View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "Ozymandias" lines 1-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the antecedent of the word "them" in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?
(a) Passions.
(b) Visage.
(c) Lifeless things.
(d) Sculptor.

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

4. What is the meter of the poem's first two lines?
(a) Two iambs and two trochees.
(b) Iambic tetrameter.
(c) Iambic pentameter.
(d) Four iambs and a trochee.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose hand is being referred to in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?

2. 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”?

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 rhyme scheme of "Ozymandias"?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 233 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample