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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Alliteration.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what techniques are employed?

2. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

3. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

4. Which lines contain caesuras?

5. What title does Ozymandias give himself in the statue's inscription?

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