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

2. What technique is used in line 8, "The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed"?
(a) Parallelism.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Chiasmus.

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

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

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

Short Answer 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"?

2. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

3. Which lines contain caesuras?

4. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

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

(see the answer key)

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