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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose hand is being referred to in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?
(a) Ozymandias's subjects.
(b) Ozymandias's.
(c) The sculptor's.
(d) Rival kings.

2. What is the likely purpose of capitalizing "Works" (line 11) and "Wreck" (line 13)?
(a) To stress that these are one and the same thing.
(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 convey a sense of Ozymandias's hubris.

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

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

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

6. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?
(a) William Wordsworth.
(b) Lord Byron.
(c) William Blake.
(d) Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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

8. 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.

9. How many voices are heard in "Ozymandias"?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

10. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what does the word "visage" refer to?
(a) A face.
(b) A weapon.
(c) An eye.
(d) A piece of armor.

11. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what techniques are employed?
(a) Sibilance and synechdoche.
(b) Metonymy and assonance.
(c) Assonance and alliteration.
(d) Synechdoche and metonymy.

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

13. What kind of landscape has the traveler been traveling through?
(a) Swampland.
(b) Desert.
(c) Savannah.
(d) Mountains.

14. What does Ozymandias hope to inspire in his audience?
(a) Confidence and ambition.
(b) Awe and fear.
(c) Reverence and respect.
(d) Anxiety and suspicion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

2. Whose "passions" are referred to in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?

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

4. Which technique is evident in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?

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

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