Knowledge Quiz - 'Ozymandias'

Based on the information in the poem, who was Ozymandias?

• a writer

• a king

• a sculptor

• a traveler

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Based on the information in the poem, what was Ozymandias’s kingdom probably like at the time the sculpture was created?

• powerful

• happy

• small

• bare

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Read these lines from the poem:

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:

Based on the poem as a whole, whom does “the heart that fed” refer to?

• the traveler

• the sculptor

• the speaker

• Ozymandias

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Read these lines from the poem:

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed

In these lines, what does the word “survive” most nearly mean?

• outlast

• coexist

• live

• display

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What words appear on the pedestal of the sculpture?

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Who wrote Ozymandias?

• Percy Shelley
• Samuel Taylor Colderidge
• William Wordsworth
• Lord Byron

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How was the poet of Ozymandias perceived by his contemporaries?

• As a radical
• As kind
• As aggressive
• As shy

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Who is the poem Ozymandias about?

• Pharaoh Ramases II
• Pharaoh Ramases I
• Adolf Hitler
• Winston Churchill

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Who is the poet criticising in Ozymandias?

• Powerful leaders who think they are invincible
• Powerful leaders who rule for many years
• People who ruin statues
• Leaders who do not do much work

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What form does the poem 'Ozymandias' take?

• Sonnet
• Lyric
• Ode
• Ballad

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