"Ozymandias" Poem R.C.

Line 1 of the poem states: I met a traveler from an antique land.

What is the best meaning of the word antique as it is used in this sentence?

• ancient

• frail

• powerful

• foreign

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What part of the statue is mentioned as still standing?

• the arms

• the head

• the legs

• the crown

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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?

• happy

• small

• powerful

• bare

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Which words and phrases from the poem best contribute to a sense of setting around the sculpture?

• shattered, decay, and wreck

• half sunk, lifeless things, and colossal

• legs of stone, cold command, and despair

• boundless, bare, and lone and level sands

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Where is the statue of Ozymandias located?

• In a museum

• In a city

• in the desert

• in a jungle

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

• a writer

• a sculptor

• a king

• a traveler

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The poet believes that the artist who created the sculpture did not think highly of Ozymandias.  What evidence from the text supports this conclusion?

• “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Stand in the desert...Near them, on the sand, / Half sunk, a shattered visage lies”

• “Round the decay / Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away.

• “And on the pedestal these words appear: / 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings’”

• “its sculptor well those passions read / Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, / The hand that mocked them”

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Use the following lines to answer the question below:

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, the word “survive” most nearly means

• outlast

• live

• display

• coexist

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In the poem, who or what gets the final word?

• the traveler

• the sculptor

• time

• space

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Which of the following statements best describes this poem?

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

• A traveler journeys through ancient lands and faraway deserts.

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

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

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