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

2. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

2. 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"?

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”?

4. What does Ozymandias's quote imply should be standing around the statue?

5. What is the likely purpose of capitalizing "Works" (line 11) and "Wreck" (line 13)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe the poem's form.

5. Briefly summarize the action of the poem.

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

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

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

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