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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

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

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

6. 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 draw the reader's attention to the consonant rhyme.
(c) To convey a sense of Ozymandias's hubris.
(d) To stress that these are one and the same thing.

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

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

9. 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.

10. Which lines contain caesuras?
(a) Lines 11 and 12.
(b) Lines 8 and 9.
(c) Lines 2 and 3.
(d) Lines 5 and 6.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

2. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

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 techniques are employed?

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

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