Ozymandias MCQs with Answers from CBSE Class 10 English Literature Reader (Communicative) Book Chapter 9
Ozymandias MCQs of Class 10 English Chapter 9, by Percy Bysshe Shelley have been compiled for students to practice. Students of Class 10 can prepare the MCQs of Chapter 9 Ozymandias from CBSE Class 10 English Literature Reader (Communicative) Book. Each question has four options.
For Correct Answers, see the answer key given at the end of the post.
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Q1. Who composed the poem ‘Ozymandias’?
A. William Wordsworth
B. William Shakespeare
C. John Milton
D. PB Shelley
Q2. The speaker met a ______
A. king
B. sculptor
C. poet
D. traveller
Q3. The legs of stone belong to the statue of _____
A. dinosaur
B. giraffe
C. human
D. none of these
Q4. What does ‘trunkless’ mean?
A. without the feet
B. without the face
C. without the upper half body
D. all of these
Q5. What is a visage?
A. face
B. chest
C. head
D. none of these
Q6. Which of the following describes the legs?
A. last
B. vast
C. past
D. none of these
Q7. Who / what has the expressions of sneer?
A. the sculptor
B. the poet
C. the stone visage
D. the traveller
Q8. From where / whom were the expression of cold command copied?
A. a photo
B. the king’s face
C. imagination
D. none of these
Q9. What are the ‘lifeless things’?
A. statues
B. land
C. antiques
D. none of these
Q10. In ‘The Hand that mocked them’, whose hand is it?
A. poet’s
B. sculptor’s
C. king’s
D. all of these
Q11. In ‘The heart that fed’, whose heart is it?
A. poet’s
B. sculptor’s
C. king’s
D. all of these
Q12. What figure of speech is used-
“The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed”
A. metaphor
B. simile
C. synechdoche
D. alliteration
Q13. What figure of speech is used-
“And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command”
A. metaphor
B. simile
C. synechdoche
D. alliteration
Q14. What figure of speech is used-
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings”
A. metaphor
B. simile
C. hyperbole
D. antithesis
Q15. What yet survives?
A. the statue
B. the king
C. the king’s facial expressions
D. the traveller’s memory
Q16. What does ‘colossal’ mean?
A. great
B. small
C. broken
D. ancient
Q17. wreck means ______
A. bad behaviour
B. broken parts
C. unfair means
D. none of these
Q18. What is the ‘decay’ referred in the poem?
A. decay of dead body
B. decay of statue
C. decay of tooth
D. none of these
Q19. What does ‘bare’ mean?
A. naked
B. empty
C. full
D. tempted
Q20. The visage is half sunk in ____
A. sea
B. river
C. desert
D. pond
Q21. What is the king’s name?
A. Jazz
B. Ozymandias
C. Tutankhamen
D. All of these
Q22. What is the irony?
A. the words inscribed on the pedestal and the ruined statue
B. the expressions on the visage and the true nature of king Ozymandias
C. the hardwork of the sculptor and his meagre pay
D. none of these
Q23. Which ‘antique land’ is talked of?
A. Arabia
B. Egypt
C. India
D. None of these
Q24. Where did the sculptor read the passions?
A. in a book
B. in a map
C. on the king’s face
D. in the mirror
Q25. Which of the following adjectives are suitable for king Ozymandias?
1. Cold
2. Compassionate
3. Generous
4. Scornful
A. 1, 2, 3, 4
B. 1, 4
C. 2, 3
D. None of these
Q26. What figure of speech is used-
‘The lone and level sands stretch far away.’
A. metaphor
B. simile
C. alliteration
D. antithesis
Q27. What figure of speech is used-
‘Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.’
A. enjambment
B. metaphor
C. alliteration
D. hyperbole
Q28. Find a synonym of ‘stamped’.
A. engraved
B. charged
C. fined
D. taxed
Q29. What type of poem is it?
A. ballad
B. epigraph
C. epitaph
D. sonnet
Q30. What is the rhyme scheme?
A. AABBA CCDDC CDCD
B. ABCBC DEDEF EEFF
C. ABABA CDCED EFEF
D. None of these
Answer key
| 1 | D | 16 | A |
| 2 | D | 17 | B |
| 3 | C | 18 | B |
| 4 | C | 19 | B |
| 5 | A | 20 | C |
| 6 | B | 21 | B |
| 7 | C | 22 | A |
| 8 | B | 23 | B |
| 9 | A | 24 | C |
| 10 | B | 25 | B |
| 11 | C | 26 | C |
| 12 | C | 27 | A |
| 13 | D | 28 | A |
| 14 | C | 29 | D |
| 15 | C | 30 | C |
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