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| English 11th Poem 8: Ozymandias Questions Bank |
English 1st Year Poem 8 Ozymandias Questions Bank
MCQs
Please select the right answer.
1. A shattered visage lies with a frown and wrinkled lip. Here the word frown means
2. A shattered visage lies, half-sunk in the sand. Here the word shattered means
3. And on the pedestal the words appear .Here the word pedestal means
4. And wrinkled, and sneer of old command. Here the word wrinkled, means
5. Half sunk, a shattered visage lies .Here the word visage means
6. His name was written on the
7. I met a traveller from an antique
8. I met a traveller from an antique land. Here the word antique means
9. Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! .Here the word despair! means
10. Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! .Here the word Mighty means
11. My name is Ozymandias, King of
12. Of that colossal wreck boundless and
13. Of that colossal wreck boundless and bare. Here the word wreck means
14. Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bore. Here the word colossal means
15. On his statue Ozymandias addressed
16. Ozymandias was a
17. Tell that its sculptor well those passions read. Here the word sculptor means
18. The hand of the artist
19. The head was lying near half sunk in
20. The King claimed to be
21. The King's heart fed on
22. The King's visage was lying in the sand.
23. The land that mocks them, and the heart that fed. Here the word mocks means
24. The poet met a
25. The sculptor the King's passions on stone.
26. The shattered visage has a sneer of cold command. Here the word cold means
27. The statue was made by a
28. The traveller belonged to an ancient
29. The traveller saw standing in the desert.
30. The traveller saw a in the desert
31. The wreck of the statue was
32. There was a of the dead King.
33. Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the
34. Two vast and trunkless legs of stone. Here the word trunkless means
35. Which yet survive stamped on these lifeless things. Here the word survive means
Short Questions
1. Give a short character sketch of Ozymandias?
2. What did the traveler see in the desert?
3. What did the traveler tell the poet?
4. What is the theme/central idea of the poem Ozymandias?
5. What was the condition of statue?
6. What was the condition of the face of statue?
7. What was the written on the pedestal of the statue?
8. Why should the Mighty get disappointed to look at the works of Ozymandias?
Long Questions
"1. Explain the following lines with reference to the context:
I met a traveller from anantique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert…. Near them, on the stand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,"
"2. Explain the following lines with reference to the context:
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:"
"3. Explain the following lines with reference to the context:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my work, ye mighty and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
O that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch away."