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

2. What kind of landscape has the traveler been traveling through?
(a) Mountains.
(b) Savannah.
(c) Swampland.
(d) Desert.

3. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?
(a) Villanelle.
(b) Sonnet.
(c) Ballade.
(d) Rondeau.

4. What does Ozymandias hope to inspire in his audience?
(a) Anxiety and suspicion.
(b) Reverence and respect.
(c) Awe and fear.
(d) Confidence and ambition.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what techniques are employed?

3. What part of the statue's face does the traveler describe?

4. What is the rhyme scheme of "Ozymandias"?

5. What technique is used in line 8, "The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed"?

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