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

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

3. 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) Asyndeton.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Alliteration.

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

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

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 is the antecedent of the word "them" in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the poem's form.

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

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

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

7. Briefly summarize the action of the poem.

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

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