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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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”?
(a) Antithesis.
(b) Asyndeton.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

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

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

5. 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"?
(a) Personality and emotion.
(b) The history of a king.
(c) Physical characteristics.
(d) The sculptor's talent.

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

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

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

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

10. What is the likely purpose of capitalizing "Works" (line 11) and "Wreck" (line 13)?
(a) To draw the reader's attention to the alliteration in these lines.
(b) To convey a sense of Ozymandias's hubris.
(c) To stress that these are one and the same thing.
(d) To draw the reader's attention to the consonant rhyme.

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

12. 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.

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In line 1, what word does the speaker use to describe the land where the traveler has been?

5. What part of the statue's face does the traveler describe?

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