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

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

3. Whose "passions" are referred to in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?
(a) The sculptor's.
(b) Ozymandias's.
(c) The traveler's.
(d) The speaker's.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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"?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the poem's form.

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

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

5. Briefly summarize the action of the poem.

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

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

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

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