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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. Which is the best description of the statue's expression?

3. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

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

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

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