

8. Explain the irony of the poem's ending.

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