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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 8 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Alliteration.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of landscape has the traveler been traveling through?

2. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

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

4. How many voices are heard in "Ozymandias"?

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"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the epithet that Ozymandias gives himself help the reader understand the intentions behind his quote?

2. Explain the irony of the poem's ending.

3. What claims does the poem make about the statue's sculptor?

4. What poetic techniques create impact in the line, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies" (line 4)?

5. Identify the three voices heard in "Ozymandias."

6. How does the poem's setting support its main point?

7. Briefly summarize the action of the poem.

8. Describe the poem's form.

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