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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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) Alliteration.
(d) Asyndeton.

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

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

11. 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) The sculptor's talent.
(d) Physical characteristics.

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

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

14. 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."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which lines contain caesuras?

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

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

4. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what does the word "visage" refer to?

5. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

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