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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "Ozymandias" lines 1-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What technique is employed in the poem's final two lines, "Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare/ The lone and level sands stretch far away”?
(a) Antithesis.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Asyndeton.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

2. How many voices are heard in "Ozymandias"?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

3. Whose "passions" are referred to in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?
(a) The speaker's.
(b) The traveler's.
(c) The sculptor's.
(d) Ozymandias's.

4. What does Ozymandias's quote imply should be standing around the statue?
(a) Military weaponry.
(b) Monuments and buildings.
(c) The graves of enemy kings.
(d) Gold and treasure.

5. What is the likely purpose of capitalizing "Works" (line 11) and "Wreck" (line 13)?
(a) To draw the reader's attention to the consonant rhyme.
(b) To draw the reader's attention to the alliteration in these lines.
(c) To convey a sense of Ozymandias's hubris.
(d) To stress that these are one and the same thing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What title does Ozymandias give himself in the statue's inscription?

2. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what does the word "visage" refer to?

3. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

4. Whose hand is being referred to in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?

5. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

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