Ozymandias: Plot and Intentions

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

• a writer

• a king

• a sculptor

• a traveller

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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What is this poem mostly about?

• A powerful king poses for a sculptor to create a statue of him out of stone.

• A traveller journeys through antique lands and faraway deserts.

• A traveller finds a vast sculpture of a king lying shattered in a bare desert.

• A king is found dead in the bare desert by a traveller passing through.

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

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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In Ozymandias, where has the statue been found?

• In the desert
• In the forest
• In a deserted city
• By the sea

What is the 'visage' in the poem, Ozymandias?

• The face of the statue
• The feet of the statue
• The hands of the statue
• The eyes of the statue

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