Ozymandias & Nothing Gold Can Stay Quiz

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

• a writer

• a king

• a sculptor

• a traveler

Which words and phrases best contribute to a sense of setting?

• boundless, bare, and lone and level sands

• shattered, decay, and wreck

• half sunk, lifeless things, and colossal

• legs of stone, cold command, and despair

The person 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."

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

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

What is this poem mostly about?

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

• B. A traveler journeys through antique lands and faraway deserts.

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

• D. A king is found dead in the bare desert by a traveler 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?

• A. outlast

• B. coexist

• C. live

• D. display

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

• the traveler

• the sculptor

• the speaker

• Ozymandias

What words appear on the pedestal of the sculpture?

Which of the following best identifies as the theme in the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay"?

• Love is unpredictable and inconsistent.

• The most beautiful moments of life are brief.

• Perfection and paradise are unattainable.

• It is dangerous to forget that we will all die at some point.

What does the color "gold" most likely represent in the poem?

• the speaker's greed

• the speaker's dreams

• the slow passage of time

• the fleeting nature of beauty